Quotes About Adulthood

Woe to the lazy man! Laziness is an evil disease which you must not let seize you in childhood, for when you grow up it cannot be cured. Chapter 25

Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this.

You got to stand up and be a man. You can't just keep running off.

I told my parents, 'You've taken care of me all my life, helped me through college. You've been awesome, but now it's my turn to be my own man.'

What is the use of being a little boy if you are growing up to be a man.

In the lives of children, pumpkins turn into coaches, mice and rats turn into men. When we grow up, we realize it is far more common for men to turn into rats.

The boy that you loved is the man that you fear.

When I became a man, I put away childish things and got more elaborate and expensive childish things from France and Japan.

The only thing which separates man from child is all the values he has lost over the years.

America is the only place where man is full-grown!

Some people may think I am still young and still a boy but now I feel like I am a man.

You act at being a man, and before you know it, you are one.

I had grown a thin mustache, I was a full-grown man, and yet I was completely helpless and without a goal in life.

I don't want to go to school and learn solemn things. I don't want to be a man.

Bachelors begin at thirty-six. Up till this age they are regarded as single men.

We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.

My mom won't let anyone treat me like a little princess.

They couldn't wait to get me out. My dad found my place, my mom helped me pack, and my brother was making architectural plans for my bedroom. It was just what you do at 18.

One of the blessings of becoming an adult is finally seeing my mom and dad as people, not just parents.

When I moved out of my mom's house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else.

I still feel like a kid sometimes myself so hard to believe that I'm a mom. Now I'm an adult! It only took 38 years!

Remember what being an adult is: It has nothing to do with money or awards.

I moved out of my house at 17 and half, I rented an apartment... I pulled all the things off. It was pretty amazing and I lived a pretty good life, I had a car and I was making good money.