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| The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love. | Don Barthelme | 1931-1989, American Actor |
| Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below. | George Orwell | 1903-1950, British Author, ''Animal Farm'' |
| The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of ADULTHOOD. | Germaine Greer | 1939-, Australian Feminist Writer |
| We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language. | Henry David Thoreau | 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist |
| People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in ADULTHOOD, and soften into old age. | Henry Giles | |
| To be adult is to be alone. | Jean Rostand | 1894-1977, French Biologist, Writer |
| Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain. | John Dryden | 1631-1700, British Poet, Dramatist, Critic |
| A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does. | Lewis B Hershey | |
| In my case, ADULTHOOD itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark. | Nicholson Baker | 1957-, American Author |
| We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and ADULTHOOD until we move from the passive voice to the active voice -- that is, until we have stopped saying ''It got lost,'' and say, ''I lost it.'' | Sidney J. Harris | 1917-, American Journalist |
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| What is an adult? A child blown up by age. | Simone De Beauvoir | 1908-1986, French Novelist, Essayist |
| In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in ADULTHOOD just, and in old age prudent. | Socrates | BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher of Athens |
| Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another. | Source Unknown | |
| ADULTHOOD is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum. | Thomas Szasz | 1920-, American Psychiatrist |
| A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong. | Thomas Szasz | 1920-, American Psychiatrist |
| One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them. | Virginia Woolf | 1882-1941, British Novelist, Essayist |
