Quotes About Adulthood

I've been a tomboy my whole life. But then you get older, you get married, you soften up.

She had always thought applying to college would be exciting. Living away from home, meeting so many new people, Learning new things, making a few poor life desicisons.

As Washington, Adams, and Jefferson reached the cusp of adulthood, each exhibited a passion for independence. Each hungered for emancipation from the entanglements of childhood and sought to carve out an autonomous existence. The handmaiden to each young man's zeal for self-mastery was a propulsive ambition that drove him to yearn for more than his father had attained, for more even than his father had ever hoped to achieve.

I'll be fine. I'm a big boy now, you know.

I'm officially at the age where I see that commercial for the Craftmatic Adjustable Bed and think, "Sweet! Are you kidding me? You mean I can sleep in the shape of a U?"

The Army was good for me. I can't honestly say that it taught me any morals or sense of responsibility. I had been raised with those qualities. What it taught me was that there was a whole world of sex I had yet to discover.

I don't know about you, but the reason I left my parents was because I wanted the freedom to sleep with girls. My sons have that – and they still have their mother to wash their clothes and cook their meals. No wonder they don't want to go!

No, Roger had not seen the funny side. But there had been a moment when, after looking at his watch, he had thought: I can remember when Christmas morning would start at about half past ten with a glass of Buck's Fizz in bed. Now it begins at half past five, with a test of my fine motor skills and ability to read Korean.

In the place called Adulthood there are no Cheshire Cats... for they can't endure the suffering of the place.

Was it the day you realized your parents aren't perfect? When you got your first long trousers? Going to school? Saying hello? Saying goodbye? Your heart opens? It breaks? It heals? It breaks again? Which is it?

We had enough years in front of us to be serious and grown-up and respectable. Why rush it? But on the other hand we always complained when teachers and other adults treated us as kids. In fact there was nothing that annoyed me more. So it was a frustrating situation. What we needed was a two-sided badge that said 'Mature' on one side and 'Childish' on the other. Then at any moment we could turn it to whatever side we felt like being and the adults could treat us accordingly.

We'll never feel safe again, and so it's bye-bye innocence. It's been nice knowing you, but you're gone now.

What we needed was a two-sided badge that said 'Mature' on one side and 'Childish' on the other. Then at any moment we could turn it to whatever side we felt like being and the adults could treat us accordingly.

That was the best thing about college: it was so easy to leave. You could be in the place where you lived, having an argument that you had basically started, and then you could just say, "See you later," and go somewhere else.

When you get to your mid-20s, you start to feel responsibilities for the things that you do and the people around you. It's a cool age.

A grown man, a father, ought to face his responsibilities in life—even if he did not wish to.

Katya was fifteen Amazonian years-twenty-odd, in standard conversion-and impatient with anything that smacked of responsible adulthood. And she wouldn't wear her honor around the house; her hip was naked even of a holster. Of course, Lesa-both hands full of groceries, unable to reach her honor without dropping chickens or fruit-wasn't much of an example, whatever her renown as duelist twenty years and three children ago.

You know, even grown-up people cannot do what they want most" "Then why grow up?

Adults make mistakes too.

Just remember when temptation comes your way that a boy will drink beyond his means and a man will know when he's had enough." "Yes

You've grown up, girl. You've grown up real nice, Welcome home

I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves.

When my skin had gone back to its even tone I slept with another man and discovered, my hands lying awkwardly on the sheet at either side of me, that I had forgotten what to do with them. I'm responsible and an adult again, full time. What remains is that my sensation thermostat has been thrown out of whack; it's been years and sometimes I wonder whether my body will ever again register above lukewarm.

The thing is, that world doesn't exist. All growing up means is that your realize no one will come along to fix things. No one will come along to save you.