Quotes About Adulthood

You had to assume that his body would grow to match, in which case Stephen would become a man of splendid proportions.

Brian was only thirteen. He was asleep by one A.M.

I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere.

caught up in the exciting world of adults and their antics

Somewhere along the way, without me even noticing, I grew up Alex. For once, I couldn't take advice from anyone around me about what I should or shouldn't do. I couldn't go running to mum and dad and I can't compare my marriage to anybody else's, we all follow our own rules.

Josh takes chances; he's braver than I am. He always takes that extra step when he nos he shouldn't. He does it anyway and he learns. I think we adults have a lot to learn from that. Perhaps to be not so afraid and oversensible about reaching for goals.

It's funny because when you're a child, you believe you can be anything you want to be, go wherever you want to go. There are no limits. You expect the unexpected, you believe in magic. Then you grow older and that innocence is shattered. The reality of life gets in the way and you're hit by the realization that you can't be all you wanted to be, that you just might have to settle a little bit less.

Josh corre riesgos; es más valiente que yo. Siempre va un paso más allá aunque sabe que no debería. Pero lo hace igualmente y aprende. Pienso que los adultos tenemos mucho que aprender de eso. Quizá no deberíamos ser tan miedosos y sensatos cuando se trata de alcanzar nuestras metas.

Josh takes chances; he's braver than I am. He always takes that extra step when he nos he shouldn't. He does it anyway and he learns. I think we adults have a lot to learn from that. Perhaps to not be so afraid and oversensible about reaching for goals.

Stop hiding here and making things worse. Deal with it head-on. Calmly. Stand up for yourself. Talk to people. Be an adult. Then come here and just enjoy feeding the ducks.

Devorah told me, "Our daughter is grown," and there were tears in her eyes.

It is a great mistake on the part of elderly ladies, male and female, to tell a child that he is seeing his happiest days. Do not you believe a word of it, my little friend.

I'm only 24, which is still young, but I don't think of myself as one of the young lads anymore. I suppose that's how people have always seen me. But there comes a time when you have to take extra responsibility.

I've truly grown up in Salt Lake. I've become a man, and I've become a professional.

Going from a child actor to an adult actor is not an easy thing, and I was sort of lost in a no man's land for a while, trying to figure out who I was as a person, and going from a young actor to an adult actor.

I don't really have childhood-type memories. I had to grow up very young.

I've grown up a lot, and I have such great memories of playing football.

People talk about fantastic memories of childhood, but I remember children being cruel to me and wanting to come out of childhood as soon as possible because I knew adults were generally more contained in their cruelty.

Everyone has their dates. For me, it's 1991. I can place every memory of my life either before or after this date. It's the year I became an adult. My mother died, and I created my company shortly thereafter.

I always had the street mentality, but when you're older, you get more mature.

You know what men are like, they never really grow up, do they? Do they ever catch us up mentally? I don't think so.

A lot of my stand-up early on was stories from my childhood. And my childhood is over - there's not new childhood stories to come. They've all been mentioned.

My husband was 50; I was in my late 30s. We had lived adulthoods that did not include infants, except as metaphors. And then, like so many in today's America, we had a baby in later life.

I was married very young. I lived a very middle class life. I was married at age 21, divorced at 31.