Adulthood Quotes
Being a child sucked. Being a teenager was worse. And being an adult seemed so far away that I had a better chance at swimming the length of the ocean than growing up.
Adulthood’s full of ghosts... High-functioning sleepwalkers, essentially.
She had the feeling, the tingling, lingering sense that something or someone life altering was just over the horizon. She had no idea what it was, but she wanted to rush headlong to bring it to her.
In the book, you lost your powers. In the movie, you chose not to use them as much. I guess I did a little of both.
Teenagers - tired of being hassled by your parents?Act now!Move out, get a job, pay your own bills.....while you still know everything.
It may have been my youth that forged my heart but it is my adulthood that defines me now." ~quote by Roe'vaash in "Then'diel's HEART
It’s hard to have done all one’s growing up since 33 — but that’s a damn sight better than not growing up at all.
Magda looks at me as if I've gone mad. Or I've grown up. It's kind of the same thing.
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.
What happens to you when you get older? Do you just forget everything from before you turned eighteen? Do you make yourself forget?
I remember a new heaviness in my body, but maybe that's the work of time and my looking back.
I remember myself as a child, pudgy and awkward and unsure of myself. For a moment I wonder how anyone could love such a child as that, let alone the woman she promised to become.
Now, as an adult, my hopes for the future were simple: I wanted to be alone, and to be surrounded by flowers. It seemed, finally, that I might get exactly what I wanted.
Eventually we come to know and understand a lot of things, but it's too late, because a whole life has already been determined at a stage when we didn't know a thing.
When you discipline a child, you prepare them for a responsible and accountable adulthood.
It is a shock to many college graduates that their segway into the real world is one of obligation, profound debt, and countless sacrifices of the soul.