Quotes About Adulthood

When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing. Reach a nice level plateau and settle there, predictable and unchanging, no longer a threat.

What you want to be when you grow up?" Thomas turned the knob with his left hand and opened the door. "A man," he said and left.

It was a silly age, twenty-five; too old for teenaged dreaming, too young for settling down. Every corner was a possibility and a dead end.

The last of her children, whom she barely glanced at when he was born because it wasn't worth the trouble to try to learn features you would never see change into adulthood anyway.

You couldn't learn age, but adulthood was there for all.

She knew from personal experience how hard loving was, how selfish and how easily sundered. Withholding sex or relying on it, ignoring children or devouring them, rerouting true feelings or locking them out. Youth being the excuse for that fortune-cookie love—until it wasn't, until it became pure adult stupidity.

There had been two or three girls who had helped him enter the fifties (lovely, lovely). Nothing to worry Margaret had she known. Merely life preservers in the post-fifty ocean, helping him make it to shore.

But as one Hungarian who had worked for some years in California explained to an interviewer: 'America is the place to come when you are young and single. But if it is time to grow up, you should return to Europe'.

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If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!

We were sixteen. How did you prevent your life from turning into something so boring that no one wanted to know about it? How did you make yourself special?

Reality 101 is the hardest course your college kid will ever take.

What is a star? Is stardom a kind of suspended adulthood? Is it a place beyond good and evil? Is a star a person you need to believe in--a daredevil, a risk-taker, a person who goes close to the edge without falling?

Growing up is hard, love. Otherwise everyone would do it.

Parentified children learn to take responsibility for themselves and others early on. They tend to fade into the woodwork and let others take center stage. This extends into adulthood - adult children may put others' needs before their own. They may have difficulty accepting care and attention.

zu erwachsenen Leuten nicht du sagen darf. Sie hat dabei

Lonely is one of the adjectives people like Shane Claiborne use, alongside unsustainable, to describe the culture of adulthood they grew up watching.

You want to be treated like an adult? Then you need to grow up.

My childhood had ended, and I never even had the chance to say goodbye.

Let the children enjoy what they have before they become too burdened with the cares of adults.

Was this adulthood? This pruning of dreams to be practical?

We don't stop going to school when we graduate.

She was a grown-up, divorced woman now, on her own. She'd gotten herself this far, she could get herself around Italy too.

She was on a real, grown-up adventure, no matter how badly it should turn out.