Quotes About Adulthood

Being nice to someone you hate isnt called being two-faced. Its called growing up.

Time to grow up and stop being stubborn & forget about the past

Real adulthood is the result of two qualities: self-discipline and self-reliance. The process of developing them together in balance is called maturing.

Girls need a man who will treat them good, not like those lil boys who claimed they could.

My promise to my Kids: I am not your friend. I am your Mother. I will stalk you, flip out on you, lecture you, drive you insane, be your worst nightmare & hunt you down like a bloodhound when needed because I LOVE YOU! When you understand that, I will know you are a responsible adult. You will never find someone who loves, prays, cares and worries about you more than I do!

Growing up involves making a lot of mistakes and learning from them. But it also involves no regrets and having a great time.

Adolescence, the time to live, experience, love before the monotonia of adulthood, so let's live the day without hate or sorrow

Idealizing Daddy is grand when you're five; it's crippling when you're twenty-five or thirty-five. For if you still believe in Daddy's miracles, you may not believe that you can make your own dreams come true. Worse, you may not even be able to formulate them without his guidance

What drives a fourteen-year-old to swear a blood oath to a blood brother? And more important, what makes a grown man believe in that oath? Should not the things that count, like ideology and political belief, the ripe fruit of our adulthood, matter more than the unripe ideals and illusions of youth? Let me propose that truth, or some measure of it, can be found in these youthful follies that we forget, to our loss, as adults.

A man is not a man until he leaves his home or has a house of his own.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

A mature person is one who, having attained his majority, is able to make choices and decisions based on accurate perceptions about himself, others, and the context in which he finds himself; who acknowledges these choices and decisions as being his; and who accepts responsibility for their outcomes.

We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives.

Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time.

Either you get a chance to be a kid when you are a kid, or you don't grow up.

There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man.

Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise.

When you are 16 you are supposed to be doing cool things, like sneaking alcohol, not living in Disney World and doing skits about mice.

You are mature when you know what is foolhardy and what is courage.

I went from living in my dad's basement to moving to New York. So I never had that middle ground of easing into adulthood.

When you're nearing 35, going, 'Hey Dad, I can't make these payments,' just isn't cool.

Todos los niños nacen artistas. El problema es cómo seguir siendo artista cuando creces.

You've grown up being special, and this is how most people live their lives...alone. On their own. Undecided. And they get used to that feeling. It's just new for you.

It's the process, how you become a man. Boys cling; men leave.