Quotes About Adulthood

Things certainly aren't the way you imagine them when you're a kid and dreaming big dreams about what your life as a grown-up will look like.

You're not a little kid anymore. You need to make friends, get out of the house, and live your life.

Once you have done with school, you realise that it is just a smaller version of life, and really I have felt that I should have been an adult since I was aged about five.

To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents.

When you make that crossover from life to real life, when you're not treated as a child anymore but as a man, and you are no longer given the benefit of the doubt, it takes some courage to face that.

Life is different than it was in the Nineties. I'm a dad, and there are other things I have to get done in an afternoon than just being an artist.

When children reach the age of sixteen, they discover the meaning of life: car keys.

Whoa. If high school was suppose to be the best years of my life - at least so far - I was truly destined to have a sucky adulthood.

I just needed to get out on my own, live my own life. And I did, and it's great.

I spent so much of my younger life drinking, and being drunk makes learning to be a grown-up kind of hard.

I'm always preparing for a regular life.

Sometimes, she thought, life makes you grow up early. And some people never grow up at all.

It's kind of major, learning to drive. I feel like it kicked up other stuff in my life.

I'd always thought I would feel like an animal released from its cage when my student days were finished, I felt more like a bird that had been pushed from its nest and told it must fly.

This life is just your schooling for what you have to do when you graduate.

School is a foretaste of life.

My advice to graduates is to stay positive. Life is short, and you'll be dead soon.

In the old days, you became an adult when suddenly your life went from learning to doing the same thing for the rest of your life, but today you can't afford to do that.

Calvin: Life's a lot more fun when you aren't responsible for your actions.

All of us, as we mature and grow up - if we're doing life right - we evolve.

A single girl must lead a double life don't you think?

In a typical life cycle, prior to adulthood we consume more than we produce. As we acquire education and training, we contribute more to society than it takes to support us. During this period, a prudent or fortunate investor will accumulate wealth from which to draw upon later as he ages and reduces his income from work.

To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.

Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime!