Quotes About Adulthood

They are the last American generation to remember the years of the Great Depression, and the last to know a time before the end of World War II. Unlike the Greatest generation just before them, who were adults at the time, Silents experienced these events as children and adolescents. Nearly all Silents were born too late to serve in World War II, creating a dividing line in generational experience.

The more I study men, the more I realize that they are nothing in the world but boys grown too big to be spankable.

Too young to hold on and too old to just break free and run

Boys do what they want to do, men do what they have to do."?Steve Williams

But to become an adult, one must step into the field of honor. Everything will be expected of you now. You will need to be vigilant in your principles. Sacrifices will be demanded. You will be judged. If you make mistakes, you must account for them. There will be instances when you must cast aside your impulses and take a higher stance than another person—a person without honor—might take. Such instances may hurt, but that's why honor is a painful field.

Children don't have any honor, you see, and they aren't expected to, because it's too difficult for them. It's too painful. But to become an adult, one must step into the field of honor. Everything will be expected of you now. You will need to be vigilant in your principles. Sacrifices will be demanded. You will be judged.

It's only that I've waited so long to grow up, but now there's nothing worth growing up for.

It's only that I've waited so long to grow up, but now there's nothing worth growing up for," she said. "Just all this fighting, fighting, fighting, and working, working, working. It makes a person weary.

Helen was happy for them, and disdainful, and jealous of them for getting more of each other while she got less of them, and, mostly, astonished-that life could actually move forward like this into adulthood.

There came a moment, she imagined, in the lives of most unmarried daughters, and perhaps in other people's too, when they must either bolt or go permanently under.

It's being a grown up, which I never figured out how to do, scrubbing the tub, and remembering to eat and shampoo my hair. It's the basics: I can write a whole book, but I cannot handle the basics.

Getting old is pathetic if you use it as an excuse for no longer being responsible.

Perhaps they're opening up a world I'm only just starting to see the edges of. An adult world. It's scary and I don't like it.

They were all in their early thirties. An age at which it is sometimes hard to admit that what you are living is your life.

Dan begrijp je maar al te goed waarom je nergens een volwassene ziet rondspringen die zegt: 'Joepie, ik ben een loonslaaf! Wat heb ik toch een pret!' - David (Claire's vader)

She'd been a hard taskmistress - How can you be a grown-up if you can't look after yourself? she'd challenged - but she had taught him what no Greek mother ever taught a son: the basic humdrum skills required for independence.

Somewhere between childhood and adulthood we can lose our sense of conscience if we're not careful.

Growing up shouldn't mean giving up.

Eventually kids become grown-ups too, and from there, the world is whatever they choose to make of it.

You should stop and listen to yourselves sometimes. 'We're practically adults, let us run wild.' 'We're only kids, leave us alone.'... You can't have it both ways.

You wanted to be treated like grown-ups? Well, that includes both the good and the bad.

All grown up and breaking hearts…" She raised her eyebrows. "And rules.

Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.

Tengo veintitrés años y todavía no he encontrado lo que buscaba. Por eso me gusta la vida. A los veintitrés años, es bueno no haber descubierto tu camino.