Quotes About Adulthood

Don't you find it odd," she continued, "that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams. But when you're older, somehow they act offended if you even try.

The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has become an adult.

When we're grown up I'll come back for you, I promise. No one can stop us then.

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.

But however the forms of family life have changed and the number expanded, the role of the family has remained constant and it continues to be the major institution through which children pass en route to adulthood.

I arrived at the age of 19, 20 and remained five years at Chelsea.

I remember seeing 'Dead Poet's Society,' and it made it appealing in a way that I actually went to prep school.

I wasn't remotely ambivalent about marrying the person I was marrying, but I was 35. I was deep into my adulthood, and I identified as single.

I left home the day after I graduated from high school because I knew we weren't going to make any dough to pay the rent in music.

I always connected renting a car with being an adult. If you think about it, it's the last frontier of your youth. You can join the military at 18, drink when you're 21, but you can't rent a car.

There's a shift and a change in how we've matured to becoming adults. 'Elevator Girl' represents our maturity.

For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.

When I was 13 I had a fake Id that said that I was 19. I was getting in all the clubs.

People don't necessarily identify me with doing adult things.

I was married to someone who wanted me to change. Become more adult, more responsible. I began not to like myself, not like what I do. I lost my identity. Everything began collapsing around me.

I love 80s fashion. I love it because it's what my mum and aunties looked like when I was a little girl. It's what I imagined myself looking like when I was a grown up.

I can't let myself act immature, in a way.

Perhaps, over the years, I have become less immature and more professional.

There's a level of immaturity to people who just can't clean up after themselves.

I'm not that girl from Freaky Friday any more! I'm a real adult. In fact, I hate children! I hate them all!

Being a kid is so much more fun than being an adult. I think that's the crux of it. I think men are just less inclined to grow up because it's much more fun being a child.

Throughout America's history, the start of adult life for women - whatever else it might have been destined to include - had been typically marked by marriage.

My biggest financial fear is dying and not leaving enough to see my daughter through to adulthood and financial independence.

My children are grown now, they are more independent.