Quotes About Adulthood

No matter how much kids beg to be treated like adults, nobody likes to let go of their childhood. You wish for it and dream of it and the second you have it, you wonder what you've done. You wonder what it is you've become.

No matter how much kids beg to be treated like adults, nobody likes to let go of their childhood. You wish for it and dream of it and the second you have it, you wonder what you've done. You wonder what it is you've become.

the changes during adolescence are not something to just get through; they are qualities we actually need to hold on to in order to live a full and meaningful life in adulthood.

The healthy move to adulthood is toward interdependence, not complete "do-it-yourself" isolation.

Spoiled children often grow up to be unhappy because people in the real world don't respond to their every whim.

Yet when adults lose the four distinguishing features of adolescence, when they stop cultivating the power of novelty seeking, social engagement, emotional intensity, and creative exploration, life can become boring, isolating, dull, and routinized.

Half of Syria's refugees are children, and we know what can happen to children who grow to adulthood without hope or opportunity in refugee camps. The camps become fertile recruiting grounds for violent extremists.

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.

If you're old enough to father a child, then you're old enough to accept financial responsibility for that child. If you don't want your embarrassing, unlawful, and irresponsible behavior going viral, man up and pay up.

I moved back home after graduating from Virginia Tech. And that's when reality hit. I knew I had to do something. I guess it doesn't click when you're that young. I was 19 and had finished college. I got home and had to figure out what I was going to do.

At some point, being a fulfilled adult means taking responsibility for the course of your own life and accepting the fact that now you're in charge of your choices.

But she'd lost a good deal of her innocence there, because she'd discovered so much she couldn't control.

I think many people love their problems. Gives them all sorts of excuses for not growing up and getting on with life.

I think many people love their problems. Gives them all sorts of excuses for not growing up and getting on with life.' Myrna

think many people love their problems. Gives them all sorts of excuses for not growing up and getting on with life.

many people love their problems. Gives them all sorts of excuses for not growing up and getting on with life.

I think many people love their problems. Gives them all sorts of excuses for not growing up and getting

My sons have all grown now, so I'm down from five washers to one, but one takes just as long.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

She had come to the clinic because she didn't want to be a little girl anymore. But it wasn't having sex that made you a woman. It was having to make decisions, sometimes terrible ones. Children were told what to do. Adults made up their own minds, even when the options tore them apart.

I can't answer a single one of these, which is how I know that whether I'm ready or not, I'm growing up.

Now I know: adulthood is a line drawn in the sand. At some point, your child will be standing on the other side.

The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between imagination and resignation. You traded one for the other and lost your way.

Yes, this is what I thought adulthood would be, a kind of long indian summer, a state of tranquillity, of calm incuriousness, with nothing left of the barely bearable raw immediacy of childhood, all the things solved that had puzzled me when I was small, all mysteries settled, all questions answered, and the moments dripping away, unnoticed almost, drip by golden drip, toward the final, almost unnoticed, quietus.