Quotes About Adulthood

I left home when I was just 17, finished up high school, and went to work.

I think a lot of your 20s is trying to figure out who you are - you're on your own; you've got you first job. You've got your first apartment. You're living away from your parents. You're just discovering who you are.

I've always loved TV very much, and as a child I was so religious with it, but now it's more when it fits in.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

When you're doing something you're not used to, you kind of realize that you're still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you're expected to act like an adult, you still haven't actually grown up.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

I always knew I was brainy. It struck me when I was a child that I wanted to be an adult because I never felt I belonged among children whose minds were so much simpler than mine.

I got all my politics and culture and my sense of the great wide world of adults from 'Mad Magazine.' But all other comic books literally gave me a headache.

It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood.

The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.

I was kind of lucky because I was fit and healthy when I was in my teens, got a bit wild in my 20s, and stopped round about my 30s.

I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately. As children, we tend to copy our parents.

Looking back, I realise I had to grow up and be responsible at a very tender age.

I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.

What I would love for my 30s is to just not have expectations. I don't want to assume anything about my 30s based on my 20s other than just keeping the lessons I've learned, but in terms of what I think should happen with those lessons, I don't know.

'Girl in the City Chapter 2' will still continue to revolve around Meera Sehgal and her life, her friends, and her passion. The stark difference in 'Chapter 2' will be that all the characters have now grown up in the series - in terms of maturity if not so much age.

I was terrified of being a mum because I didn't think I'd ever be grown up enough.

You can't have whatever you want. But to a child who must ask permission for every single thing, adulthood looks like a constant parade of every desire's satisfaction. It is a heady and terrifying place. It is the Otherworld. It is Fairyland. In fantasy, we make this literal.

The powerlessness of the child is often forgotten. And after it comes the terrifying phase of moving into adulthood.

I feel that if you shelter your kids from everything, one day they are going to be out in the world on their own, and they are going to have to figure it out. You can't give them a test if you never taught them anything that's on the test. They're going to fail.

Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity.

We grow up believing that love is like a fairytale that comes with all things good. What no one points out is how hard it is to live up to love or the tests along the way, small or big.

When I was a child, I spoke like child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child, when I became a man, I went on the internet, and spoke like a child, and thought like a child, and reasoned like child.

Still,' whispered Jack, 'you have to keep at it. Overcome the miseries of vomiting and the whirling pit. Pay your dues and work towards the real rewards of big-time adult drinking. Something to look forward to.