Quotes About Adulthood

I had grown up. I had learned that being a woman was knowing when to stand firm and when to compromise. I had learned to laugh and weep; I had learned that I was weak as well as strong. I had learned to love. I was no longer a rigid, upright tree that would not flex and bow, even though the gale threatened to snap it in two; I was the willow that bends and shivers and sways, and yet remains strong.

Anda a saber, yo creo que ni vos ni yo tenemos demasiado la culpa. No somos adultos

Poco a poco, sin embargo, se va adquiriendo la habilidad necesaria para salvar las diferentes casillas […], lo malo es que justamente a esa altura, cuando casi nadie ha aprendido a remontar la piedrita hasta el Cielo, se acaba de golpe la infancia y se cae en las novelas».

A first lesson in the fragility of love and the preternatural cowardice of men. And out of this disillusionment and turmoil sprang Beli's first adult oath, one that would follow her into adulthood, to the States and beyond. I will not serve.

My teenage years were exactly what they were supposed to be. Everybody has their own path. It's laid out for you. It's just up to you to walk it.

You are truly an adult, when you assume the responsibilities of an adult, when you can take care of your parents instead of your parents taking care of you. - Kailin Gow

Still children into their twenties, this generation

For girls, becoming women was inevitability, for boys, becoming men was ambition.

My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.

I moved to New York when I was 21 and worked between 40 and 70 hours a week. Then I invested it all. It was really just a hustle. But I was kind of raised to work like that, so to me, it seemed very normal and natural.

My parents manage my money, though growing up I was very hands on with investments and made all the decisions, even on behalf of my parents.

I learned how to cook, how to iron clothes. That really helped me be more mature than guys who are my age.

There's always those few people that are like, 'Why don't you play any of the material off your first two records?' And I'm like, 'For the same reason that I don't play with G.I. Joe dolls anymore.' It's like, 'I'm a grown-up.' I wrote that music when I was a kid.

I was 25 before I joined the world, in my opinion. I was a very late developer, and everything came late.

I joined 'Made in Chelsea' when I'd just left school.

Children know so little, they must learn quickly to imitate grown-ups whenever they feel unsure in a situation.

And as for you, Holden, old son: if you happen to meet my body coming through the rye, I'd really appreciate it if you'd just stand aside and get out of my fucking way.

It's true that we take a great deal of our own upbringing on into our adult lives and our lives as parents; but it's true, too, that we can change some of the things that we would like to change. It can be hard, but it can be done.

He would never again need anything from his mother and father but their love.

I was grown-up. I'd packed my own backpack and had left Bloodletter, my stuffed bear, at home. Stuffed bears were for babies, even if you'd fashioned your own mock power armor for yours out of string and broken ceramics.

Being young was an excuse. A plausible justification

To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.

The mandate is not to be perfect and raise happy children. Perfection doesn't exist, and I've found that what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.

Perfection doesn't exist, and I've found that what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.