“The Olympic Games are not just ordinary world championships but a quadrennial festival of universal youth. . . celebrated by each succeeding generation as it arrives on the threshold of adulthood.” WorldGamesGenerationsYouthSucceedOrdinaryUniversalAdulthoodChampionshipFestivalsThresholdOlympic GamesOrdinary World Author:Pierre de Coubertin
“The moment you decide that you're a grownup now, and therefore must put away foolish things like staying out all night or cruising down strange highways is the moment you will lose that ineffable glow of youth. If you don't believe me, look around. Study those people who would rather go to shopping malls than dance halls, who think the height of depravity is bidding two no trump with only fifteen points. Every single one of these people has a stringy neck.” PeopleIfsThinkingBelieveLooksTwoMomentsNightLosesStudyYouthStrangeTrumpDon't BelieveFoolishHeightNecksStayingHallsShoppingBelieve In MeAdulthoodFifteenHighwaysAll NightMallsDepravityIneffableGrownupsBidding Author:Cynthia Heimel
“The responsibility of building leadership in the Church belongs to the father and the mother. . . . As youth grow and mature through their teenage years and move toward adulthood, the Church picks up an important role in this process of giving youth an opportunity to lead, but it begins in the home.” GivingYearsImportantHomeMovingMotherFatherOpportunityGrowsProcessChurchResponsibilityRolesYouthBuildingPicksMatureAdulthoodTeenageTeenage Years Author:Dieter F. Uchtdorf
“Adulthood it a glacier encroaching quietly on youth. When it arrives, the stamp of childhood suddenly freezes, capturing us for good in the image of our last act, the pose we struck when the ice of age set in.” AgeLastsChildhoodYouthIceAdulthoodStampsFreezeGlaciers Book:The rule of four Source: The rule of four
“War defined my entire childhood and youth and most of my adulthood too - and in the US, it continues to do so.” WarChildhoodYouthDefinedAdulthood Author:Ru Freeman
“There is a point in every young person's life when you realize that the youth that you've progressed through and graduate to some sort of adulthood is equally as messed up as where you're going.” PersonsYoungRealizingYouthGraduatesAdulthoodMessed Up Author:Jena Malone
“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.” HumansTimeHuman BeingsYouthBirthFellowsAgingPassingPassingsMaturityBirthdayAdulthoodFellowshipMy Birthday60th BirthdayAge And YouthInspirational BirthdayWise Birthday40th BirthdayQuotations Birthday Happy BirthdayMilestone Birthday20th BirthdayWise Age Book:The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1912-1918 Source: The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1912-1918
“Life is truly a ride. We're all strapped in and no one can stop it. When the doctor slaps your behind, he's ripping your ticket and away you go. As you make each passage from youth to adulthood to maturity, sometimes you put your arms up and scream, sometimes you just hang on to that bar in front of you. But the ride is the thing. I think the most you can hope for at the end of life is that your hair's messed, you're out of breath, and you didn't throw up.” ThinkingEndsSometimesLife IsBehindsFrontsYouthHairArmsDoctorsBreathsBarsMaturityPassagesScreamAdulthoodTicketsSlapEnd Of Life Author:Jerry Seinfeld
“Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold fronts, ill winds, and contrary tides... I mistook them for adulthood. Assuming they were a fixed feature in my life's voyage, I neglected to record their latitude, their longitude, their approach. Young ruddy fool. What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.” GivingYoungThreeLostRecordsFourFrontsYouthWindFoolColdApproachConstantAssumingCloudsIllContraryFeaturesFixedMapsTidesAdulthoodGlimpseFogNeglectedJoyousVoyagesIneffableIsleAtlasLatitude Author:David Mitchell
“In their youth, mortals behave more like nymphs. Adulthood seems impossibly distant, let alone the enfeeblement of old age. But ponderously, inevitably, it overtakes you.” SeemsAgeYouthOld AgeMortalsBehaveAdulthoodNymphs Book:Fablehaven Source: Fablehaven