Quotes About Adulthood

We left Egypt when I was seven, and we didn't return until I was 21. My teen years were divided between the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia. Up until we left the U.K., it was like your regular teenage years. The one thing I remember is that I couldn't date. That was one thing my parents made very clear.

Universal health coverage is an ambitious goal, but it is one that can create a healthier and more equitable world for all people. It means a child reaches adulthood, and adults lead healthier lives regardless of who they are and where they live.

The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.

Perhaps life is actually more confusing and unknowable to an adult than a child, but grown-ups have learned to deceive themselves and act as if they understand what's going on; and some are elected to high office on the basis of their ability to create this impression.

I do a job I really, really love and I kind of have fun with. People think you can't be grown up unless you're moaning about your job.

Part of being an adult is treating women like women.

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.

I was wanting to be a kid at 18 instead of being a young woman.

You can't marry boys and expect them to be men - and you can't massage them into being men.

Aurora, you're a child, live like one, don't act like one. Enjoy the innocence, dump the immaturity.

Becoming an adult means leaving the world of your parents and starting to make your way toward the future that you will share with your peers.

Most people who came here came for economic reasons or sometimes for religious or political reasons. I didn't have any of this. I came here, I liked it, I stayed. So I'm a pure American - even more than people who are born here - because I did it by choice as an adult.

Growing up, I stayed in a child's place. My father was murdered when I was 20. I was a model and never had a real job and my parents took care of me.

I could have been a rich kid who stayed in college and got by on the path of least resistance, but I got much more out of being in the world and pulling my own weight.

Just when did I get to the point when staying at a hotel wasn't fun?

I was living with my dad, and I loved it. But I could totally imagine that if I didn't move out quickly, I would end up staying there well into my 30s.

Probably the most important thing in terms of just trying to navigate and moving forward into adulthood is staying busy.

There's so many great coming-of-age movies to steal from, and I feel like I just tried to steal from them all equally.

I was living with my stepfather for a while, and then I moved out and went and lived on my own in Hastings-by-the-Sea from about 16.

It's all about baby steps and trying to figure out how to slowly, elegantly become an adult.

You are no longer a boy, and one of the first duties which a man owes to his friends and to society is to live within his income.

You see, at Rugby I was rather a great man. There one had a share in the ruling of 300 boys, and a good deal of responsibility; but here one has only just to take care of oneself, and keep out of scrapes; and that's what I never could do.

They had each survived into adulthood by proceeding warily, yet now they were expected to walk with a heavy step and newfound power through their neighborhoods. In every other part of the city, however, they were still expected to vanish, or worse.