Quotes About Adulthood

Its OK to grow up, just as long as you don't grow old. Face it you are young.

I have to be a leader now. I need to shoulder responsibility more than I used to. It's changed me, but I'm OK with that.

I remember being in jail, like, 'Man, I'm not old enough.' And then I thought, 'I just turned 18.' I had just turned old enough to be in big people jail.

I just do very old man, adult things.

There is so much to be gained from adulthood! Feelings just become so much deeper. The feeling of sadness and loss is much deeper than when you were a kid, but the feelings of love and happiness have also so much more dimension when you get older... That is what's so hard and exciting about being a human being.

As I'm getting older, I feel like maybe I need to grow up a bit.

In my case, both my grandmothers made a huge impact on my early childhood days. But, as I grew older, people rarely made an impact or influenced me.

I've become more mature on and off the court, and I've learned how to deal with some of those big occasions much better.

One of the things I wanted to do with my own books was bridge the gap between 'Goosebumps' and adult horror.

If I was going to be a little boy about it, I'd go into hiding for one or two years. But if I was going to be a man about it, it'd be 20 or 30 years.

After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.

Because I was an only child, I lived in a very grown-up world.

Miley is one of my best friends, and she helps with some of that transitional stuff - trying to escape your childhood. She's super open-minded, and I'm working on becoming more like that.

Successful creative adults seem to combine the wide-ranging exploration and openness we see in children with the focus and discipline we see in adults.

In my humble opinion, the ages 22 to about 27 are the most critical years of your adult life. It's your time to gestate in the cocoon of becoming.

She's way too old to be acting a fool because she has a screwed-up mommy." "Please. Just please with the blame-my-mommy-'cause-I'm-a-bitch crap

But I'm sixteen! I can't even parallel-park! How am I supposed to know how to be your eyes and ears?

The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.

Jedes Kind ist ein Künstler. Das Problem ist, ein Künstler zu bleiben, wenn du erwachsen bist.

I don't really think any of us are women right when we turn eighteen, or even twenty-one for that matter. You have to live a little. I certainly tried to do that.

would be grown up and living their own lives by now, of course, but

In adolescence she thought it was too early to choose; now, in young adulthood, she was convinced it was too late to change.

In family matters you can get over anything. That's one thing you'll learn as an adult. There's a lot you have to learn which is a lot worse than that. You'd never think of forgiving a friend for some of the things your parents did to you. But with friends it's different. Friends aren't the roll of the dice.

Her life was a series of zigzags. At nineteen, she was anxious.