Quotes About Adulthood

If you look at films about becoming a man, coming-of-age movies are made with 12-, 16-, 40-, 50-year-olds... For a guy to feel like he's a 100 percent grown-up is almost like giving up. Like admitting that you're on your way into the grave.

I think being a dad is scary. I mean, I'm not that grown-up myself.

It's important to say that it's not just men that can be man-children. Women can be grown-up women and still have the playfulness of people who are younger.

Some people do need to grow up, but I don't think I'm there yet. I don't think I'm ready to do grown-up things and be a grown-up.

I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.

I don't want to be a grown-up anymore; it's hard!

I've always seen myself as a grown-up. Since I was a little kid.

It always feel like people are doing more grown-up things than you are.

I've never had a couch that needed to be cleaned or learned how to couch-clean in general. That feels too grown-up.

I feel like 2012 was the first year I actually felt like a grown-up.

As a little girl, my dollhouse allowed me to imagine a big, perfect, grown-up life in which I'd be effortlessly domestic.

I've always enjoyed gaming, but even as I got older, and I started to get deeper into writing and all this stuff that is my grown-up job, I couldn't play as much as I used to.

Being a mom has made me feel more like a grown-up. I was always a kid at heart. It makes me feel like I did my purpose in life.

It's very bizarre to me to now really be a grown-up. I kind of can't believe that I'm there because I certainly don't feel that way a lot of the time.

I've been sitting at the grown-ups' table my whole life.

Everybody grows up.

When you break finances down in a way that kids can understand, it creates financial literacy that grows with them as they become adults.

I've experienced that, I think everyone who grows up a male experiences this idea of what it's supposed to mean to become a man from a boy.

It's hard to find a way forward. When you're 18 it happens in huge chunks every day, but after 20 years, growth is much more costly.

I don't have the habit of asking money from my parents.

For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell you what you should have done.

I had a beautiful childhood, so my adulthood has been really frustrating because it's - half the time it hasn't been as good as my childhood.

you are never so smart again in a language learned in middle age nor so romantic, brave or kind.

By the time we reach adulthood, many of us have learned to deny our feelings. We are no longer in touch with our emotional selves.