Quotes About Adulthood

I love my mother dearly, but it wouldn't be suitable for me to live with her all the 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.

True love comes along after adolescence, when we have learned not to cry for nothing.

I hated childhood / I hate adulthood / And I love being alive.

It happened that at the late age of twenty-seven I had run away from home. High time, you might say; but rebels can't always be choosers.

Your childhood is spent being nurtured, protected, loved unconditionally while your adulthood is spent searching in vain for substitutes. Mate, government, God…

Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.

To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents

Very few people grow up

Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up. Not really.

Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity. It becomes easier to die and avoid conflicts than to maintain a constant battle with the superior forces of maturity. Until

Whoa. If high school was suppose to be the best years of my life - at least so far - I was truly destined to have a sucky adulthood.

I always thought when I became an adult everything would become less confusing, but unfortunately, everything's only becoming more confusing.

We're seeing an epidemic of people who are having a hard time making the transition to work — kids who had too much success early in life and who've become accustomed to instant gratification, ... Ready or Not, Here Life Comes.

I read somewhere that a lot of kids of immigrants grow up quickly and are given more responsibility than other kids. Their parents tend to depend on them, mostly because the kids can speak the language better and can act as a conduit to mainstream American society. The child becomes the parent, and the parent, the child.

Why do we grow up thinking life should be fair? Who told us that it should be? Because it never is, and finding that out . . . hurts worse than a lie.

Have I mentioned before that being responsible sucks?

Acting on what you want is something only children think is an adult prerogative.

Americans are children who must go somewhere else to grow up, and sometimes die.

A harsh thing for any young man to hear, but this is part of every youth's education in the world, learning the risks are never fully revealed until you commit.

A harsh thing for any young man to hear, but this is part of every youth's education in the world, learning the risks are never fully revealed until you commit.

Gli americani sono bambini che devono andare da qualche altra parte a crescere, e a volte a morire.

And I must be nineteen by now, lord! Maybe even twenty?" "Eighteen?" I suggested. "I could have been married four years ago, lord!" We

I got into law school, and it required a maturity I didn't have at the time.