Quotes About Adulthood

It's grown people who always believe the worst

At times like this, adults need a drink

Hasta ahora había deseado permanecer eternamente en los diecisiete o dieciocho años. Pero ya no lo pretendo. Ya no soy un adolescente. Tengo sentido de la responsabilidad. Kizuki, ya no soy el que estaba contigo. He cumplido veinte años. Y debo pagar un precio por seguir viviendo.

Like all social, long-lived organisms with long childhoods and overlap between our generations, we need to learn how to be adults. That is different, however, from needing to be taught.

Only adults weep with joy. Children don't. They haven't learned how rare moments of true happiness are.

As a kid, you have nothing to do with the way the world is run; you just have to hurry to catch up with it.

I don't know why I was upset about not being an adult. It was right around the corner. Becoming a child again is what is impossible. That's what you have legitimate reason to be upset over. Childhood is the most valuable thing that's taken away from you in life, if you think about it.

He didn't want to read the newspaper or listen to the radio anymore. He didn't want to be a grown-up. There are some people who are just no good at it.

Ce qui est un vrai succès dans la vie d'adulte, ce n'est pas de gagner tout le temps, mais d'être capable de gérer l'échec.

It's been a while since I've written a novel aimed at the adult market, but I never sit down and say to myself, 'Okay, now I'm going to write something for us old folks.' I get gripped by an idea, and I go where the idea takes me.

Me coming in the NFL 20 years old, very young, not really knowing the right and wrong thing to do, I had to learn.

I don't want to offend nobody, and I don't rub anybody the wrong way. That's a part of growing up.

I wrote my earliest piece for The Sunday Times about being a young wife.

I moved from home in Scotland to home in WWE, and that was the first time being out on my own in my life.

The male role models I had all seemed to have been in the military. My father served in the army. My uncle was in the Marine Corps. Both of my grandfathers served in WWII. There weren't any career soldiers in my family, but when I was young it seemed like a way of arriving at adulthood.

I love YA, and it's been a really good fit for me. But at some point, I would like to try something else: a collection of short stories, or writing about something other than high school. A lot has happened to me since I was eighteen.

Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard with a stick, only you're being paid to do it. It's borderline madness.

If you're going to be a father and whatnot, yeah, you better be responsible about it as best you can.

There were some super-lean years, yeah. I'm six feet four. And I entered into this period all of a sudden when I was too big to play a kid and I was too young to play an adult. Like, I couldn't play the lawyer, but I couldn't play the high school kid anymore.

Yeah I grew up in the public eye. I became a man in the public eye, which is kind of a bizarre thing to come to terms with. Now I'm in my late 20s and I was in my early 20s when I became recognizable. But I think 'Moneyball' represents a very strong shift in my career and becoming an adult and a man.

For many people, the age of 20 is when they first reach adulthood, and it's a time full of ideals and dreams. But when I was 20, a lot of misfortune came along. I spent a year in the hospital and couldn't move, and I was forced to think a lot.

People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don't know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione.

I don't yearn to be a child again.

I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that. Don't rush into adulthood, it isn't all that much fun.