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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. — Meg Cabot

Being silly is still allowed, not excluded by adulthood. What's excluded by adulthood is thoughtlessness, so be thoughtful and silly — Hank Green

I regret my childhood was cut so short by my adulthood. — Joseph DiFrancesco

The Internet is still in its infancy. When it reaches adulthood, the Internet will change how we live and work. — Kambiz Mostofizadeh

If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils. — P.D. James

Yet Betty would learn among the black Muslims that any black person clever or lucky enough to reach adulthood must choose between slumber and strugle. — Russell J. Rickford

With adulthood comes responsibility. — Mary Lydon Simonsen

The more I dealt with adults, the less I wanted to be one. — Alan Bradley

It's hard to have done all one's growing up since 33 - but that's a damn sight better than not growing up at all. — H.P. Lovecraft

children spend their time for they think they have more time; adults cry over their time for they see they have less time — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

New York grabbed me too hard, as did adulthood. — Ira Sachs

Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value. — Albert Einstein

Now that I'm feeling the responsibilities of adulthood, the choices we make become an incredible weight. — Laura Marling

Once you've raised a child to adulthood, you can only be as demanding as your offspring allow. — Mariella Frostrup

This one-way rocket to Death in Adulthood" "Normal Time" in New California Writing — Michael Chabon

A car is a big thing for anyone going into adulthood, it's a big seminal moment. — Michael Bay

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. — Bill Watterson

They had entered the thorny wilderness, and the golden gates of their childhood had for ever closed behind them. — George Eliot

You couldn't learn age, but adulthood was there for all. — Toni Morrison

The definition of adulthood is that you want to sleep. — Paula Poundstone

One of my most important 'Secrets of Adulthood': Outer order contributes to inner calm. — Gretchen Rubin

Children take joy in their work and sometimes as adults we forget that's something we should continue doing. — Ashley Ormon

Welcome to adulthood," she said. "It sucks as much as high school. — Sarah Dessen

Unresolved issues from childhood revisit us in adulthood. — Kilroy J. Oldster

The monsters were never under our bed, but in the forest our future. — Crystal Woods

Being an adult means accepting those situations where no action is possible. — John D. MacDonald

It wasn't who I had wanted to become, but simply who I was comfortable being. — Wendy Owens

Love and spiritual values received from parents are the strongest assets for a child to face the various trials of adulthood. — Mata Amritanandamayi

Children are the closest we have to wisdom, and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them. — Simon Van Booy

Forgiveness is what makes adults different to children: children just forget, adults forgive. — Tim Relf

A pony is a childhood dream. A horse is an adulthood treasure. — Rebecca Carroll

For women in this era, it seemed that marriage was the easiest way of acquiring the basic freedoms of adulthood. Things — Aziz Ansari

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

Not old enough to feel like an adult , really, but old enough to look like one, and to know the distinction between being carefree and careless. — Gregory Maguire

Gods are children's blankets that get carried over into adulthood. — James Randi

The vast majority of incest begins years before the earliest conceivable age of consent. p4 — Judith Lewis Herman

Adaptability is one of the strengths that vaults a person into adulthood. — Henry Cloud

For us, it's all progress from infancy to adulthood - language, walking, winking, sex. — Rowan Jacobsen

Adulthood brings with it a pernicious illusion of control. — Juan Gabriel

Inside my house, nobody was home, except everybody, but it was easy to feel like those were one and the same. — Alison Espach

It could be that everyone who lives to adulthood dies one hit at a time. Only children like Stan die suddenly. — Ernie Wood

I keep returning to the central question facing over-50 women as we move into our Second Adulthood. What are our goals for this stage in our lives? — Gail Sheehy

I wanted to give you advice. Adults are always doing that; it's one of their occupational hazards. — Maia Wojciechowska

I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older and now I'm spending my adulthood wishing I were younger. — Ricky Schroder

You see, I don't think age matters so much as people think. Parts of me are still 12 and I think other parts were already 50 when I was 12 ... . — C.S. Lewis

Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed. — Ellen Goodman

It was so naive to think that there was nothing interesting that happened after 55. Come on, there's a whole second adulthood! — Gail Sheehy

