Quotes About Adulting

I usually doze off between 7:30 and 9 p.m. while putting my baby to sleep. Then I suddenly wake up remembering I'm an adult with no bedtime. I spend the next four hours catching up on reading, e-mails, and other adult pursuits until I collapse for good until sunrise.

No matter how fine your suit and your shoes, you will remind everyone that you are not yet a grownup man by wearing them with your old college knapsack, in its nasty, nylon glory.

In the past, most of us would have imagined that daughters would be more likely to move back in with their parents as adults than sons. Because that was reality. No longer. Today, young men between twenty-five and thirty-one are 66 percent more likely than their female counterparts to be living with their parents.

Aber seien wir doch ehrlich, es ist ein seltsamer Beruf. Ein wenig lächerlich für einen erwachsenen Menschen. Sie sitzen daheim und denken sich Geschichten aus, die nie passiert sind.

I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.

I have a problem getting all my laundry done, cleaning up and doing all of the normal daily things that a grownup should do.

I guess I feel I'm masquerading as an adult when I don't have the kind of friendships and routines that I thought you were supposed to have as an adult. It's the 'Friends' lied to me! syndrome.

Teen movies often have an unspoken underlying premise in which high school is seen as less serious than the adult world. But when your head is encased in that microcosm it's the most serious time of your life.

Should you be driving? said the woman. I should be driving, I told her. I gave her a very-serious grown-up-to-grown-up sort of look. The situation is dire.

Yes, but still, if it was as adult and sophisticated as all that, why couldn't she decide what to do with her sweater? Why was she having such an awful time thinking of what in the world she could possibly say to the man?

Less than two weeks before my 34th birthday, I bought pots. Most people were amazed that I did not previously own pots, but that was before I explained that I had never used my oven, and used my stovetop for my dishrack.

I was raised with adults. I skipped knowing how to interact as a normal teenage person.

I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.

Any mature, responsible adult doesn't run around stomping their feet and screaming 'I'm a mature, responsible, adult.'

How good it felt, to do some good, here and there. Perhaps this was what it meant to be an adult. To grab the opportunity at hand, make the most of the day, regardless of what it looked like.

You know you're a grownup when your houseplants are alive and you can't smoke any of them.

Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.

Grown-up parties are so dull they make me want to throw a tantrum and hurl red wine on the nearest cream-damask armchair.

I didn't do a movie until I was almost 30. I'm grateful for that because it gave me a chance to be an adult in the world and do work in the regional theater that very few people cared about. I loved it and I wanted to do that stuff.

Life, just as we first thought, is playing grownup.

Grown-up people seem to be busy by clockwork: even when someone is not ill, when there has been no telegram, they run their unswerving course from object to object, directed by some mysterious inner needle that points all the time to what they must do next. You can only marvel at such misuse of time.

It's hard to make friends as an adult. You gotta work at it, you know? You have to ask people to lunch, and if you don't know them, it's weird.

I like grown up comedy.

I'm a grown man. I ain't got time for all that 'you say, she say.'