Quotes About Adulthood

Once he wrote to a friend, "There are only two kinds of people in this world: Perpetual children, who are a terrible danger to civilization, and those who were born adult. When the 'children' take over this country and adults are in the minority, then it's the end for this country. I have known adults who were chronologically only ten years old, and children who were seventy-seven. One of these

I've apparently been the victim of growing up, which apparently happens to all of us at one point or another.

Please spare us the self-pity about how tough it is to look for a job while living with your parents.

At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks.

I'm not here to - as a parent, I believe we are specifically here to help our children mature in the way that they can take on their own lives. I'm not here to live their lives for them. That's not my job.

Even though I was 27 when I left, I still was largely treated like a child, because I wasn't married. My parents, my mother specifically, knew where I was and what I was doing at all times.

I spent some time back in Mexico at 16 because my parents thought it would be prudent for me to learn Spanish, because I held a Mexican passport.

I wish I was agile like Spider-Man and everything we do that draws on the childhood inspirations and the adulthood inspirations, for that matter. They're definitely the reason how I am, how I am today, because I was a smaller kid who was a nerd.

After my parents split up my mother moved to Lake Oswego and I went to Lake Oswego High School. And then finally I went to Portland State University for a year and a half before dropping out and moving to New York.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

As unmarried business women we must constantly use our opportunities in business in such a way that we are prepared for the marriage which may be ours tomorrow.

It was a bitter moment for us. We weren't two mature parents. We were just two kids playing grown-up. We still needed Mommy and Daddy's permission, blessings, and money to survive.

Such a bad mistake it would be, to embark on marriage and adult life without a nice supply of duct tape.

Even if you plan a marriage and a family, you are never quite prepared for the reality versus how you imagined it. In a lot of ways it's better, and in a lot of ways it's worse. That's life, right?

Being a male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of choice.

I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.

No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. In the first place brandy will do soonest for a man what drinking can do for him.

You're not a man until your father says you're a man.

I ain't no gangster. I'm a grown man trying to run a business.

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.

For the weariest road that man may wend Is forth fromn the home of his father.

Live as a man. Die as a man. Become a man.