Quotes About Adulthood

If we were teenagers, I could kiss you. But I'm on a platform behind a counter wearing a name tag and we're too old to be young.

That's a cheat,' I say. 'You can't go through life blaming your childhood for the way you are as an adult.

Was he smart enough? Introspective enough? Was it just enough to love him, or should I attach myself to someone who seemed farther ahead of me, someone smarter and more ambitious than me, who'd be sure to carry me along into the version of adulthood I thought I should be striving for?

I had to comport myself with something approaching dignity, at twenty.

I was barely old enough to vote but I could easily enlist in the army, and I enlisted into the army of him.

College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage.

Kill the boy, Jon Snow. Winter is almost upon us. Kill the boy and let the man be born.

This is not Winterfell', he told him as he cut his meat with fork and dagger. 'On the Wall, a man gets only what he earns. You're no ranger, Jon, only a green boy with the smell of summer still on you.

Here and now, with winter soon upon us, that is a different matter. It is time to begin growing up.

Boys believe nothing can harm them, his doubt whispered. Grown men know better.

He will not be three forever. And winter is coming.

Kill the boy and let the man be born.

As a boy, he used to run across this bridge, even in the black of night. Boys believe nothing can hurt them, his doubt whispered. Grown men know better.

It is all too common for caterpillars to become butterflies and then to maintain that in their youth they had been little butterflies. Maturation makes liars of us all.

Soon after that we would go our separate ways, grow cold, forget one another, the rebels would grow tame as teaching assistants in the universities, the sworn bachelors and party animals would be pushing baby carriages and zoning out in front of their TV, the hippies would get regular haircuts at the local barbershop.

Men, in general, are but great great children.

Grow up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

It is unjust to claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of childhood.

Happiness is ... usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age.

Age 40 & the 40s. — People often say to a boy when he eats between meals: "It will spoil your dinner." But, piecing between meals never spoils your meals until after you pass forty.

I'm not a really super-political type of person, and that might change as I get older.

I was not very well-behaved. I remember I was a discipline problem. I was a typical American male at twenty years old, and I was causing trouble whenever I could.

Sunscreen, in the world of beauty, is the ultimate in adulting.