Quotes About Adulthood

Instead of being born again, why not just grow up?

Wrinkled was not one of the things I wanted to be when I grew up.

I thought growing up was something that happened automatically as you got older. But it turns out it's something you have to choose to do.

Mother Nature is wonderful. Children get too old for piggy-back rides just about the same time they get too heavy for them.

Strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age.

Your schooling may be over, but remember that your education still continues.

Por eso necesitamos adquirir otra vez la vitalidad y apertura del niño. No podemos permanecer infantiles, porque entonces no avanzaríamos en el proceso de nuestro desarrollo. El arte de vivir consiste por una parte en hacernos progresivamente más maduros y más adultos, pero por otra parte en conservar vivo en nosotros el niño interior.

As I walked towards travel, that illusion of liberation, I strangely felt myself walking back into childhood.

We all grew up before we were grown up.

The straining of dreams against the fabric of reality. Growing up meant burying possibilities, one after another.

Artillery has stopped for the moment, and the predawn fires inside the walls take on a steady middle life, an adulthood.

These days we have no true childhood, only a diseased precocity, introducing children to things that any decent man of Whittier's day, or of Armstrong's, would have considered unutterably vile. Therefore we have no true adulthood either, only a prolonged infantility, a curdled adolescence followed by old age and death.

Believe me, It would be better if we didn't meet again. Go back to school. Go back to your life. And next time they ask you, say no. Killing is for grown-ups and you're still a child.

For a year after I left Cambridge, I had an agent, and I was working in a pub and doing waitering. But I could stay at home rent-free.

I usually say I left puberty at 58.

Looking at me now, it might be hard to believe that I didn't even have hair in my armpits when I graduated from high school. I guarantee you I was the last guy to go through puberty in my class.

When you're growing up in the public eye, it's hard to go from a girl into a woman in front of everyone.

Well, when I moved to L.A. at 17, I had just come out of high school. I grew up and went to public school in Boston.

I spent five years of my childhood in Port Elgin and came back to spend another five years of my young adulthood there as well, including the years in which I was first published.

I think, when you are growing up, you have to pull apart from what your mother wants or needs. You've got to go your own way, and that's what I did.

Pulling away from your parents, that's the natural thing to do; that's how life progresses.

Most women have learned a great deal about how to set goals for our First Adulthood and how to roll with the punches when we hit a rough passage. But we're less prepared for our Second Adulthood as we approach life after retirement, where there are no fixed entrances or exits, and lots of sand into which it is easy to bury our heads.

I still live very much by punk ethics, but in a more grown up way.

I'm not responsible enough to have puppies.