(Adulthood is all about waiting to take your pants off.)

Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed.

— Ellen Goodman

People often say that you should never work with child actors. I think that's all wrong. Children have not had the imagination kicked out…

— Nicolas Cage

Two things suck about becoming an adult male - paying taxes and getting a finger in your butt.

— Guy Code

You can only pretend for so long before reality hits and you realize he/she is not who you thought or what you truly want.

— Abhishek Tiwari

If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept me in…

— Charles Lindbergh

“English: "Being an adult doesn't mean killing the child we once were; it means being able to protect him." Česky: „Být dospělým neznamená zabít…

— Sebastián Wortys

“I wondered what a man I had encountered the day before on the plane en route to Chicago's O'Hare airport would have made of…

— Robert Moss

“Sometimes your kids will say the nastiest things, won't they, Rose? You want to ask,'Whose child is this?'" Rose chuckled. "But usually, they're just…

— Mitch Albom

No one, it has been said, will ever look at the Moon in the same way again. More significantly can one say that no…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Being an adult is the ability to postpone a want for the sake of a family need.

— Chris Hogan

“one Secret of Adulthood is “Never start a sentence with the words ‘No offense’”? “And”

— Gretchen Rubin

In their youth, mortals behave more like nymphs. Adulthood seems impossibly distant, let alone the enfeeblement of old age. But ponderously, inevitably, it overtakes…

— Brandon Mull

Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to…

— Janet Napolitano

“Yet GenX'er teens didn't slow down--they were just as likely to drive, drink alcohol, and date as their Boomer peers and more likely to…

— Jean M. Twenge

“The entrepreneurs are only about my age, probably younger, but they don't seem so. Their tailored clothes and unbending hairdos, their clipboards and laser…

— Sara Baume