Quotes About Adulthood

But I think a lot of guys need to branch off from home for a while so you can figure everything out, learn how to take care of off-the-court issues so when you do go back home if you decide to, the transition would be easier.

She's not a baby anymore, my love, said Tarik softly. That's what we have to accept, you and I.

Girl scouts didn't teach me what to do with emotionally unstable drunk boys.

the responsibility for their wellbeing and for the fundamental meaning they give to their own life must, in adulthood, be theirs. To accept the burden that someone 'can't live without you' is unrealistic. It infantilises that person and overburdens you. p.226

You always want your kids to step up at the moment of truth.

To tell you the truth, I think it's about that we shouldn't get our driver's licenses till real late in life.

Growing up sometimes forces us to confront the distance between our childhood hope and the truth.

Calculated is the truth of adulthood, whereas honest is the truth of a child.

The nice thing about being an adolescent is being able to make mature decisions when you need them and being able to just flow alone with life when you don't.

When I was a kid, I hated the mask of adulthood. And I was threatened by it.

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traumas and depravities of childhood manifesting themselves in adulthood, often in repetitive behavior.

I'm just a child who's learned to impersonate an adult.

Charlie and Jamie had always sort of assumed that there was some grown-up in charge of the financial system whom they had never met; now, they saw there was not.

Welcome to adulthood. Please leave your dreams at the door.

You still search for Narnia, even though by then you're too old to believe in it and it doesn't want you there.

Growing older, it appears, does not mean growing up.

One day, she told us, you'll have to leave here and go out into the big world out there and earn your living like everyone else. To do that you need to learn. The more you learn now, the more interesting your life will be.

My sister is older than me and would often go off, so I grew up alone in a sense. I had to amuse myself and developed a wonderful fantasy world and quite happily lived in it. I think, in adulthood, that helped me. I love pottering on my own.

I came to London when I was 16 and lived with my older sister.

I've got two sisters and they're both married and they're both much more settled into the way things are.

I don't know how it's going for my sisters, but as my 40s and Verizon bills and mortgage payments roll on, I seem to have an ever more recurring 1950s housewife fantasy.

I firmly believe that every six years, a person goes through a serious change. Think about it: At 6, you start school. At about 12, you start hitting puberty. And then it goes on. You start hitting these different mental levels, and people change. I think that's part of the reason the divorce rate is so high.

I was scouted when I was, like, sixteen, and I hated it. I wasn't ready to work. When I turned 19, I decided to move to Paris to pursue modeling for myself there. It was kind of a way to get out of the house and discover something for myself, in a way.