Quotes About Adulthood

I never really wanted to grow up. I grew up really young. I moved out when I was 13 - that's when I started acting.

I moved to Chicago in 1980 to go to college.

Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.

My mum says that I was born 45, and I do remember at six thinking that I should be earning my own living.

It was so naive to think that there was nothing interesting that happened after 55. Come on, there's a whole second adulthood!

I have five horses. My first was a professional jumper named Santos. I got him when I was 18.

I still think I'm writing Nancy Drew with a mortgage.

Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than it naturally unfolded. I cheated myself out of a childhood but then got a running headstart into adulthood that no one else could keep up with.

by the time you're in college, you're responsible for what you do. Your moral code is developed

It's times like this when someone is talking to you like you are a grown-up that you have to be careful not to pick your nose or dig your drawers out of your butt.

Mom's lips puckered, like she'd bitten something rotten. At times like this, Cody could tell that being a grown-up was harder than it looked.

He made the hearts of Rabbi Eliezer and Rabbi Akiva stubborn, so they could traverse the highway from ignorance to enlightenment in adulthood.

The sound of his voice reminds me that I am a mother and mothers don't have the luxury of falling apart in front of their children, even when they are afraid, even when their children are adults.

Leni was afraid to stay and afraid to leave. It was strange—stupid, even—but she often felt like the only adult in her family, as if she were the ballast that kept the creaky Allbright boat on an even keel.

I'm here, Mom," Julien says quietly, taking my suitcase, lifting it easily over the obstruction. The sound of his voice reminds me that I am a mother and mothers don't have the luxury of falling apart in front of their children, even when they are afraid, even when their children are adults.

Adults always talked about mistakes, the cost of doing the wrong thing. She wished she'd listened now.

As far as Leni could tell, adults were edgy in general, and no wonder.

I think being an adult must be confusing as hell.

I hated the company of other children. I wanted to be a grownup person, to be taken seriously. I hated the idea of childhood; I thought it was a moment of endless stupidity.

Things can kill you. All kinds of things, like toys, or older brothers. And as she'd grown up, that list had just gotten longer and longer.

from the youth of today. She was beyond them. Her heritage, whatever it was, had forced her into adulthood. 'Nancy's a long time with that tea. You haven't been listening to what I've been saying.' 'Oh yes, I have, dear. Oh yes. I always listen to what . . . you . .

Oona and Daphne had to figure out a way to adapt to the adult world, and not the other way around. This is an integral concept in French parenting.

With time, when I was very old and in my twenties, I might find a man to love, not one forced upon me…

Sons get bigger and bigger and turn into grownups, but you still call them your son.