Adulthood Quotes

We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be an adult. Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.

The Olympic Games are not just ordinary world championships but a quadrennial festival of universal youth. . . celebrated by each succeeding generation as it arrives on the threshold of adulthood.

In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark.

One of my Secrets of Adulthood is: Most decisions don't require extensive research.

Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood.

I love fashion. I always have. When I was a kid, I was in almost full-on costumes when I went to school, and I've retained a bit of that in my adulthood.

How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable mother?

Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.

Adulthood feels like walking around in the desert with a bag over your head, being bumped into by people who rob you as they bore you.

Adulthood isn't black and white - it's a thousand shades of grey. Or taupe. It's not who you are, it's where you are.

Although I was well past my teenage troubles, our music was specifically designed to lubricate the passage from adolescence to adulthood.

Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence - and just as adventurous.

[Adulthood:] It's when you stop doing the stuff you have to make excuses for and when you stop making excuses for the stuff you have to do.

It's rather hard to decide just when people are grown up.

Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.

Growing up is loving what you can afford to.

I'm pretty squeaky clean. No big tragedies in my childhood or adolescence or adulthood. I've had a very easygoing, simple life.

Has it ever occurred to you that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into adulthood? Usually kicking and screaming?

I hated childhood / I hate adulthood / And I love being alive.

Whoa. If high school was suppose to be the best years of my life - at least so far - I was truly destined to have a sucky adulthood.

Adulthood does not exist. Man is an eternal child.

The definition of adulthood is that you want to sleep.

Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood

Like everyone I slipped into adulthood like a delinquent through the back door.

Soon, he would become an adult. And when he did, there would be not going back because adulthood was akin to what his father had once said about being a war hero: one you became one, you died one.

Everyone else we knew growing up is the same: image of their parents, no matter how loud they told themselves they'd be different

Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.

one of the blessings of adulthood is that one is no longer addressed as a thing.

I believe I owe all the best parts of my adulthood to embracing my imperfections and showcasing them.

Calculated is the truth of adulthood, whereas honest is the truth of a child.

I came from nothing out in the woods near Tallahassee, Florida. My mom was a single mom raising five of us. It wasn't easy but she found a way to raise us to adulthood. We made it somehow.

I'm fascinated to see the future of social media and also how the generation who grew up with it will evolve into adulthood.

I know end might be near as this is only day of my adulthood I’ve seen my mother and she hasn’t asked, ‘Why that shirt?’

It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood.

But adulthood," continued the barely twentysomething, "doesn't give you power over what matters most. It doesn't protect you from pain, loss, fate. That's part of being human.

Welcome to adulthood," she said. "It sucks as much as high school.

You treat a kid with respect and as an adult you talk to them as if they're smart people. But you don't throw at them the trappings of adulthood and you know, the darker stuff.

The onset of adulthood is an organic, creeping process. No one wakes up one day and decides, 'Lo, on this day I shall forever put away childish things and begin clipping coupons to go to Wal-Mart.'

War defined my entire childhood and youth and most of my adulthood too - and in the US, it continues to do so.

The hardest obstacle I've ever had to overcome is probably my first steps into adulthood: paying rent, groceries, cooking, taxes. I was so anxious to grow up, and now I'm wishing I was still a kid.

Our children shouldn't have to wait for adulthood to become wild readers. For many, it will be too late.

Thanksgiving, our eminent moral holiday, doesnt have much for children. At its heart are conversation, food, drink, and fellowship - all perks of adulthood.

Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.

The models of adulthood are disappearing fast. How can two people have a new marriage if neither of them is an adult?

One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ...and accepts his sentence undismayed.

Martin Wilson's What They Always Tell Us hears the voices of the young as they struggle toward adulthood.

Adolescence is a border between childhood and adulthood. Like all borders, it's teeming with energy and fraught with danger.

Marriage is such a mark of adulthood in my mind.

Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I dont feel everybody can connect to.

After all, isn't that what really draws the line between childhood and adulthood, knowing that you are solely responsible for yourself? If so, then my childhood ended at fifteen.