You can't guide someone into adulthood. The experiences are unique to each person. Deanna Troi — Star Trek: The Next Generation Episode Guide Team

Adulthood can do the most horrific things to the best of people. — Neal Shusterman

Adulthood is accretive by nature, a thing which arrives in ragged stages and uneven overlaps. — Stephen King

The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood. — Germaine Greer

Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self. — John Fowles

Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I don't feel everybody can connect to. — John Darnielle

A return to Childhood will rid the Evils of Adulthood — Jason Duncan

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence. — Bruce Springsteen

That's how screwed up you are, I thought. Your idea of adulthood still comes from picturebooks. — Gillian Flynn

A person can have a happy and fulfilling life without children. — Judy Blume

The day you graduate from childhood to adulthood is the day you take full responsibility for your life. — Darren Hardy

In the book, you lost your powers. In the movie, you chose not to use them as much. I guess I did a little of both. — Mara Wilson

Play itself is a primary process, not a luxury, not a hobby, but something all children must do to survive into adulthood. — Sarah Ruhl

But what she had always imagined were the two basic ingredients of happy adulthood, intellectual companionship and thrilling sex, are missing too. — Charlotte Mendelson

Meeting your obligations is the definition of adulthood, kid. If you're going to make mistakes and break promises, now's the time. — Nicola Yoon

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent. — Socrates

Human Millipede 6 was the highest-grossing movie of the summer and returned Nicholas Cage to Oscar-winning status. — C.Z. Hazard

Life is not what you expected it to be. — Lauren Bacall

I'm pretty squeaky clean. No big tragedies in my childhood or adolescence or adulthood. I've had a very easygoing, simple life. — Vera Farmiga

...our familiar features rinsed in weird adulthood. — Jennifer Egan

But adulthood slipped up on you, she thought. It was forced on you whether you liked it or not. — Cinda Williams Chima

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. — Richard Griffiths

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age. — Walter Savage Landor

Feeling better doesn't come from avoiding adulthood, it comes from investing in adulthood. — Meg Jay

[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. — Dylan Moran

I always thought eating what you wanted was one of those aspects of adulthood to be looked forward to when you were a child. — Graydon Carter

Nothing. You need nothing. I provide you with what you need, and what I don't provide, you don't need. Think of it as a vacation from adulthood. — C.D. Reiss

Never tell a child that something it's too hard — Mitch Albom

People evolve and it's important to not stop evolving just because you've reached 'adulthood.' — J.K. Simmons

War defined my entire childhood and youth and most of my adulthood too - and in the US, it continues to do so. — Ru Freeman

For many of us, owning a home signaled a passage into adulthood that coincided with the start of a career and family. — Ben Bernanke

Honey, people never grow up. Adulthood is just high school with Restylane. You of all people should know that by now. Toodles, bitch! — @SororityProblem

Be absolutely assured that we will die long before our own deaths if we ever allow the fear of adulthood to kill the wonder of childhood. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Childhood is what you spend your entire adulthood trying to get over. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark. — Nicholson Baker

And at twelve, heading for adulthood, a child fears that the way she is at that moment is all she's ever going to be. — Jane Yolen

Someone wise told me recently that Adulting was hard. My response: TRUE STORY — Sonya Watson

It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood. — Chris Van Hollen

Treasure the beauty of youthful life and the wisdom of adulthood. — Lailah Gifty Akita

As a man begins to understand the sacrifices he must make to live the life he dreams of, he often loses his courage for such a life. — Josie Sigler

You will never win anyone through pity. You must create the right kind of dream, the sober, adult kind of magic: illusion born from disillusion. — Sylvia Plath

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them. — Dr. Seuss

Kids who enter 'adulthood' without any strong attachments to people who know and care about them have a rough road ahead, to say the least. — Rhea Perlman

If this was adulthood, the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that now she could eat dessert without eating her vegetables. — Lisa Alther

You know what the worst thing about adults is?"

"No."

"They're not always adults. But that's what I like about them. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood. — Louise J. Kaplan

Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood. — Adam Phillips

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

The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour. — L.M. Montgomery

Damn adulthood. He wanted to send it back for a full refund. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Caught in the moorless place between young adulthood and middle age, we were just learning how to forgive ourselves. — Chloe Benjamin