Quotes About Adulthood

I was kind of a misfit, and when my mother died, I had to become an adult, something that I never thought I would ever be.

When your mother dies, you're not a little girl any more.

Even if you're not in a new place every day and not in the music industry, your tastes in music and fashion and everything are going to change drastically between 16 and 21.

I'd say to all kids, don't have a tattoo until you're 21.

When I started to pay income tax, I was 50 years old.

I do my taxes. I do my own bookkeeping. I pay rent.

We need to teach our children empathy and care and love and communication and social responsibility in preparation for adulthood.

I think the most important thing my wife Cynthia and I can do for Kristen is to teach her how to grow up to be a woman and make her own decisions. Meanwhile, we sometimes have to guide her.

You grow up, no one really teaches you about taxes, especially as an athlete.

Coach Boeheim, he's really not like a lot of coaches. We don't do shoot-arounds, we don't have curfews. So I think he teaches you how to be a man and how to be responsible for yourself.

I learned so much because I moved out of my mom's when I was 18. It teaches you to be responsible, to be independent.

He has no right to threaten my boyfriends. I'm eighteen. An adult. I don't need his help. I can threaten my boyfriends myself." Mead, Richelle (2010-05-18). Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel (p. 39). Penguin Young Readers Group. Kindle Edition.

Oh, I would have seen it all, eventually, but it needed to happen to a boy; the world loses much of its wonder about the time you pay your first water bill.

When you make that crossover from life to real life, when you're not treated as a child anymore but as a man, and you are no longer given the benefit of the doubt, it takes some courage to face that.

I'm a big girl, Finn.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

When I grew up, people said, 'You'll never be the man your dad was.' And I said, 'Gee, I hope not.'

You have to get older. Growing up is negotiable.

You have blundered into an adult existence you don't understand, and you can't tell whether you planned it this way or whether you screwed up big-time, though it's too late either way.

Como la vida adulta es aburrida y acomodaticia, nos creamos la ilusión de que la infancia es una especie de edad de oro

Unlike other animals, we humans retain what is known as neoteny—mental and physical traits of immaturity—well into our adult years. We have the remarkable capability of returning to a childlike spirit, especially in moments in which we must learn something. Well into our fifties and beyond, we can return to that sense of wonder and curiosity, reviving our youth and apprenticeships.

You may be old enough to marry, Matrim Cauthon, but in truth you shouldn't be off your mother's apron strings.

Pretty straightforwardly, the more categories of adversities a child suffers, the dimmer his or her chances of a happy, functional adulthood.45

THE DELAYED MATURATION of the frontal cortex suggests an obvious scenario, namely that early in adolescence the frontal cortex has fewer neurons, dendritic branches, and synapses than in adulthood, and that levels increase into the midtwenties. Instead, levels decrease.