Quotes About Adulthood

I taught myself to drive. I hope that the child in me never dies.

You lost your innocence when you grew up, all right, everyone knew that, but did you have to lose your hope, as well?

When I was young, I thought I was a bird at one time. Then they told me I can't fly, so I stopped flying.

I'm all groan up in America.

Growing old is compulsory - growing up is optional.

I have a lot of growing up to do. I realized that the other day inside my fort.

Adulthood feels like walking around in the desert with a bag over your head, being bumped into by people who rob you as they bore you.

He was not looking forward to breaking the law. He was straight now. He'd matured. Crime no longer excited him.What?' Ronald said.I didn't say anything.'You're breathing heavy.

Laywers, I suppose, were children once.

The creative adult is the child who has survived.

As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.

Was I the only woman in the world who, at my age - and after a lifetime of quite rampant independence - still did not quite feel grown up?

Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.

College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage.

[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived.

A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does

Growing older is mandatory, but growing up is optional.

Believe me, It would be better if we didn't meet again. Go back to school. Go back to your life. And next time they ask you, say no. Killing is for grown-ups and you're still a child.

A preserved childhood is better than a repaired adulthood

It's easy to grow old if you haven't grown up

A young girl needs to spread her wings, but a young woman needs roots.

We have expectations of our friends. I thought she was gone forever, off to Baby World, like all the other people in my life who've had children: Miriam,

I've had to be a man since I was 12 or 13. I had a job. And I was playing the piano for people twice my age. Handling responsibility is what makes a man a man.

The word t?l?t? means rite of growing up, becoming complete.