Adulthood Quotes - Page 9

• The onset of adulthood is an organic, creeping process. No one wakes up one day and decides, 'Lo, on this day I shall forever put away childish things and begin clipping coupons to go to Wal-Mart.'

  David Carr

  Forever, One Day, Wake Up

  David Carr (2012). “The Night of the Gun”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• At the opening of the Odyssey, Telemachus, inspired by the male-born Athena, searches for his father by turning against his mother. Jesus too publicly spurns his mother to be about his father's business. Male adulthood begins with the breaking of female chains.

  Camille Paglia

  Mother, Jesus, Father

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae”, p.119, Yale University Press

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• Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.

  Alan Hirsch

  Christian, Bored, Church

  "The Faith of Leap: Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage (Shapevine)". Book by Alan Hirsch and Michael Frost, 2011.

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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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• When I was in college, I remember fearing that the dreary grind of adulthood would feature infinitely more existential dread than frat parties had, but the opposite has been true for me. I'm much less likely to feel that gnawing fear of aimlessness and nihilism than I used to be and that's partly because education gave me job opportunities, but it's mostly because education gave me perspective and context.

  John Green

  Education, Jobs, Party

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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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• Life is not what you expected it to be.

  Lauren Bacall

  Life Is, Expected

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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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• People often say that you should never work with child actors. I think that's all wrong. Children have not had the imagination kicked out of them by life experience and adulthood. So, they still are very much alive with that kind of magical thinking which enables an actor to believe they're in these circumstances and make them real to you.

  Nicolas Cage

  Children, Real, Believe

  "Knowing - Nicolas Cage interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Most grown people are like icebergs, three-tenths showing, seven-tenths submerged - that is why a collision with one of them is unexpectedly hurtful.

  Rumer Godden

  People, Hurtful, Three

  Rumer Godden (2011). “The Greengage Summer”, p.8, Pan Macmillan

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• I kinda came into my manhood, or what I thought was my adulthood, early. I had to show up, and I had to make sure I had gas money, food money, rent money, clothes money - everything was on me, startin' at that age, so that's what led me to start hustlin', that's what led me to start to try to find ways to fend for myself. And once I did that, I was full-time, bein' in the street, and, bein' in the street, it's cold. It's the way the streets operate, and you have to adapt to that.

  Nipsey Hussle

  Clothes, Age, Trying

  Source: djbooth.net

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• Research in education has shown that we remember field trips long into adulthood. I remember visiting the post office in second grade and looking at the sorting machine. I have vivid memories of that, when I don't even remember the name of the teacher who took me.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Teacher, Memories, Names

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The sad discovery of the adult world was the permanent truth: you don't always do what you want to do; you do what you must.

  Helen Clark MacInnes

  Discovery, Adults, World

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• I think that more and more young people are discovering that gainful employment isn't the only thing in life. That they can perhaps be just as useful to society and themselves by travelling across the land or around the world, learning more about humanity and going through the various experiences which will make their adulthood more productive.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Thinking, Land, Things In Life

  Source: presbyterianrecord.ca

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• Our children shouldn't have to wait for adulthood to become wild readers. For many, it will be too late.

  Donalyn Miller

  Children, Waiting, Too Late

  Donalyn Miller (2013). “Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits”, p.30, John Wiley & Sons

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• I've heard this before from people: early 20s kind of screws with your head a little bit because you're transitioning into adulthood and actually becoming an adult with responsibilities and paying bills. So all of a sudden, it's like you're responsible now.

  Dan Byrd

  Responsibility, People, Littles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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