Quotes About Adulthood

When I was a kid, my parents smartly raised us to keep quiet, be respectful to older people, and generally not question adults all that much. I think that's because they were assuming that 99 percent of the time, we'd be interacting with worthy, smart adults... They didn't ever tell me 'Sometimes you will meet idiots who are technically adults and authority figures. You don't have to do what they say.

Sometimes you will meet idiots who are technically adults and authority figures. You don't have to do what they say. You can calmly say, 'Can I first call my mom and ask if I have to do this, please?

Hard work is such a weird thing. As children and teenagers you are told it's a really good thing, but for adults it suddenly becomes the worst thing in the world.

But a guy at thirty-two—he can act and dress like a grown man or a thirteen-year-old boy, and both are totally acceptable.

People naturally change a lot during their 20s, so my songs reflect that progression.

However, now she was a schoolgirl no longer. She had discovered how to manage her hair, had been to one or two parties and a night club, and laid on lipstick with the idea that each layer was a layer of sophistication.

I had been riding horses before my memory kicked in, so my life with horses had no beginning. It simply appeared from the fog of infancy. I survived a difficult childhood by traveling on the backs of horses, and in adulthood the pattern didn't change.

Adults aren't allowed to cry when they fall off a bike or hit their thumb with a hammer, but they can howl like five year olds when they've got a duty free bag in their hands.

Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?

Everything seems possible during childhood, but things start to change as we age and face the realities of the universe.

From young age to adulthood, love is all about seeking interest in your partner. Pure love only comes in old age, when all the fire of youth is extinguished.

You must be willing to pay the price of being called an "adult". Stop and reflect upon your life.

I don't understand how to grow up," she cried, sinking into Robin's arms. "I'm so scared we're going to die here and I'll never figure it out.

The truth is, it's impossible for any parent to know what his or her child will be like as an adult. But we can tell you that the sensory smart child of sensory smart parents is a person who is empowered to take responsibility for himself, for his body, and for his behavior. That's an outstanding quality any parent would be proud to see in a child.

No wonder we spend our adult lives feeling we're simply pretending to know what we're doing. After sixteen years spent doing exams, where the lessons we've received perfectly fit the challenges we're faced with, our preparation for the unpredictable events of normal life will always seem shoddy and haphazard.

But that wasn't my business. Esti was a grown woman,

You don't have to be 'adults'... but be someone who can take responsibility for their own words and actions. Believe it or not, that's actually harder.

What a great and happy place the world was! But you had to be big and grown-up before you could do just what you liked.

Charlie and I both felt very adult that last year of college, very experienced: I think we believed that what we'd achieved academically was akin to growing up, rather than something we might have done in place of it.

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

lay a lost and delightful world, the world of my childhood, the world of sweet and irresponsible days at Qunu and Mqhekezweni. Now I was a man, and I would never again play thinti, or steal maize, or drink milk from a cow's udder.

Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.

Even now, I struggle to convince myself that I'm a fully grown adult, doing fully adult things. I'm not sure the ageing, wrinkled exterior ever quite convinces the innocent inner child that this is the real deal, that this is what's really happening.