Quotes About Adulthood

She had expected this because they were adults. Yet she'd gone off with them because they didn't behave like adults, so that she couldn't understand, now, whether they'd deserted her or whether she'd been stupid to expect otherwise.

If little girls will forget to be little, and take it upon them to become young ladies, they must bear the consequences, one of which is, that we can follow their fortunes no longer.

We're sober now, and we all have families and obligations of being senior citizens. Oh, that's hard to say. We have grown-up responsibilities. We used to all live in the same car.

I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.

For some men, life seems to be one long attempt to escape childhood and all the fears of childhood. That's what many of us are doing.

Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.

Someday I might have to put down a basketball and have a regular 9-to-5 like everybody else.

Someday perhaps I'll have to get a grownup job... but for now I'm having too much fun being a reporter.

The only adult male I had ever known was my father. All my ideas about love and responsibility came from him.

And I was scrambling around trying to make money and to study and master (and fail at mastering) the art of being an adult.

For many of us, the curtain had just come down on childhood.

As children grow, they gravitate to their fates.

Parents rarely let got of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away.

For many of us, the curtain has just come down on childhood.

The curtain has just come down on childhood

The years after graduation hardened me into someone quite different from the strutting graduate.. headed for New York City, ready to offer the world his talent. The world, I discovered, was not all that interested. I wandered around my early twenties, paying rent and reading classifieds and wondering why the lights were not turning green for me.

every Friday, without fail, Saeed's father would drive home and collect his son and Saeed would pray with his father and the men, and prayer for him became about being a man, being one of the men, a ritual that connected him to adulthood and to the notion of being a particular sort of man, a gentleman, a gentle man, a man who stood for community and faith and kindness and decency, a man, in other words, like his father.

Saeed would pray with his father and the men, and prayer for him became about being a man, being one of the men, a ritual that connected him to adulthood and to the notion of being a particular sort of man, a gentleman, a gentle man, a man who stood for community and faith and kindness and decency, a man, in other words, like his father.

This is the meaning of Star Wars: we were rebels; we are Empire. And like all rebellious children, we were but going through a phase. We are getting ready for adulthood, after we sowed a few wild oats. Once grown, we put on our imperial uniform, and bowed to the Empire. It is your destiny. Right? Unless—

Such a bad mistake it would be, to embark on marriage and adult life without a nice supply of duct tape.

I felt as though I were pretending to be grown-up.

A man who could urinate standing up and without help was a man in a fit state to face his responsibilities.

We must now confont out destiny. Each to his own. We're all adults now aren't we? Do you know what maturity means Ben? Let your father explain. Maturity is simply the process of discovering that everything you believed in when you were young is false and that all the things you refused to believe in turn out to be true.