#coming of age

I think that clearly it has an influence, to be coming of age during the punk rock era, to come from a difficult and sporadically violent background, to have been in and out of such chaos, I think it actually helps. But I don't know for sure. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#age #background #been #chaos #clearly

There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air; the punk rock movement made sense. ↗

— John Cusack

#age #air #also #america #apocalypse

The nicest thing about coming of age is that I can do whatever I like. ↗

— Cilla Black

#age #coming #coming of age #i #i can

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction. ↗

— James Joyce

#allowed #child #coming #coming of age #father

People are looking to have more meaning in their lives. It is a sign the technology community is coming of age. ↗

— John Doerr

#coming #coming of age #community #lives #looking

But, on another level it's really sort of this really cool coming of age story, it reminds me of like The Breakfast Club or something like that, if I can be so bold to associate with The Breakfast Club. ↗

— Will Estes

#another #associate #bold #breakfast #club

Although becoming a singer was my plan A after first hearing Whitney Houston when I was 17, I started off with plan B by going to the teacher-training college that my dad went to. It was a slow coming of age. ↗

— Toni Braxton

#age #although #becoming #college #coming