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Quotes About Adulthood

Men are but children of a larger growth.
~ John Dryden
He drank his first strong liquor then to calm his shaking hand, and tried to tell himself at last he had become a man.
~ Johnny Cash
I'm happy to be on a show that's bridging that gap of 'Okay, I'm not a teenager anymore, I'm a man.'
~ Milo
How many really capable men are children more than once during the day!
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
I was a boy, suddenly treated like the men and expected to act like them.
~ Robbie Fowler
Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
~ Walter Lippmann
There's nobody to guide through the process of becoming a man... to explain to them the meaning of manhood. And that's a recipe for disaster.
~ Barack Obama
Baseball is a boy's game that makes grown men cry.
~ Bill Veeck
Well, if I am a man, a man I must become.
~ Rudyard Kipling
I feel like I went from being a boy to being a man, in some respects, through the help of Dustin Hoffman.
~ Patrick J. Adams
Don't throw me teddy-bears, I'm 23! I'm a man! Throw me condoms or money! Paper, not coins.
~ Robbie Williams
When men are growing up and they're reading about Batman, Spiderman, Superman ... those are not fantasies ... they're options.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
As a young man, you get to a point in your life where you feel like you have grown up and have to make decisions and not having that father figure in your life to guide you to making those decisions.
~ John Starks
A boy becomes a man when a man is needed
~ John Steinbeck
A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was no need for a man.
~ John Steinbeck
Why are men reluctant to become fathers? They aren't through being children.
~ Unknown
Kill the boy, Jon Snow. Winter is almost upon us. Kill the boy and let the man be born.
~ George R. R. Martin
You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
~ Daisy Fuentes
I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.
~ Adam Ant
I started drinking Scotch just to be a man.
~ Adam Brody
I was too young to live on campus. I just went back and forth on the bus. Eventually I got my own car and thought I was Mr. Man, so I started hot wheelin' it.
~ Aldis Hodge
I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man's Trojans.
~ Billy Joel
Once one becomes a man, he can and must make his own decisions. But I do offer warning. Even a good thing can become destructive if taken to excess.
~ Brandon Sanderson
I don't know, man. Look at me. I've changed. I've grown up. I've got a job, got a career ... I drink coffee now.
~ Bret McKenzie