Adulthood Quotes

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.

Marriage is such a mark of adulthood in my mind.

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

Adulthood is knowing that a fully realized character is always more important than the lines.

A car is a big thing for anyone going into adulthood, it's a big seminal moment.

Perhaps eggs are like neurons, which also are not replenished in adulthood: they know too much. Eggs must plan the party. Sperm need only to show up- wearing top hat and tails, of course.

Adulthood can do the most horrific things to the best of people.

As children we all wonder - we wonder all the time. And that gets lost in adulthood. It gets beaten out, it gets filtered out or diluted out.

Reading is the scourge of childhood because, in a sense, it creates adulthood.

At 13 I was someone that didn't have a personality yet. It's a fascinating period in a human life. It's so exciting because you are in between childhood and adulthood.

The transition into adulthood is so exciting and remarkable to witness as parent.

I went from being a beanpole - like a normal kid of the 1950s - and exploded. The weight piled on and didn't stop until into my adulthood.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?’

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 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.

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

Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.

As an adult I had mastered the art of looking without seeing and listening without hearing and eating without tasting and maybe even existing without living.

Children are the closest we have to wisdom, and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.

When You Live Life Too Early, You Learn Life Too Late.

Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.

There is so much woman in many a girl and too much boy in many a man.

Parents expect only two things from their children, obedience in their childhood and respect in their adulthood.

Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.

In Your Early Years people Tell You, Correct You and Forgive You. But when you become an Adult, they Neither Correct you nor Forgive You

Relax. You will become an adult. You will figure out your career. You will find someone who loves you. You have a whole lifetime time takes time. The only way to fail at life is to abstain.

Someone wise told me recently that Adulting was hard. My response: TRUE STORY

And at twelve, heading for adulthood, a child fears that the way she is at that moment is all she's ever going to be.

Be absolutely assured that we will die long before our own deaths if we ever allow the fear of adulthood to kill the wonder of childhood.

Don't you find it odd, " she continued, "that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams. But when you're older, somehow they act offended if you even try.

Each year, more responsibility and freedom (they are companions) must be given to the child so that the final release in early adulthood is merely a small, final release of authority.

The average adult hates being treated like a child, unless it suits them.

If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.

The man was a bully. A bully who'd elevated himself to a high-level position, but a bully just the same. No amount of flattery would change how I saw him.

In my youth I had three teachers: friends, enemies, and books. In my adulthood I had three professors: God, nature, and life.

In a matter of weeks, he had learned that without suffering and doubt, there can be no whole human being.

Yes, the life of an adult entails accepting and in some way being responsible for pain.

When I was a child, I thought like a child.When I became adult, I seek a deeper understanding of life.

Age is only a number. Keep an active life.

And though our roots belong to the same tree, our branches have grown in different directions.

We are all entitled to our own share of mistakes and learning experiences in life. No one should take them away from us. Not even our parents.

I guess there's a Use By date when it comes to blaming your parents for how messed up you are.I guess that's what turning eighteen means.Time to own it.

You can’t just be. You have to become.