Top 392 Adulthood Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 16, 2025.
I can see why you opted out of Knight training,” I countered. “They’d have ‘accidentally’ killed you before you made it to adulthood.
It's never too late to move to a good place to try to improve your child's outcomes in adulthood.
I love fashion. I always have. When I was a kid, I was in almost full-on costumes when I went to school, and I've retained a bit of that in my adulthood.
At 13 I was someone that didn't have a personality yet. It's a fascinating period in a human life. It's so exciting because you are in between childhood and adulthood.
We need to teach our children empathy and care and love and communication and social responsibility in preparation for adulthood.
Adulthood is knowing that a fully realized character is always more important than the lines.
Probably the most important thing in terms of just trying to navigate and moving forward into adulthood is staying busy.
Our children shouldn't have to wait for adulthood to become wild readers. For many, it will be too late.
Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.
Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.
Kids don't shuffle along in unison on the road to maturity. They slouch toward adulthood at an uneven, highly individual pace.
Martin Wilson's What They Always Tell Us hears the voices of the young as they struggle toward adulthood.
Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence
Even in early adulthood, men can't be told what to wear; they can only be subtly moved by example, encouragement, and a generally sophisticated atmosphere.
One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ...and accepts his sentence undismayed.
For many of us, owning a home signaled a passage into adulthood that coincided with the start of a career and family.
I know end might be near as this is only day of my adulthood I’ve seen my mother and she hasn’t asked, ‘Why that shirt?’
A surprising number of scientific advances have been made and masterpieces of art created by individuals just on the threshold of adulthood.
Thanksgiving, our eminent moral holiday, doesnt have much for children. At its heart are conversation, food, drink, and fellowship - all perks of adulthood.
It was so naive to think that there was nothing interesting that happened after 55. Come on, there's a whole second adulthood!
It was quite a blow to have my perfect image of my father shattered, but that's something we all face before we come to full adulthood.
Adulthood feels like walking around in the desert with a bag over your head, being bumped into by people who rob you as they bore you.
I don't think I'd have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I'd known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed.
I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood.
The most significant and alarming consequence of early maturation is an increased risk for breast cancer in adulthood.
It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood.
Love and spiritual values received from parents are the strongest assets for a child to face the various trials of adulthood.
The ability and willingness to keep two opposing views in mind at the same time are hallmarks of adulthood.
We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness.
I had low blood sugar, a chemical imbalance, plus the normal nervous breakdown everyone goes through from adolescence to adulthood.
We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be an adult. Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
Adulthood has something to do with not choosing any of the pure points of view, but living about half of what you really want to live.
I went from being a beanpole - like a normal kid of the 1950s - and exploded. The weight piled on and didn't stop until into my adulthood.
As human beings, we all mature physically from childhood to adolescence and then into adulthood, but our emotions lag behind.
I thought of myself as an adult trapped in a kid's body. Had I known what adulthood was like, I would have embraced childhood a little more.
My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood.
Has it ever occurred to you that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into adulthood? Usually kicking and screaming?
Although I was well past my teenage troubles, our music was specifically designed to lubricate the passage from adolescence to adulthood.
I'm fascinated to see the future of social media and also how the generation who grew up with it will evolve into adulthood.
I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that. Don't rush into adulthood, it isn't all that much fun.
I have watched as a people and as a country and a culture over the course of my teenage-into-adulthood life, and I do still think there is a tremendous amount of homophobia that exists.
My hero in adulthood would be Michael Bryant, who's dead, bless him. His memory lives on. He was an actor at the National, and a wonderful man.
War defined my entire childhood and youth and most of my adulthood too - and in the US, it continues to do so.
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
Adolescence is a border between childhood and adulthood. Like all borders, it's teeming with energy and fraught with danger.
The models of adulthood are disappearing fast. How can two people have a new marriage if neither of them is an adult?
I didn't have a dysfunctional childhood or young adulthood, but I was somebody who was very much raised to do what other people told me to do as a person.
Whoa. If high school was suppose to be the best years of my life - at least so far - I was truly destined to have a sucky adulthood.
I always thought eating what you wanted was one of those aspects of adulthood to be looked forward to when you were a child.
Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I dont feel everybody can connect to.
I'm pretty squeaky clean. No big tragedies in my childhood or adolescence or adulthood. I've had a very easygoing, simple life.
What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness.
Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I don't feel everybody can connect to.
the teenage zone: the stage when an adolescent's brain synapses quit firing while the rest of their body races toward adulthood.
Acting was definitely a comfortable place. It didn't force me into adulthood because I was ready to be independent.
I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?
Thanksgiving, our eminent moral holiday, doesn't have much for children. At its heart are conversation, food, drink, and fellowship - all perks of adulthood.
I went from living in my dad's basement to moving to New York. So I never had that middle ground of easing into adulthood.
Many people don't have relationships to their siblings in adulthood, or they have superficial ones. It's sort of unfashionable, particularly in America, to be close to your family.
