Quotes About Adulthood

Being a male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of choice.

Maturity does not match, with immaturity.

Sometimes being a grown-up sucked.

It can be just as present in adulthood as you see friends taking on careers, travel, moves, and relationships that you would fear. Yet deep inside you also know you have the same or more talent, desire, and potential.

By adolescence your family had taught you a great deal about how you can and should behave in the real world.

A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

When you're nearing 35, going, 'Hey Dad, I can't make these payments ' just isn't cool.

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 is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

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.

maturity consisted in accepting the turn that existence had taken without getting too upset

Aceptar que ser adultos es dejar de mostrarse, es aprender a ocultarse hasta desaparecer?

Então o que fazer? Mais uma vez dar razão a ela? Aceitar que ser adulto é parar de se mostrar, é aprender a se esconder até se dissipar?

Aquela sua última frase, o pulo elegante do maldizer ao elogio, parecia-me tão bem-sucedida que pensei que a normalidade adulta era uma rte deste tipo. Eu precisava aprender.

Pour moi, devenir, c'était devenir dans son sillage. Or, je devais recommencer à devenir mais pour moi, en tant qu'adulte, en dehors d'elle.

On the train, we promised each other to become adults as no one ever had before.

Il giorno seguente partii per Venezia insieme a Ida. In treno ci ripromettemmo di diventare adulte come a nessuna era mai successo.

Accept that to be adult is to disappear, is to learn to hide to the point of vanishing?

What he also records is his delight in discovering that, if only adults left him alone, he could, through reading, escape into a world of his own.

Plus he'd put on weight, become more solid in the way so many of us did after college, continuing to grow into manhood long after we thought we'd arrived.

Abel lifted her up - another gesture from former times, from when she'd been smaller - and carried her to the bathroom to find the Band-aid. Suddenly, Anna thought, she's growing up. One day, she'll be too big to be carried around like that. One day, he won't be able to hold onto her, she'll move on, and he'll be left all alone. Maybe the responsibility for Micha is more of an anchor than a burden. A lifeboat. A wooden plank to hold onto so you don't drown.

A sensible celeb parents keep always own children away from media limelight,paparazzi and shutterbugs until those kids become adults to start own profession.

Sometimes I don't feel like a functioning adult

I got married at 18 after dating my boyfriend for about a year. It was quick, I know. My husband joined the Army, and I thought I'd go to college. But we moved to Fort Hood for his job with no money, not even a car.

This industry kind of forces you to grow up very quickly.