Quotes About Adulthood

I always wanted to be grown up. When I was little I couldn't wait to be a teenager and go to high school. When I got there I wanted to be done with it, wanted to get out into the world, the real one, and live in it. The thing is, that world doesn't exist. All growing up means is that you realize no one will come along to fix things. No one will come along to save you.

I will say this once," her mother said. "You can put your foot down about this. You can have your tantrum. But get used to the fact that you're going to be a mother - and no matter how much you've been in control of all the other parts of your life, you're about to enter into a thing that you can never control entirely. Ever.

Cavell writes: " 'No one comes' is a tragedy for a child. For a grown-up it means that the time has come to be the one who goes first."27

I liked being a minor because you can't get into trouble. Now I just have to try and behave myself.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

I was not developmentally disabled, but didn't mature at the same rate other kids did.

When I reached adulthood, even now, I could afford to belong to a country club. But I could never belong to a private club because of my experience as a child, because it would isolate me from the whole of humanity.

Living in London, drinking has just been a big part of growing up here. It's always been readily available.

I feel that I've grown up a little bit and I'm actually ready to settle down.

We used to say when we were 20 years old, that when you reach 30, you gotta hang up your guitar and get a real job.

'No Scrubs' is a mean song for a lot of reasons. If you're 18, 19-year-old guy, or even 17, your friend just got a license. You don't have a real job yet. It's like that song asks you to be an adult way faster than you should.

You don't become a real man until you're 35 or 40.

I still feel about 22. I don't understand, actually. I mean, as I got older, I thought there would be things like, 'I need a house now', 'I need kids', 'I need a licence to drive', but I have never really had that happen. I guess that forms part of my appeal for the people who like the stuff I do: I'm not a real person - I'm a gypsy.

There's something that happens around 27 and 28, when people start coupling off more aggressively or changing their lives according to what their economic prospects are, and not keeping themselves on par with the group - you realise suddenly that they're not your family. And I think that's very painful.

I was raised to think that if you behaved badly with men, you went to hell. I realise now it is puritanical and not very adult.

Once I started to grow up, I realised that my parents are normal people and they can make mistakes.

It is inevitable that many ideas of the young mind will later have to give way to the hard realities of life.

You gotta mature, you know.

I didn't do any football stuff when I was a kid... Mostly baseball and basketball the whole time. That's all I did. I played football starting in seventh grade. As I got older, I started playing a little bit more. Then in high school, I really fell in love with it.

When I was 17, I was excited to graduate from high school!

I moved to New York when I was 21 or 22 as a graduate fellow.

I thought that's what you did, you know? You graduate high school, you went to work.

In a world where you graduate with a theater degree from college, you gotta find your bread job. You gotta find that job to pay the bills.

I went to college because I felt like I was supposed to. I graduated from public high school and I did all the things that I was supposed to do.