Quotes About Adulthood

We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.

I might grow old in Brisbane, but I would never grow up.

God knows it's a sign of a really sick mind to see grown people, adults with responsibilities, wearing class rings.

Adults devise a plan and follow it, children do what feels good.

I don't have a kid, but I think that I would be a good father, especially if my baby liked to go out drinking.

It wasn't a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.

When you're in an industry where you're forced to grow up so quickly, part of you never grows up, and that's a good thing.

I'm not used to be the adult. I'm not very good at being the adult. To some regard, I wanted to just hang out and joke around, like I would normally, but I had to try to find the movie to shoot.

So, what's it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it.

Grow up and let anyone try to content with the adult you.

Could it be that by protecting our kids from unhappiness as children, we're depriving them of happiness as adults?

I had a job at a movie theater for like a year and a half and then a job at a health food store for like two years. Those were the only two jobs I ever had.

Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you.

I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Another thing I liked about my Dad at church: he did his sleeping at home. He never used the church as an adult nursery.

Figuring out how to eat healthfully on your own without your parents' guidance is one of the hardest lessons you must learn when you leave home for college.

I'm quite good at going away from home. I don't live with my parents or anything. But it is tough when you're so far away from everyone.

Things at home didn't change much. I still have to clean my own room!

So when I was 13, I basically left home and never returned and lived at home again. I would come home for a week at Christmas and two weeks in the summer only.

I lived at home till I was 29.

But where, after we have made the great decision to leave the security of childhood and move on into the vastness of maturity, does anybody ever feel completely at home?

I never even had a bachelorhood: I went straight from my parents' home to a marriage.

Things change…things happen…things you can't even imagine when you're young and full of hope.