Quotes About Adulthood

You could forgive a lot if somebody was there to take care of things until you grew up.

The thought of Christmas overwhelms him. He no longer looks forward to the holiday; he wants only to be on the other side of the season. His impatience makes him feel that he is incontrovertibly, finally, an adult.

It's the first apartment he has to himself, after an evolving chain of roommates all through college and graduate school.

I need a man who tells me the party's over, that it's time to go home, because [we] have to work in the morning.

There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.

You cannot afford to gamble your youth only for fun.

If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.

There's a grace period where being a mess is charming and interesting, and then I think when you hit around 27, it stops being charming and interesting, and it starts being kind of pathological, and you have to find a new way of life. Otherwise, you're going to be in a place where the rest of your peers have been moving on, and you're stuck.

Most of my friends from college became dental hygienists or went into retail, a lot went into sales. They all started getting married and having kids and buying homes and I was still living like a college student.

I'm forever being told, and intrinsically understand, that people want to study at different times in their lives, often inspired to do so when they see the practical benefits of their studies.

When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things.

I mean, I - it's so funny, I am, you know, I am, you know, a working woman out in the world, but I still live with my parents half the time. I've been sort of taking this very long, stuttering period of moving out.

We struck out on our own in suburbia with parents who actually helped us get where we needed to go.

In most cultures, you can have a kid at 18 and it's not a big thing. It's not like, 'Oh, you've got to get a different haircut and move to the suburbs and act, like, 35.'

Don't waste your youth growing up.

I'm not into little boys till they're old enough to have their own credit card.

El adulto ha optado por no ser adulto del todo, ha abdicado de la reflexión y el juicio y ha preferido seguir siendo joven. Es lo que califica a este mundo light, de pensamiento débil y relaciones líquidas, un mundo posmoderno que rehuye las dificultades y los problemas.

See, I can talk to the pretty man like a real grown up if I try hard enough.

I think I'm finally growing up - and about time.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

I think I'm past the age of getting lost.

You can't be a kid in show business. You will not survive.

Adults are living increasingly as children: completely in their imaginations. Reading Harry Potter while every newspaper in the country goes out of business. They know so little that is real.

How much smaller the large places are once we're grown up, when we have car keys and credit cards.