Quotes About Adulthood

Parent and child may both love, but - unbeknown to the child - each party is on a different end of the axis. This is why, in adulthood, when we first long for 'love', what we mean is that we want to 'be loved' as we were once loved by a parent.

You're working with adults and you're being paid to do a job. And you're a kid. Then you go back to high school, and everybody's partying, and they're doing math. I always felt a little bit outside of it. Outside of both experiences, really.

I'm only interested in rites of passage stories.

For many of us, owning a home signaled a passage into adulthood that coincided with the start of a career and family.

I want to understand rites of passage I've never experienced, like motherhood.

Everyone has their dates. For me, it's 1991. I can place every memory of my life either before or after this date. It's the year I became an adult. My mother died, and I created my company shortly thereafter. I definitely would not have done it if she hadn't passed away.

When my dad passed, I felt like I had to grow up very quickly.

Men don't have to grow up like women do. Women are expected to grow up with every year that passes. Men can get away with being kids until they're at least 40 - I did.

The things that have happened for me, to me, have helped me grow up. Especially the passing of my father. That was something that took me to another level of growing and maturing. That's whan I started to be more of a man.

Forgetting the injustices and seeming injustices which one suffered from one's parents during childhood and youth must be the major part of any maturing process. I kept repeating this to myself, as though it were a lesson I would at some future time be accountable for. A certain oblivion was what we must undergo in order to become adults and live peacefully with ourselves.

At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.

Joseph had graduated from high school, but did not want to go to school anymore. He had met Sofia, and he wanted to work and save so he could settle down with her. He, like his brothers, had had enough of living under Julian's tyrannical rule. Joseph lived with Robert until Robert secured a job in Morinze, Arizona, a four-hour drive from El Paso. Joseph then began living with Sofia, his childhood sweetheart.

you can't keep children in the nursery forever. If you do, they never become grown-ups, but they're not really children either. They are just pets.

Is this what it means to become an adult? Giving up the beliefs which reassure us, which help us to survive?

Le problème, voyez-vous, c'est que quand on est grand, on oublie, on oublie presque tout, et on oublie surtout qu'on a été enfant.

Children are born with imaginations in mint condition, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Then life corrects for grandiosity.

I'm social and I meet people and talk to people but I'm not looking for the ideal person to fit my mold and to raise my family with yet. I'm just kind of doing my thing and learning from the people I'm around and who I cross paths with.

I didn't actually begin photographing, or even visit New York, for the first time until I was 26.

I'm not a huge party girl. When I turned 18, the thing I was most excited about was being able to vote for the first time.

I didn't have my first car until after the end of my senior year. I got a Yukon Sport.

Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.

Men back up their words. Little boys run away.

Not that being so mature is a bad thing, but there are times to be mature and there are times to be loose.

I didn't have a childhood, really, because I worked my whole life and... other reasons. So when I had some success, I went ballistic. That was my childhood, and the party kept going on.