Quotes About Adulthood

We need to be the adults we want our children to be.

Your momma and daddy leave you at some point, and then you are on your own.

Men are often childish and vain, although they deny it. - Marianne Falk

Luulen että juuri se teki minusta aikuisen, se oivallus että raakuus on yhdistettävissä nauruun.

She was suffering the first pang of maturity's burden, the knowledge of responsibility misused.

They cut the umbilical cord, give you a slap on the ass, and presto! you're out in the world, adrift, a ship without a rudder.

The dirty little secret is that I grew up in a household where there were no carbohydrates allowed, ever. No cookies, no bread, no potatoes, no rice. My mother was very extreme in terms of what she served. Since I left home more than 40 years ago, I've been making it right for myself.

Grown-ups yell. I don't know why, but they do.

I do think 'All Is by My Side' is the type of film I'm the most happiest. You know, I'm figuring it out. I did just move to New York, so I have to pay my rent.

I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

Having girlfriends is... I can't do it. It doesn't mean I don't hang out with girls. It just means that I don't like being in a relationship, because it makes things very complicated. The one piece of advice that I listen to adults on - because I don't listen to adults when it comes to most things - is that I'm too young to have a girlfriend.

I just remember that pivotal moment when you're a young adult, and you realize that these authority figures are human beings, too, and they're figuring out their lives just as you are, and they're flawed.

I kept getting offered all this young adult stuff. I don't want to keep telling teen coming-of-age stories!

When I was little, the world was simple. But as a young adult, I'm learning that as we have to make choices - education, career, lifestyle - life gets more and more complicated.

I picture Generation X as young adults living in a state of perpetual adolescence.

There's so much that can influence kids and young adults now, you just have to raise them the best you can and hope they make the right decisions.

I love student life, but I also loved, from a young age, being in a working environment where you are treated as an adult.

I had to believe in myself from quite a young age. And I had to grow up pretty early.

I think my parents had in mind that I would settle down at quite a young age, but I decided that being a housewife in a big country house wasn't for me. I wanted to leave the country, head for London and see what the world had to offer.

My parents were pretty open-minded people, but I think leaving them at a young age really made me grow up fast.

At a young age, to think the exciting days are over, it's not easy.

I grew up very fast as a young girl, but I grew slowly into my womanhood.

For being a young guy, I'm articulate and can hold a decent conversation with somebody. But I've been able to do that since I was young. I don't think that has to do too much with schooling, it has more to do with the people I was raised around, my parents. I have respect for adults.