No point in being a grown-up if you can't be childish.

You were and still are everything to me. Look at how much we have grown in this childish dream!...

— Mariana Fulger

“Whats the point in being grown up when you cant act childish sometimes?”

— Natalie Repinski

What's the point of being a grown-up if you don't get to be immature?

— Steven Moffat

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“When you're finally a grown-up, one of the things you find is that there are no grown-ups.”

— Charles Finch

“I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I was once…

— Madeleine L'Engle

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“There’s a huge difference between being childlike and being childish. When we embrace joy and look at the world with fresh eyes we’re being…

— Seth Godin

Those who tread 'adult' as a term of approval cannot hope to be considered adult themselves. When I became a man I put away…

— Anonymous

Indeed, an entire generation of Americans has grown to adulthood since the Roe decision of 1973, which held that the right to choose an…

— Robert Casey

“Adolescence--the time when teens begin to do things adults do--now happens later. Thirteen-year-olds--and even 18-year-olds-- are less likely to act like adults and spend…

— Jean M. Twenge

We're adults. When did that happen? And how do we make it stop?

— Anonymous

The attack on youth is a national pathology, unwarranted by fact, smokescreen for the failure of adulthood and its leadership to confront larger predicaments.…

— Mike A. Males

“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

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

— Chris Hogan