Quotes About Adulthood

Adulthood involves learning to conclusively bury a great many of our hopes.

If you do grow up feeling as though you don't quite fit in as a child, it's very easy to decide you're certain not going to fit in as an adult. You hang on to your eccentricities and hate the idea of conforming. It's a common pattern.

Juno MacGuff: I was out handling things way beyond my maturity level.

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

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?

guy trips over the age thirty wire, he realizes that certain things he wanted in his life just aren't going to happen.

Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.

I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?

The function of the child is to live his own life - not the life that his anxious parents think he should live.

The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.

Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.

There is a point in every young person's life when you realize that the youth that you've progressed through and graduate to some sort of adulthood is equally as messed up as where you're going.

The older you get the more capable you get at managing life.

Education is no longer thought of as a preparation for adult life, but as a continuing process of growth and development from birth until death.

I just feel like all the things that I do in my life just make me feel like a grown-up kid. That's pretty much what I am.

College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life.

If you act like an adult when you're a kid you can afford to act like a kid the rest of your life.

I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.

The day you graduate from childhood to adulthood is the day you take full responsibility for your life.

It snuck up on me—growing up, I mean.

Things weren't the same with us, not right away, and maybe not ever. We were growing up. We were still figuring out how to be in each other's lives without being everything to each other.

And then I had a thought, clear as day. I would never be somebody's favorite again. I would never be a kid again, not in the same way. That was all over now. She was really gone.

As you grow up you spend less and less time outside. Nobody can say "Go play outside" to you anymore to you.

You should head back up," Jeremiah said, putting his beer down. "Your mom will kill you for drinking." "Hello. I'm not drinking," I reminded him. Clay offered me his Corona. "Here," he said, winking. He seemed drunk. I hesitated, and Conrad snapped irritably, "Don't give her that. She's a kid, for God's sake.