Quotes About Adulthood

I've had to be a man since I was 12 or 13. I had a job. And I was playing the piano for people twice my age. Handling responsibility is what makes a man a man.

I see guys dressing like they're in college - and they're not. I don't want to be that guy.

I looked at what adults were doing and how they wanted to earn money, and I really didn't want to do that. I wanted to go away.

I'm a wife and a mother. I don't want to be immature; I have to be ready at all times.

I'm sad for adults who want to be children. And children who want to be adults.

I know in this day and age, when you meet men, they often want to be boys. They dress like boys. And it's very confusing. I can't offer any solution except to make a movie about it.

I'm not sure what I want to do when I grow up, or if I'm sure I ever want to grow up. I'm sure there are people that wish I would, but you know, my mom will get over it.

Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I dont feel everybody can connect to.

When I was 18, I'd be out four nights a week - I want to have that energy again but I've found I'm a bit old and ready for retirement.

I think a lot of times, people don't want to do what their parents do because they want to be their own person.

I remember how much - when I was a small boy I was taken to see a version of 'Peter Pan.' I detested it. I mean, the sentimental idea that anybody would want to remain a boy.

I don't think anyone wants to grow up to be Mindy Lahiri, the same way no one wants to grow up to be Michael Scott.But that's OK.

The Preacher, the Politicain, the Teacher, Were each of them once a kiddie. A child, indeed, is a wonderful creature. Do I want one? God Forbiddie!

I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family.

Old enough to kill means old enough to die

I sort of wish they had invented hooky by now," said Brandon M.

There's nothing more boring than listening to successful adults whine about how mistreated they were as children, is there?

he told me, married and with a child of his own.

The whole point of becoming an adult is to achieve self-reliance.

The only thing that separated the so-called real world from high school was a locker combination

Doing what you can to move your part of the world closer to the way it should be, while never losing sight of the way it is, is what being a grown-upmcomes to.

What we rarely see receive is a picture of adulthood that represents it as the ideal it should be. (...) What better way to keep people longing for childhood than to paint a picture of adulthood no right-minded soul could ever want?

Doing what you can to move your part of the world closer to the way that it should be, while never losing sight of the way that it is, is what being a grown-up comes to.

The strain of being a full-fledged adult every day had grown tiresome.