Quotes About Adulthood

Until you're the person that other people fall back on, until you're the one that's leaned on, not the person doing the leaning, you're not an adult.

I grew up just as my friends did until 19 before leaving home, and it's because of that I am who I am now.

It was when I came back from Leeds that things started to change. I went from being a kid to having to man up and going into a man's game.

I think that New York liberated me in the sense that I moved here when I was 18, so it was a fresh perspective on life. I had been living in L.A. my whole life and I had never lived anywhere else, so being away from family and really making a name for myself was huge for me.

My son's going to have a job, and if he wants to get a car when he gets his license, he's going to pay for it on his own like I did.

Linking up the things you were with the things you become is what growing up is.

I didn't want to go to college. I wanted to move to Los Angeles right out of high school.

Losing my parents was the most crushing thing that ever happened to me. I lost my dad when I was 26, and it changed my life entirely.

I moved to L.A. when I was 17 and started making movies six months later.

I'm growing into my manhood body.

I moved into the Playboy Mansion at 18 years old.

Marriage is such a mark of adulthood in my mind.

Christopher discovered that you dealt with obnoxious masters and most older boys the way you dealt with governesses: you quite politely told them the truth in the way they wanted to hear it, so that they thought they had won and left you in peace.

We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative. Imaginative people fidget with ideas, including the idea of a relationship. If they're wordsmiths like us, they fidget a lot in words.

Boys do not leave their boyhood behind when they leave off their school uniform.

Find someone to push him ever sunward. There's always something you're not supposed to see but it is a condition of growing up that you will see it.

Too young for Korea, too old for Vietnam.

Someday you'll be a grown-up ... and then your mother will have no one to talk to.

adults forget how difficult that task was.

She did not care for children's books in which the children grew up, as what "growing up" entailed (in life as in books) was a swift and inexplicable dwindling of character; out of a clear blue sky the heroes and heroines abandoned their adventures for some dull sweetheart, got married and had families, and generally started acting like a bunch of cows.

With distaste, Harriet reflected upon how life had beaten down the adults she knew, every single grown-up. Something strangled them as they grew older, made them doubt their own powers-laziness? Habit? Their grip slackened; they stopped fighting and resigned themselves to what happened. That's Life. That's what they all said. That's Life, Harriet, that's just how it is, you'll see.

Kids shouting and skidding in the playground with no idea what future Hells awaited them: boring jobs and ruinous mortgages and bad marriages and hair loss and hip replacements and lonely cups of coffee in an empty house and a colostomy bag at the hospital.

Elle ne s'intéressait pas aux livres dans lesquels les enfants grandissaient, car (dans la vie comme en littérature) ce processus entrainait un affaiblissement accéléré et inexplicable du caractère ; de façon totalement inattendue, les héros et les héroïnes renonçaient à leurs aventures pour un amour insipide, se mariaient et fondaient une famille, et, en général, se comportaient comme un troupeau de vaches.

the vast majority of children are not trained in the way they should go, for when they reach adulthood, they do not walk with God.