424 Quotes About Adulthood

One of the hardest jobs in this world is to be able to preserve the innocent face of our childhood in our adulthood as well!

People talk about how wonderful the world must seem to children, and that's true enough. But children think they will grow into it and understand it, and I know very well that I will not, and would not if I had a dozen lives. That's clearer to me every day. Each morning I am like Adam waking up in Eden, amazed at the cleverness of my hands and at the brilliance pouring into my mind through my eyes.

You are young," said my father. "You won't get any younger even if you clean your teeth twice a day.""You'll get older," said my mother, "that's what happens.""Then what happens?""You won't be able to find the treasure.""Will I be too old to look for it?""No, but you'll be looking in the wrong place.

Adults have their swords and make their wars. Kids are supposed to...play. We’re not supposed to have cares.” She looked at him, though her eyes were still looking into some distance. “I’m afraid I might be growing up. Why else do I feel like I don’t want to be an adult, but I’m no longer a child?

Always have a childlike wonder in your heart, even as your view of the world changes.

The monsters under my bed moved to my head.

You’re a bit young for this,’ she said, ‘but as you grow older you’ll find most people don’t set foot outside their own heads much. You too,’ she added gnomically.

Somehow her later years had become a mirror of her lonely childhood.

As an adult, when you're with your siblings, part of you is always a child, attached to childhood patterns of behavior and associations. All the jokes and gestures, affections and resentments.