Quotes About Adulthood

Watching her, he saw again how she teetered between adolescence and adulthood, with a raw sensuality that had to deposit her in a kind of no-man's land--too much a woman for boys her own age, too young for fully adult men.

Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied children.

Because I'm always away, coming home to a clean house means a lot to me. Trust me, I've lived with a lot of roommates, and straight guys are just kids who don't pick up after themselves.

read books through the lens of life preparation.

Some men never reach a marriageable age.

In general your brain stretches out time when there's a lot going on. That's why time seems to pass more slowly in childhood than it does in adulthood—because kids are doing so many new things for the first time. If you want to have a longer-seeming life, that's the secret...Keep trying lots of new things, and enjoy each moment!

You are not responsible for the programming you picked up in childhood. However, as an adult, you are one hundred percent responsible for fixing it.

Adults are just children who earn money.

You don't want to peak in high school. If you do, the rest of your life is a disaster.

It all began to disappear, what my parents wanted from me, who they wanted me to be, the future they had so carefully planned.

We were leaving the empty shells of our childhoods behind and becoming prey.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

Adolescence is a marketing tool.

Even if people change on the path from childhood to adulthood, there is still a core of personality that remains intact.

Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.

I spent half my childhood and half my adulthood practicing prediction while perfecting denial.

When you become an adult and get to pick your pleasures, they should be worth picking.

Around the age that most children attended kindergarten and are entrusted with blunt-tipped scissors, River had the massive responsibility of supporting his family.

We'll just be the kinds of girls who have boyfriends in college.

I was tired of being in the charge of cruel and clueless adults. The world was upside down. The adults had abandoned their roles. They'd surrounded themselves in a cocoon of ignorance--and then told us we were screwed up. We couldn't trust them anymore. There was nobody out there watching out for us, taking care of us. We had to look out for ourselves.

What are you, a child? Your cock is not a toy, so stop playing with it for one damn night.

I wasn't an ever-knowing adult; I was just expected to act like one. And, yeah. a real nice family tree I had. Murder and mayhem on every gnarled branch. Hardly seemed fair.

Life was much easier before I had to worry about everyone else worrying,' Irene muttered. 'It's called growing up, dear. It comes with staying alive.

Life was so much easier before I had to worry about everyone else worrying', Irene muttered. 'It's called growing up, dear. It comes with staying alive.