Quotes About Adulthood

True adulthood occurs the moment we grasp that the people who raised us do not exist solely for our comfort and reassurance. From that point on, the steady stream of unconditional love and support we've expected from them all our lives has to flow both ways.

I was studying at Stanford University with two quarters left to go before receiving an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering. Then, I got the telephone call from my mother. I had no choice. I went home, and I jumped into the company feet first, right from day one. There was no time to grieve my father.

My loyalty was questioned for a long time when I was younger, and that's understandable. I found it very difficult to conform and I wanted to do it all my way.

Remember those black-and-white films with Frank Sinatra? Those guys looked like men and they were only 27! Listen to Otis Redding singing 'Try A Little Tenderness'. That was a man who understood what a man has to know in the world. Show me a real man now! Where are they?

I can understand the dilemma of growing up in a bubble, and then not knowing what to do when unemployment beckons and reality bursts in.

Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy.

In a materialistic society, an employed boy is older than an unemployed man.

Be a dog, but don't be a younger brother.Proverb.

there is a big difference between a boy and a man, the level of maturity will tell.

Maturity doesn't mean you stop fighting, you just change the things you fight for.

A man who brags about satisfying 30 women is immature. A real man is one who can satisfy the same woman for 30 years.

It's a very hard thing for all of us to accept ourselves at all the different stages - the horrible side, the wonderful side, the adorable side - and who you are as a grownup. And then to bring what you learned as a child to that grownup: that is the magic of creativity.

There are things that happen, at different times in your life. You go through natural changes in life, when you reach your 30s, mid-30s and 40s, and you go through these different stages.

To most of us, adulthood means being able to earn a living, possess a home, get married and rear children, and this implies having autonomy or control over one's life. In the 19th century, becoming an adult was celebrated as a liberation from paternal authority. Today we regard it more as a time of regret and stagnation.

You cannot hold a child accountable to the same standards that you hold an adult accountable to.

The army teaches boys to think like men.

Now that we're men, I changed my underwear.

How hard it is, how bitter it is to become a man!

The difference between men and boys is the price of their toys.

Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man.

Those who tread 'adult' as a term of approval cannot hope to be considered adult themselves. When I became a man I put away childish things, along with the desire to be very grown up.

I go to bed with men, not boys.

By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.

A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.