Quotes About Adulthood

When I'm 18, I can finally order that paid programming stuff on TV. Like it always says, 'Must be 18 or older to call,' so I'll be able to call! I can finally buy some blenders from the TV.

Indeed, an entire generation of Americans has grown to adulthood since the Roe decision of 1973, which held that the right to choose an abortion was a privacy right protected by our Constitution.

One of the most distinctive evolutionary features of human beings is our unusually long, protected childhood.

the collection of sombre and bulky objects that had stood in his father's dressing room; indestructable presents for his wedding and twenty-first birthday, ivory, brass bound, covered in pigskin, crested and gold mounted, suggestive of expensive Edwardian masculinity--racing flasks and hunting flasks, cigar cases, tobacco jars, jockeys, elaborate meerschaum pipes, button hooks and hat brushes.

Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

As he put in his studs he realized that he was enjoying life as he would probably never enjoy it again. Everything was hallowed by the haze of his own youth. He had arrived, abreast of the best in his generation at Princeton. He was in love and his love was returned.

After marriage came elation, and then, gradually, the growth of weariness. Responsibility descended upon Merlin, the responsibility of making his thirty dollars a week and her twenty suffice to keep them respectably fat and to hide with decent garments the evidence that they were.

Ho sempre pensato che fino ai diciotto anni, niente importi», disse Mary. «È vero», concordò Abe. «E dopo è uguale».

I tend toward more adult fare, and I would love to do a voice in an animated film or something the boys could go see, but at a certain point, I made peace with myself about it.

Fashion is a growing love that probably started when I got into my 20s.

I have a lot of eyes on me because of basketball, a lot of young people looking up to me. It's made me grow up faster.

I bottled up all my emotions and forced myself to grow up faster than I needed to.

I've always had to grow up faster than what I am.

You can really find yourself at sea when you're becoming an adult and suddenly have to feed yourself for the first time.

Any mature, responsible adult doesn't run around stomping their feet and screaming 'I'm a mature, responsible, adult.'

My mother's incredible diaries, which she'd written from when she was 21, and even before that. She fell in love with my father when she was 12.

Dahl was my favorite author as a child. When I got older, I discovered his adult stories and fell even more in love with him.

You don't become a fully-formed human as a female, or even a male, until you're at least 30.

When you grow up, life makes you so busy that you completely lose the excitement around a festival.

Fifteen years old, out in the world, acting was all I had.

I don't think men figure out what they're really about until they're 25. That's when they start to feel like themselves.

You're not supposed to have it all figured out in high school. If you knew it all, and it was the best, it's all downhill from there.

I think the beauty of growing up is not really knowing and figuring it out for yourself.

I am private because I'm still figuring things out. I'm young! I'm making it up as I go!