Each year, more responsibility and freedom (they are companions) must be given to the child so that the final release in early adulthood is merely a small, final release of authority.

— James C. Dobson

Eventually he understood that he was crying for himself. He was ashamed of the man whom he had become, mourning the man whom he had expected to be when he'd been a boy.

— Dean Koontz

Eventually we come to know and understand a lot of things, but it's too late, because a whole life has already been determined at a stage when we didn't know a thing.

— Milan Kundera

Every child born into the world has a divine mission to fulfill. As the child grows into adulthood, he or she must act to fulfill the divine mission.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Everyone else we knew growing up is the same: image of their parents, no matter how loud they told themselves they'd be different

— Tana French

Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.

— Amit Kalantri

Fettuccine Alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults.

— Mitch Hedberg

Forgiveness is what makes adults different to children: children just forget, adults forgive.

— Tim Relf

For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.

— John Connolly

Growing up, imagination gave way to cynicism. Ignorance was traded in for world weariness. Fears remained, but they were the dull, suburban fears of illness, destitution, and death. The visceral terror of the unknown-of unseen things lurking under the bed or creeping out of the cupboard-became a fuzzy memory.

— John McNee