Quotes About Adulthood

When there's an adult person who's scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.

One quintessential moment in time is when you're 22, when you graduate college. And then another quintessential time is as a middle-age man. That's the convergence.

I had to grow up quite quickly.

I remember my dad telling me that if I wanted to start racing motocross, I had to get a job and pay for it myself. So I did. As soon as I was able to drive myself to work, I got into racing motocross at age 15.

I'm social and I meet people and talk to people but I'm not looking for the ideal person to fit my mold and to raise my family with yet. I'm just kind of doing my thing and learning from the people I'm around and who I cross paths with.

Once you've raised a child to adulthood, you can only be as demanding as your offspring allow.

My grandfather was raising me, and in many respects, I was trying to understand what it meant to be a man. He was my role model.

The childhood games ended for me when I was 14 and I finished school. I had to find a job, not an easy thing in those days.

I used to say that I got to Germany as a boy but I left as a man.

My dad told me when I was very young, that I should not get married before 30. His only advice to me was to live my life.

I was a boy, so I decided to get married and then I will be a man.

In every kid's life, there's about three or four years when you're at liberty, and after that, you have to get a job because you're getting married or you have to support your parents or whatever it is. I was lucky: I didn't get married, so I didn't have to have that responsibility.

I think once you're past 30 you shouldn't wear a lot of glitter.

I want so many artists that I care about to go away and grow up, and have been amazed at how hard that is for some people to do.

As a goalkeeper, you feel like if you're treated like adults and have your position explained to you, you respect that. You might not agree with it, but you get on with it.

A good book written for children can be read by adults.

This is no occupation for an adult who can look other adults in the eye, carry his own weight, and count himself one of them.

Les adultes-enfants m'ennuient, ce sont des cannibales. Ils ne sont propres qu'à se nourrir de la vitalité des autres. Ils ne se perçoivent pas. Et parce qu'ils ne se perçoivent pas, ils ne peuvent pas vivre, et ne sont rien d'autre qu'avides, du regard ou du sang de quelques autres.

I knew that my dollhouse was a toy, but in a way, it seemed more like a portal to adulthood. I didn't play with it the way I might with my Barbie dream house. Instead, I furnished it. I kept it pristine. I decorated the house for each season. I had jack-o'-lanterns in the fall and a Christmas tree with working lights in the winter.

My parents called me their wise little baby. I was mature when I was 4 or 5. My brother and sister were older, so I was raised by four adults.

You grow, you mature, you live, and you learn. You get a little wiser, and you learn better ways to handle things.

I don't know why people keep banging on about the '60s. I came from a conventional family and I didn't go off with different people - I rather wish I had now, seeing all the fun everyone else was having.

We asked ourselves the question: is there anything we wished we had known before heading out into the terrifying unknown that is the 'real world.' Turns out yeah. There's a lot we wish we had known.

It's a universal truth that no parent wishes to acknowledge that the fear and phobias we are in thrall to in adulthood almost invariably connect back to childhood experiences.