Quotes About Adulthood

I turned thirty, and suddenly I was at that point in your life where you want to eat Fruity Pebbles, but you're concerned about the fiber content.

I remember my wife and I used to get on plane and see everybody else with their babies. They'd be putting strollers and car seats up above, and we'd think: Oh, please Lord, don't make us go through that.

L'éducation ne se borne pas à l'enfance et à l'adolescence. L'enseignement ne se limite pas à l'école. Toute la vie, notre milieu est notre éducation, et un éducateur à la fois sévère et dangereux. Learning transcends childhood and adolescence just as teaching transcends the classroom. Our environment is the most strict and dangerous educator we will ever have.

It's not easy being so frightened of everything. And when I think of how much I've improved in the last year, I wonder when I'll ever get finished with making changes and be really grown up.

Can anyone tell you when you're grown up?" Another

The games had prepared Ruta for his future, and should have prepared me for mine, too. The manoeuvres had become riskier and more difficult, but maybe each was the same when you got down to it. Jumping had taught me how to jump, hadn't it? I only had to look at Ruta to know he wasn't a child any more. Neither was I. The

the days of the young, when they gulped the air and lived to see the better world, the grown-up world, when they could not wait for the days to end so that they could get on with the rest of their lives.

Just so you know... Even if I don't break it... alot of people break their own Egg. All those adults walking around with tired faces... they've thrown away the "person they want to be.

Many abandoned children enter adulthood feeling that the world is a dangerous place where they are ill-equipped to defend themselves

Experiencing one's own inadequacies and still going on in spite of them are two of the greatest achievements of adulthood.

Only now, on the other side of his success, Bruce had come to understand what time and experience can do to the most closely held dreams. The point in your late twenties when you're grown up enough to realize that 'life is no longer wide open'.

I always looked forward to being an adult, because I thought the adult world was, well—adult. That adults weren't cliquey or nasty, that the whole notion of being cool, or in, or popular would case to be the arbiter of all things social, but I was beginning to realize that the adult world was as nonsensically brutal and socially perilous as the kingdom of childhood.

Siempre he esperado con ilusión hacerme adulto, porque pensaba que el mundo adulto era... bueno... adulto, que los adultos no eran exclusivistas ni desagradables, que la idea de ir a la última o de ser sofisticado o popular dejaría de marcar la vida social, pero empezaba a darme cuenta de que el mundo de los adultos era tan absurdamente brutal y peligoros en lo social como lo era en el reino de la infancia.

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.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Nor is she yours, not any more,' Greg replied. 'No longer your little girl. She makes her own choices now.

Maybe this is where his humanity lies, in the traces of growing up with a sense of unfathomable insecurity: the need to plan, to make his world predictable.

Wydoro?le? znaczy najpierw zapomnie?, a potem zaprzeczy? temu, co by?o wa?ne, gdy si? by?o dzieckiem.

Woe to you, O land whose king is a youth, and whose princes feast in the morning.