Quotes About Adulthood

You can be 24 and continue to live like you're at college, or even continue to live like you're in high school. Or you can put on a shirt and tie and pretend to be an adult.

My little boy was no more and even though he'd come home for vacations, our relationship would never be quite the same. Just as he would have to learn to be an adult in the world, so would I have to learn to live without him.

and in that wink I understood there might be grown men in this world who actually get a spark out of life.

Children's literature must build a bridge between the colorful dream world full of fantasy and illusion, and a tougher real world full of twists and turns. The child armed with the torch of knowledge, awareness and guidance must cross this bridge and set foot to the intense harshness of the bigger world." An In-Depth Analysis of Educational Deadlock

Most days I go home crying and my dad tells me welcome to the real world.

To be adult means, among other things, to see one's own life in continuous perspective, both in retrospect and in prospect.

By the time I turned 18, I moved into a little chalet of my own and felt very grown-up.

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.

Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd grown up

Finally, for all of us but a lucky few, the dream of playing big-time baseball is relinquished so we can get on with grown-up things.

I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get.

A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.

Your twenties are the time to both accept and fight your way into the person you're destined to become.

There comes a time whenyou haveto let yourclothesgo out in the world and try to make it on their own.

The protected place in space and time that we once called childhood has grown shorter.

There definitely is that element of guys who like to party and have a good time and... putting off for as long as possible the idea that they'll actually have to settle down

I left home at 17, traveled. I got married when I was 21. That's a young age. As it turned out, things were fine, then not so fine, and then it was a blunder. That happens all the time.

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

Adulthood, for all its opportunities, meant the simultaneous accumulation of loss.

I hated this business of being grown-up. I hated having to make decisions where I didn't know what was behind the door. I wanted a world where heroes and villains were clearly labeled.

Adulthood, for all its opportunities, meant the simultaneous accumulation of loss. Momentarily the emptiness was unbearable.

Many of us know in our hearts that we never really grew up. The problem isn't that we're lost or apathetic, narcissistic or materialistic. The problem is we're terrified.

Adulthood is a wonderful thing, and brief. You must be sure to enjoy it while it lasts.