Quotes About Adulthood

It also occurred to me that this was a promise I could not keep. I could not always take care of her. I could not never leave her. She was no longer a child. She was an adult. Things happened in life that mothers could not prevent or fix.

We closed the deal and moved to New York. Where in fact I had lived before, from the time I was twenty-one and just out of the English Department at Berkeley and starting work at Vogue (a segue so profoundly unnatural that when I was asked by the Condé Nast personnel department to name the languages in which I was fluent I could think only of Middle English) until I was twenty-nine and just married.

Being mature isn't what it's cracked up to be.

Oh, she understood wine, my mother. She understood the sweetening process, the fermentation, the seething and mellowing of life in the bottle, the darkening, the slow transformations, the birth of a new vintage in a bouquet of aromas like a magician's bunch of paper flowers. If only she had had time and patience enough for us. A child is not a fruit tree. She understood that too late. There is no recipe to take a child into sweet, safe adulthood. She should have known that.

The road to adulthood is filled with contradictions, and I was still young enough to half believe the lies with which that road is paved.

Why do boys always run? And when did I stop running?

Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up.

Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.

No one ever asks a kid for her opinion, but it seems to me that growing up means you stop hoping for the best, and start expecting the worst.

Adults, light-years away from this, rolled their eyes and smirked and said, this too shall pass - as if adolescence was a disease like chicken pox, something everyone recalled as a mild nuisance, completely forgetting how painful it had been at the time.

Goldfish get big enough only for the bowl you put them in. Bonsai trees twist in miniature. I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.

I used to think I'd be just like them when I grew up, but I am not. And the thing is, somewhere along the way, I stopped wanting to be like them, anyway.

But here's the truth: no matter how much you might wish for it, princes don't come around every day, and happy endings don't grow on trees. Take it from me: the sooner you grow up, the less you'll be disappointed.

Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers.

Just before my 16th birthday, Natalie Dormer said to me, 'As soon as you turn 16, you're going to work adult hours. People will try take advantage of you, so it's important not to be a pushover.'

For Ive been born and Ive been wed. All of mans peril comes of bed.

Welcome to the world filled with fun and occupied with adults. May all your dreams and fantasies come true. Happy 18th Birthday!

Always remember with freedom to take decisions comes the responsibility to take the right ones. Happy 18th Birthday and welcome to adulthood!

Welcome to the world of freedom. However, make sure that you use your freedom wisely. For now only you will be accountable for the decisions you take. Happy 18th Birthday. Have a blast!

Turning 18 is amongst most beautiful things in life. Don't bat an eyelid to miss a single moment of your wonderful day today! Happy 18th Birthday!

You can have the privileges of being 18 only once. So enjoy it while you've got it. Wishing you a very Happy 18th Birthday!

You may have been born 18 years ago but you have become legitimate in this world only today. So cheers to that and Happy 18th Birthday!

You might get to drive and vote since you're 18 now but it's officially the last time you'll get to cry over spilt milk to get what you want! Welcome to adulthood and wish you a very Happy 18th Birthday.

There is only one rule at the age of eighteen! Party as much as you can stand. Happy 18th Birthday!