Quotes About Adulthood

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

A good rule of thumb is if you've made it to thirty-five and your job still requires you to wear a name tag, you've made a serious vocational error.

Past a certain point it is not interesting to think about childhood as the central drama and adulthood as its reprise.

In most states, on the day that a child in foster care turns eighteen, these supports largely disappear. The people who once attended to that child's needs are now either unable or unwilling to continue; a new case demands their time, a new child requires the bed.

Quando si diventa adulti, non si ascolta più, e quando si ascolta, per sbaglio, lo si fa con la condiscendenza divertita i chi crede di aver vissuto.

known the security of love, as a child and as an adult.

Walking away was easy, it was staying around and sorting out your own shit that took guts, that made you a man.

Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really care whether so-and-so does or does not succeed in satisfying his physiological uneasiness by the aid of some particular person or not.

People won't like me for saying it but a major cause of marital problems today are men who want to remain boys, and women who want to be men.

You may write it on his tombstone, You may cut it on his card, That a young man married is a young man marred

Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults

A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up

you can't keep eating pancakes with chocolate and powdered sugar on them for the rest of your life. Thirty years from now, you'll understand why your mom's eating fish, and I'm pretending to enjoy this turkey bacon that tastes like paper.

How much smaller the large places are once we're grown up, when we have car keys and credit cards.

A clever girl may pass through the phase of foolish miss on the way to sensible woman.

All these years you have made a boy of him. But with me, he shall be a man

A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.

Only a child expects life to be just; it's a man's part to stand by the consequences of his deeds.

Children, I grant, should be innocent but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

I supposed this is what is meant by 'growing up'...Find out the difference between what one expected one's life would be like and how things really are" -Lady Constance

Cuando los adultos se aplican, superan siemrpe un nuevo umbral de crueldad

Saya sudah mengulur-ulur waktu menjadi dewasa, dan pikiran tentang kehidupan saya selanjutnya sebagai orang dewasa menaungi saya bagai gumpalan awan gelap yang sekarang mulai pecah dan menurunkan hujan