Quotes About Adulthood

I wanted to do pretty much a purely boy story, yes. The girls are kind of the bad guys in 'Marble Season', although that wasn't my intention. It's also a world without adults.

I don't want the child in me to die. Fortunately, I'm lucky enough that my profession allows me to pursue my boyhood fantasies even as an adult.

When I was a kid, the people that used to push other people around, if someone whacked them, then they wouldn't be pushing people around again. But you can't really do that with adults.

I remember my wife and I used to get on plane and see everybody else with their babies. They'd be putting strollers and car seats up above, and we'd think: Oh, please Lord, don't make us go through that.

I never had much interest in being a child. As a way of being it seemed flat, failed to engage.

I thought about my future. In 10 years' time, I would be in the same position as when I started - the best dancer in the world, but still sharing a flat. You're an adult, but you live like a kid.

It's not a character flaw to become an adult.

I feel a lot older than I am but at the same time I don't want to play too old on T.V. I still want to be young. I still want to be 20 and enjoy this period of my life where I still have that flexibility.

I lived in Florida until I was 22.

When I first came into the league, I followed my parents for everything. Now, I'm really doing stuff on my own.

I look so fondly back on that time in my life when you first got an agent and you were in your mid-twenties and the world was your oyster.

I feel as though I've fooled the world into thinking I'm an adult and now they're letting me procreate.

A lot of my friends were fooling around with drugs then.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

I was a conservative kid, but I had fun. I was in a fraternity and stuff. I wasn't a player - that's for sure.

When you get to be 23, 24 or 25, you start to freeze up and become an adult.

Going from college to being on national TV almost fresh outta school, it happened really fast.

There's nothing more adult than being ripped away from friends and family, you know? Having to manage a life when you're not fully there, manage a life when you don't make a lot of money. It's very adult.

I wasn't frightened of people, but I didn't have a clue about the adult world.

I think I was a bit frightened of having to be a grownup and tried to put that off for as long as I could.

No one, however powerful and successful, can function as an adult if his parents are not satisfied with him.

Cuando yo era niño, hablaba,pensaba y razonaba como un niño; pero cuando crecí, dejé atrás las cosas de niño. 1 CORINTIOS 13:11

Religion is the emulation of the adult by the child. Religion is the encystment of past beliefs: mythology, which is guesswork, the hidden assumptions of trust in the universe, those pronouncements which men have made in search of personal power, all of it mingled with shreds of enlightenment. And always the ultimate unspoken commandment is 'Thou shalt not question!

How soon this child must assume his manhood, Halleck thought. How soon he must read that form within his mind, that contract of brutal caution, to enter the necessary fact on the necessary line: 'Please list your next of kin.