True Adulthood Quotes

#1. I've always thought that one of the signs of true adulthood is when you realize that you spend each Christmas trying to relive childhood memories that never really happened in the first place.

Josh Kilmer-Purcell

#2. True adulthood occurs the moment we grasp that the people who raised us do not exist solely for our comfort and reassurance. From that point on, the steady stream of unconditional love and support we've expected from them all our lives has to flow both ways.

Lynn Coady

#3. For love, people consider the unthinkable . . . and often achieve the impossible. I would not sneer at its power." The

Renee Ahdieh

#4. [It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies hatred of the English and ... the Revolutionary War.

Benjamin Franklin

#5. We must know that we have been created for greater things, not just to be a number in the world, not just to go for diplomas and degrees, this work and that work. We have been created in order to love and to be loved.

Mother Teresa

#6. At President Obama's direction, the U.S Department of Agriculture is working hard to unleash the power of America's innovators and entrepreneurs to build a green energy economy.

Tom Vilsack

#7. But hoping you never saw someone again is a damn sight different from wishing them dead.

Rob Thurman

#8. Someone wise told me recently that Adulting was hard. My response: TRUE STORY

Sonya Watson

#9. We try to make art perfect because we never manage it in real life

Jasper Fforde

#10. I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped up in adult bodies, like children's books hidden in the middle of dull, long adult books, the kind with no pictures or conversations.

Neil Gaiman

#11. Try it for your father, dear," said the Countess. "Quickly, before it congeals.

Terry Pratchett

#12. I want to know we're not pushing children toward the traditions of life, but instead cultivating them to grow in their own specific purposes, and make the dreams of their youth become realities as they age.

Ashley Ormon