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Adulthood is hell.
Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.
Life is not what you expected it to be.
Growing up is loving what you can afford to.
New York grabbed me too hard, as did adulthood.
I've spent my entire adulthood in pro football.
Marriage is such a mark of adulthood in my mind.
Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.
It's rather hard to decide just when people are grown up.
Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.
Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.
gods are children's blankets that get carried over into adulthood.
'Star Wars' boils down to the transition from adolescence into adulthood.
one of the blessings of adulthood is that one is no longer addressed as a thing.
The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.
In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark.
One of my most important 'Secrets of Adulthood': Outer order contributes to inner calm.
For me adulthood is realising that there are no grown-ups and everyone else is winging it.
People evolve and it's important to not stop evolving just because you've reached 'adulthood.'
Once you've raised a child to adulthood, you can only be as demanding as your offspring allow.
When I came into my adulthood, I recognized how fortunate I was to be doing what I loved to do.
I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood.
College and the responsibilities that came with it helped me transition from teenager to adulthood.
I believe I owe all the best parts of my adulthood to embracing my imperfections and showcasing them.
Now that I'm feeling the responsibilities of adulthood, the choices we make become an incredible weight.
I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older and now I'm spending my adulthood wishing I were younger.
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
You think that adulthood will hit and you'll suddenly be more capable. But that doesn't happen, ever, does it?
It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood.
Parents who press their children to succeed do so in hopes of preparing them for an adulthood of high achievement.
For many of us, owning a home signaled a passage into adulthood that coincided with the start of a career and family.
Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I don't feel everybody can connect to.
The most significant and alarming consequence of early maturation is an increased risk for breast cancer in adulthood.
What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness.
One of my 'Secrets of Adulthood' is: Somewhere, keep an empty shelf. I know where my empty shelf is, and I treasure it.
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.
I always thought eating what you wanted was one of those aspects of adulthood to be looked forward to when you were a child.
As human beings, we all mature physically from childhood to adolescence and then into adulthood, but our emotions lag behind.
I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?
My biggest financial fear is dying and not leaving enough to see my daughter through to adulthood and financial independence.
Kids don't shuffle along in unison on the road to maturity. They slouch toward adulthood at an uneven, highly individual pace.
It was so naive to think that there was nothing interesting that happened after 55. Come on, there's a whole second adulthood!
Today, American women bear an average of 2.2 children that live to adulthood. Across most of Europe, women bear even fewer young.
We need to teach our children empathy and care and love and communication and social responsibility in preparation for adulthood.
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.
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.
[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.
I had a beautiful childhood, so my adulthood has been really frustrating because it's - half the time it hasn't been as good as my childhood.
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.