Quotes About Adulthood

Forse sono priva di quel particolare gene che ti fa maturare [...] Tutti stanno andando avanti senza di me, verso un mondo che non comprendo.

Oh God, I'm miss­ing the gene which makes you grow up and buy a flat in Streatham and start visiting Homebase every weekend. Everyone's moving on without me, into a world I don't understand.

Oh God, maybe there's something wrong with me. I'm missing the gene which makes you grow up and buy a flat in Streatham and start visiting Homebase every weekend. Everyone's moving on without me, into a world I don't understand.

I'll find out afterward. If Suze tells me. Which she may not. Some things are private. I mean, we're grown-ups now. You don't share everything. (Except, I really, really hope she tells me.)

I want to live out principles that became a part of my life in my 40s, 50s, and 60s. One principle is the universality of freedom.

Forty freaked me out. I didn't see it coming. My life was in a state of chaos - I was moving jobs and moving house - and it just hit me like a ton of bricks.

We'd even devised the Buffy scale of life relationships: you start off wanting Xander, spend your twenties going out with Spike and setttle down with giles.

I came into adult life equipped with an essentially romantic ethic.

I think, if I had a dad, I would have went the normal college route. I'm so stoked my life panned out how it was.

Well, in order to become a grown man, in order to become significant in my family and significant in my children's life, I had to learn my lessons.

I never understand when people say, 'School days are the best of your life.' So it's all downhill from 16? How depressing.

When one matures in life is when one knows we never grow up

Yes, the life of an adult entails accepting and in some way being responsible for pain.

Oh God, I'm miss­ing the gene which makes you grow up and buy a flat in Streatham and start visiting Homebase every weekend. Everyone's moving on without me, into a world I don't understand.

Growing up is the greatest adventure of all.

But what you do in your child's first five years of life—not just the first year—profoundly influences how he or she will behave as an adult.

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged . One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." [ Kung Fu Monkey -- Ephemera , blog post, March 19, 2009]

A child is not a bona fide adult, regardless of age, until the child is self-supporting.) During

Forty-three years old, and still afraid of my father. Some tycoon, hunh?

When I leave school I will drive around looking for prostitutes like Julia.

I think I'm finally growing up - and about time.

I love sport, I grew up playing sports, that's all I did, and it is so invigorating now that I'm supposedly adult to learn something completely new, from the bottom up.

I used to be a child. It came naturally to me. I was an adult for a time, too. That came less naturally.