Quotes About Adulthood

I told her how proud I was, now that she was growing up and had her very own job to do

It is a measure of true adulthood that we are able to imagine our parents as the people they may have been before us.

One of the causes of our suffering comes from the presence, in the deepest part of ourselves, of a kind of nostalgia for unity that sometimes surfaces with great force not only during infancy and adolescence but also in adulthood.

We don't stop going to school when we graduate.

"A clever girl may pass through the phase of foolish miss on the way to sensible woman."

Marriage is just fancy word to adopt an over grown male child who is no more handled by his parents.

I think that's the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we've made out of our lives and start owning the consequences of our actions.

You don't have to be 'adults'... but be someone who can take responsibility for their own words and actions. Believe it or not, that's actually harder.

Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime!

In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.

As far as I'm concerned playing 'Dress Up' begins at the age of five, and never truly ends.

A person remains immature, whatever his age, as long as he thinks of himself as an exception to the human race.

The young are of age when they twitter like the old; they are driven through school to learn the old song, and, when they have this by heart, they are declared of age.

When you get to your mid-20s, you start to feel responsibilities for the things that you do and the people around you. It's a cool age.

Sometimes grown ups don't act their right old age

At the age of 19, you always think you are prepared for everything and you think you have the knowledge of what?s coming ahead.

I'm a teen-age bride.

You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.

I am totally convinced that most grown-ups have completely forgotten what is it like to be a child between the ages of five and then... I can remember exactly what it was like. I am certain I can.

I never fit in with my peer group. I never hung out with kids my age - I always wanted to hang out with my mom and her girlfriends.

Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.

Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.

Because a fellow can see ever now and then that children have more sense than him. But he dont like to admit it to them until they have beards.

I'm fifty; all I know is that people nineteen years old will do anything, and that the only thing which makes the adult world at all safe from them is the fact that they are so preconceived of success that the simple desire and will are the finished accomplishment, that they pay no attention to mere dull mechanical details.