Quotes About Adulthood

Once I turned 40, my whole life changed in the most mature - not boring way but much cooler way. I feel much more like an adult.

A lot of us as adults haven't learned how to cope with our feelings, deal with our anger or work through the pain of our childhoods.

I never thought I would be married at 23, but that's the fun thing about life - you don't know what is waiting for you at the next corner.

I'm kind of living my life, and I feel like I'm still young, I'm 34... I'm just enjoying married life and trying to deal with this COVID thing.

At 21, you've come out of the craziness. Maybe you've been to university, but now it's time to get serious. It's the age where you make decisions about your life.

Since I was an adult, I've always lived in the centre of London - King's Cross, Bloomsbury - and never thought I'd leave.

I skipped N64, but I got it later when I was older. I got Game Cube first, then N64 after that actually.

I didn't have a cup of coffee until I was 27.

Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents.

The girls grew up playing in my closet - trying on my shoes, etc. Now the tables have turned.

I'd be lying if I said I didn't want to look and feel like a grown woman when I was young. That's one reason why it's important to hold adults who take advantage of that fully accountable.

I was a mama's girl. So when I had to go to Korea without mom, I felt that I had to take care of myself now. I was 14, such a kid. I didn't speak any Korean. I only knew how to say 'hello,' so it really was a new start.

I was out of the house at 16 by my own doing. It forced me to really grow up and take care of myself, and I learned a lot of things that your parents usually teach you, on my own.

I know it's horrible to have to admit that, but I'm not adult enough to take care of a child.

I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody's going to take care of you. That you have to do the heavy lifting while you're here. And when you don't, well, you suffer the consequences.

Why would any parent want their kid on their health-care plan when they are 26? Parents want their kids to grow up and take care of themselves. A 26-year-old is an adult.

I think it just helps to be very aware that fundamentally, there are no adults. Everyone is making it up as they go along. You have to find your own path, picking, choosing, taking and discarding as you see fit.

As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

As you get a little older and start drinking a bit more coffee, you start talking about big-boy things a little more.

I always think that I'm still this 13-year old boy that doesn't really know how to be an adult, pretending to live my life, taking notes for when I'll really have to do it.

Dance. Dance for the joy and breath of childhood. Dance for all children, including that child who is still somewhere entombed beneath the responsibility and skepticism of adulthood. Embrace the moment before it escapes from our grasp. For the only promise of childhood, of any childhood, is that it will someday end. And in the end, we must ask ourselves what we have given our children to take its place. And is it enough?

My God, he couldn't help thinking, how terrible it is to be that age, to have emotions so near the surface that the slightest turbulence causes them to boil over. That, very simply, was what adulthood must be all about -- acquiring the skill to bury things more deeply. Out of sight and, whenever possible, out of mind.

When Mark Twain was told in 1905 by the librarian of the Brooklyn Public Library that copies of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn had been removed from the shelves of the children's room, he replied, "I wrote Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn for adults exclusively, and it always distresses me when I find that boys and girls have been allowed access to them. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean.