Adulthood Quotes - Page 8

• Here in America, marriage still has a mystical, intangible power: It is a passport to adulthood and respectability and to a certain extent citizenship. Any relationship less than "married" is considered temporary and not worthy of honor.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  America, Honor, Married

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• It's never too late to move to a good place to try to improve your child's outcomes in adulthood.

  Gwen Ifill

  Children, Moving, Trying

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Our rising generation is worthy of our best efforts to support and strengthen them in their journey to adulthood. … In every action we take, in every place we go, with every Latter-day Saint young person we meet, we need to have an increased awareness of the need for strengthening, nurturing, and being an influence for good in their lives

  Ronald A. Rasband

  Journey, Best Effort, Support

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• If the behaviour of babies and small children is any guide, we emerge into the world with our tendencies to imbalance already well entrenched. In our playpens and high chairs, we are rarely far from displaying either hysterical happiness or savage disappointment, love or rage, mania or exhaustion--and, despite the growth of a more temperate exterior in adulthood, we seldom succeed in laying claim to lasting equilibrium, traversing our lives like stubbornly listing ships on choppy seas.

  Alain de Botton

  Baby, Disappointment, Children

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• I tried to take a few community college classes, but it got in the way of music, so I stopped. I had real life college and traveling on the road college. It's like a segue into adulthood, like living on your own for the first time.

  Alex Winston

  Real, College, Community

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For me the greatest revenge of all is having a happy adulthood, waking up in my gorgeous turquoise bedroom in the morning beside a person who really inspires me. That's the best revenge a girl-loving-girl from the Bible belt could possibly have. And, importantly, it's healthy.

  Beth Ditto

  Girl, Morning, Revenge

  "What would Beth Ditto do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. November 9, 2007.

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• I grew up in a family of Republicans. And when I was 18 and registering to vote, my mom’s only instruction was ‘You just go in and pull the big Republican lever.’ That’s my welcome to adulthood. She’s like, ‘No, don’t even read it. Just pull the Republican lever.

  Tina Fey

  Mom, Levers, Welcome

  "What Tina Wants". Interview with Maureen Dowd, www.vanityfair.com. January 2009.

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• A central theme of all about love is that from childhood into adulthood we are often taught misguided and false assumptions about the nature of love. Perhaps the most common false assumption about love is that love means we will not be challenged or changed.

  Bell Hooks

  Mean, Love Is, Childhood

  "Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". www.lionsroar.com. March 24, 2017.

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• We all can think of at least one kid who had great parents, a great family, and an all-around great childhood...who suddenly went crazy as soon as he left the house for college or adulthood. And nobody can figure out how or why it happened!

  Andy Andrews

  Crazy, Kids, College

  "The Noticer Returns | An Interview With Andy Andrews". Interview with Matt Ham, mattham.com. October 3, 2013.

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• The moment you decide that you're a grownup now, and therefore must put away foolish things like staying out all night or cruising down strange highways is the moment you will lose that ineffable glow of youth. If you don't believe me, look around. Study those people who would rather go to shopping malls than dance halls, who think the height of depravity is bidding two no trump with only fifteen points. Every single one of these people has a stringy neck.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Believe, Thinking, Night

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• the teenage zone: the stage when an adolescent's brain synapses quit firing while the rest of their body races toward adulthood.

  Becky Freeman

  Teenage, Race, Brain

  Becky Freeman (1998). “The Best of Becky Freeman”, Inspirational Press

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• Thanksgiving, our eminent moral holiday, doesnt have much for children. At its heart are conversation, food, drink, and fellowship - all perks of adulthood.

  Rosecrans Baldwin

  Children, Heart, Holiday

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• Just try to stay a child as long as you can. Don't force into adulthood.

  Michael Jackson

  Children, Long, Trying

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• The definition of adulthood is that you want to sleep.

  Paula Poundstone

  Sleep, Definitions, Want

  "At 59, What is My Favorite Cheap Thrill?" by Roz Warren, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 26, 2013.

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• No parent is perfect; we all can look back and think of things we could've done to help our children be better prepared for adulthood. And sometimes it's best to admit it to them and encourage them to learn from our mistakes.

  Billy Graham

  Children, Mistake, Thinking

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• The 60s were a continuation of the 50s much more than people realized. Certainly in some countries, like Britain, there was still a culture of deference, whereas in the 70s we really are in a time of angry transition. The generation that came into young adulthood in the 70s couldn't find jobs; that wasn't true in my generation. They entered a time when two depressing things hit them both at the same time.

  Tony Judt

  Country, Depressing, People

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• Nothing ensures the success of the child more in the society than being read to from infancy to young adulthood. Reading books to and with children is the single most important thing a parent, grandparent, or significant adult can do.

  Anita Silvey

  Children, Book, Reading

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• One of the tragedies of our day is that too many boys are growing up without guidance of a father, or another man, to show them what it looks like to do away with that boyhood stuff. As a result, they often move into adolescence and then adulthood looking like men but still speaking, reasoning, and behaving like boys.

  Dennis Rainey

  Growing Up, Father, Moving

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• God knows it's a sign of a really sick mind to see grown people, adults with responsibilities, wearing class rings.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Responsibility, Class, People

  Nikki Giovanni (1988). “Sacred cows-- and other edibles”, William Morrow & Co

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• One of the loveliest things about being grown up is the knowledge that never again will I have to go through the miserable business of performing in Mrs. Smedley's Annual Piano Recital at McKinleyville's First Presbyterian Church.

  Peg Bracken

  Piano, Church, Firsts

  Peg Bracken (1982). “A Window Over the Sink”, Avon Books

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• The struggle to be considered a grown-up begins, I believe, shortly after birth.

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Believe, Struggle, Birth

  Wendy Wasserstein (1991). “Bachelor Girls”, Vintage

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• [Adulthood:] It's when you stop doing the stuff you have to make excuses for and when you stop making excuses for the stuff you have to do.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Stuff, Excuse, Stop Making Excuses

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• where families suffer from disasters that are preventable, this is a measure of a whole nation's neglect. A society imperils its own future when, out of negligence or contempt, it overlooks the need of children to be reared in a family ... or when, in the midst of plenty, some families cannot give their children adequate food and shelter, safe activity and rest, and an opportunity to grow into full adulthood as people who can care for and cherish other human beings like themselves.

  Margaret Mead

  Family, Children, Opportunity

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• I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.

  Anne Tyler

  Book, Childhood, Waiting

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• Let's face it: part of being a grownup is that every day you have to choose between going out at night or staying home, and it is one of life's unhappy truths that there is not enough time to do both.

  Nora Ephron

  Home, Night, Unhappy

  Nora Ephron (1991). “Nora Ephron Collected”

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