Quotes About Adulthood

I was the happiest kid ever, but I did choose to live around adults and today, now that I have a kid, I don't know if I would let him do it.

I definitely had a hard time leaving for college because I'm not much of a risk-taker.

Everyone out there is growing up too quickly, university does give you responsibility but you're still learning and you have time to go out and have fun.

I'm grown as hell.

My dad said, 'The thing that I was told that was really helpful was that I mustn't be afraid of the things I was afraid of when I was five years old'. The shock of his childhood had put him in this defensive crouch against the world, and he needed to know that he had a nice wife and kids and it wasn't the same any more.

When I first saw 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High,' I thought: That's what my life is like. That's my day-to-day.

If you're entering your first year of higher education, then you also need to prepare for an extreme lifestyle change. Your mom's not there to wake you up for school.

He had reached the age when the future ceases to be a rosy blur and becomes actual and menacing.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

Take trains, for instance. He was no longer a child, and it wasn't anything mechanical about them that attracted him. If he had a preference for night trains, it was because he sensed in them something strange, almost wicked

It is high time you realised that you are of age, and may do as you please. Now, be off, and don't neglect to change your stockings!

As far as co-parenting is concerned, it is easy. You just have to be mature enough to work together, mature enough to keep your professional and personal life apart.

For anyone who's had a transition in their life - heading off to college, parents sending their kids off to college, people getting out of college and heading off into the workforce. Those are major transitions.

The big experience of feeling like I jumped off into the deep end was that transition from college into the workforce. There were so many unwritten rules I didn't understand.

I think college starts too early. You should go straight into the workforce at 18 and start getting the hang of life first.

You do certain things in your twenties that are just not appropriate in your thirties and certainly not appropriate in your forties. Eventually you even the scales, and it's time to move on and become an adult and start working hard again and going to sleep a little bit earlier. Fortunately, I got a job to facilitate that transition.

Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves.

I was a very protected and confused kid till 24. It was after then, that I started taking my life seriously.

I drove the Ford Ranger until probably five years after college, till about 2001, when I was almost 30.

Even more than getting married or having kids, I found losing a parent is what thrusts you into adulthood. For me it was. That was when the Earth tilted on its axis, and there was a paradigm shift, and I felt like a different person.

The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up.

I am so lucky to have really good parents. They didn't hesitate to let us go to L.A. They didn't hesitate, because they knew that they raised their kids the right way: to be able to live by themselves and not get caught up by L.A.

I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.

The cell phone has become the adult's transitional object, replacing the toddler's teddy bear for comfort and a sense of belonging.