Quotes About Transition

I don't want to be someone in my sixties holding on to a group that I created when I was in my twenties.

By the time you are in your thirties, most of the time, you've got a job, you can pay for your rent, you can create this nice world around you. And still, you're only in your thirties - you're not that far away from your twenties, which is when you're making all of your stupid mistakes.

It's only when the kids are in their late twenties that families really face up to what they are.

I started going gray in my early twenties.

I've never forgotten what it's like to be in your early twenties, which is not a particularly easy time. You've left your family, you've left the strictures of high school, and you're trying to break free and form yourself but you have to support yourself as well. We don't really give enough credence to that time of life and to its troubles.

I was just dying to get out of my twenties.

I think it's natural as you get to the end of your twenties to start thinking about what you could have done differently - whether they went well or whether they went terribly.

Do you want to continue being great at being in your twenties, or do you want to step up and graduate into adulthood?

I found it hard to be young. When I was married in my twenties, I hated being regarded as 'the little wife.' You don't know what it was like then! I'd never even written a cheque. I had to ask my husband for money for groceries.

The twenties are a deceptively challenging-slash-painful time. I'm just glad to be out of that phase.

I was in my early twenties. I was 22-ish. I graduated from college and went right into teaching. The first year, I taught in Indiana at a couple schools, and then I moved over to Chicago.

It took me a long time to make that leap to being a grown-up and responsible adult because I carried on being a child actor into my late twenties. It's OK to be precocious when you're young, but when you're a man of about 27 or 28 and playing a 17-year-old in a TV show, it kind of prolongs your childhood.

There is that time right around 30 when you think, your twenties have gone by, and now you really are a grown up, and you do have to figure out what you're going to do.

I'd been waiting to turn thirty my whole life. For some reason, when I was eleven, I was like, 'I know thirty's going to be good. Get through those twenties!'

My twenties were the worst period of my life.

To continue playing late into your twenties in the same style that you once played as a teenager is not possible.

My twenties were a write-off.

Throughout your teens and twenties, it's pretty easy to live in a suspended reality - one where you never get old or need to spend much time thinking about 401Ks, mammograms, or renewing your license. You don't need me to tell you: that ends.

In your twenties, you might want to be radical and change the world, but in your thirties, you might just want to be happy and ground yourself.

When I moved to L.A. in my early twenties, I was growing my hair. Then, when I was 25, I cut it off and was like, 'Oh no, I think I'm a long hair person until I go bald!'

You go through so many changes, especially in your twenties.

I had my mid-life crisis at 29. I've got my thirties and forties into the back end of my twenties.

My twenties were tumultuous at best... I think.

Because I think your twenties are really difficult, aren't they?