Quotes About Adulthood

Healthy boys grow into healthy men.

When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.

It seems like the more you grow up the more you fear things.

Be absolutely assured that we will die long before our own deaths if we ever allow the fear of adulthood to kill the wonder of childhood.

Most people grow old, but not everybody grows up.

I think it's funny how people think they are adults just because they're over 18. It's not about your age, it's about how you act.

Life is weird, first you wanna grow up, then you wanna be a kid again

As you get older and your responsibilites become greater, your attitude and way of thinking changes.

Sure, popularity is the thing in high school. Let's see how that'll work for you in the real world where no one cares.

Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.

I dont see why girls feel the need to have children as teenagers, you have your whole life for that. Grow up and get your priorities right.

In this day and age, some turn 18 and think they're a man or a woman and that's it, but that's just not true. You have to establish your manhood or your womanhood with actions.

Growing up is never easy. You hold on to things that were. You wonder what's to come. But that night, I think we knew it was time to let go of what had been, and look ahead to what would be. Other days. New days. Days to come. The thing is, we didn't have to hate each other for getting older. We just had to forgive ourselves... for growing up.

I became at once a man, and did what all we grown men do when face to face with suffering and injustice; I preferred not to see them;

Penso che da giovani si combatte per sconfiggere i peccati capitali senza sapere che nell'età adulta non saranno le virtù a neutralizzarli, bensì i peccati stessi. Per esempio, a lungo andare la gola prende il sopravvento sulla vanità e l'ignavia sulla lussuria.

No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.

Now sit down and shut up, you autocratic frat boy. It's adult swim.

It is, perhaps, part of the human condition that children, as they grow to adulthood, must disentangle themselves from who their parents dreamt they might be, in order to figure out who they really are or hope to be. For

We thought we were running away from the grown-ups, and now we're the grown-ups.

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

Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than it naturally unfolded. I cheated myself out of a childhood but then got a running headstart into adulthood that no one else could keep up with.

As people grow up, they teach themselves to do what distinguishes adults from children: they will choke and cough until they have mastered the cigarette, or force themselves to down bitter beer until they are ready to join the group that actually likes it.

So I grew. And as I grew I learned that in the world beyond family and family friends, your mistakes—bad manners, poor taste, an excess of high spirits—could put you, your parents, and your people at risk.