Adult life Quotes

My adult life, I grew up in Chicago. When I go back there, I always have fond memories.

— B. J. Armstrong

“What do you do when you discover your adult life is a sham?”

— Nathan Hill

I have lived in the United States for half of my life, my entire adult life.

— Sheena Easton

I've had the same breasts for my entire adult life.

— Sharon Stone

I'm a writer. I've been a journalist for my whole adult life.

— Stephen J. Dubner

“It was interesting, how much of adult life consisted of pretending.”

— Kevin Canty

I'm very conscious that I've spent my whole adult life in the public eye.

— Georgia Toffolo

Most of my adult life I had this towering contempt for America.

— Robert Crumb

I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means that much to you,…

— Andrew Wiles

Six years after al-Awlaki was born, his family moved back to Yemen, but he returned to the States for college and remained…

— Peter Bergen

I spent most of my adult life as someone's mother and the rest of my life trying to make sure that children…

— Pat Benatar

I spent much of my adult life focusing on my career and I take pride in my achievements in my field.

— Rachel Lindsay

Education is no longer thought of as a preparation for adult life, but as a continuing process of growth and development from…

— Stephen Mitchell

It has taken me most of my adult life to come to terms with who I am. To do that, I had…

— Janet Jackson

“It seems to me that childhood ends and adult life begins the moment you stop believing your parents can rescue you.”

— Julie Murphy

I've just always rocked the goatee. Maybe a beard for a minute or some thick sideburns, but I've only been clean-shaven for,…

— Jason Winston George

When you've done something for more than a third of your life, your whole adult life, and then all of a sudden…

— Brian O'Driscoll

I've spent so much of my adult life in relationships that it's actually quite pleasant to be alone at last. I turned…

— Matt Roper

I'm a Clevelander. I've spent the majority of my adult life here. Every day when I come to work, it's 'Let's turn…

— Joe Thomas

I think President Obama wanted to have the right fit for his different cabinet positions, and I believe that experience is what…

— Hilda Solis

“Odds are, you’ll live a whole adult lifetime that wasn’t available to your parents and grandparents. Their life expectancy at birth was…

— Bob P. Buford

“You can't run away from your problems. They will just chase you and get bigger and bigger. If you stand and face…

— W.H. Fordham

All my adult life, I have lived with Labour lies about tax cuts. Their cry is always the same. Tax cuts are…

— John Redwood

“ 'Adult life is a series of compromises, Adrien.' 'Yeah, only you're negotiating with the Devil.' Still not looking at me, he…

— Josh Lanyon

“The struggle of the sexes to know each other, to see each other, and to communicate deeply - a struggle which may…

— Robert Kegan

The one that I really call love is when I feel like everything's okay. That state of, it's all right here. I…

— Daphne Zuniga

“And then, a second surprise: for the first time in my adult life I was not leaping to become my mother's judge,…

— Sana Krasikov

“Outside Styx's apartment was not the first time Rochester and I had met, or would it be the last. We first encountered…

— Jasper Fforde

“It became clearer and clearer to me that I had found a woman who possessed the strength and like-mindedness I'd been hoping…

— Evan Handler

You know, how am I leading my own life? What am I denying? Since I brought such great powers of denial into…

— Terry Gross

Avoidance behavior is a response designed to protect the infant from behavioral disorganization. If we transfer this concept to adult life, we…

— Anthony Storr

Well, when people ask where I'm from, I usually say the Midwest, because that covers both homes, in a way. Obviously I…

— Peter Buffett

“From this cascade comes a prediction: getting too little sleep across the adult life span will significantly raise your risk of developing…

— Matthew Walker

“It was the summer in America when the nausea returned, when the joking didn't stop, when the speculation and the theorizing and…

— Philip Roth

“It doesn't matter what the manifest problem was in our childhood family. In a home where a child is emotionally deprived for…

— M. Catherine Thomas

“Elizabeth snapped awake in a terrified instant as the door to her bed chamber was flung open near dawn, and Ian stalked…

— Judith McNaught

“We get in and I start the car. “Are you going to be good to Lani?” I ask. I think of Tommy…

— Kaui Hart Hemmings

“to look twenty-nine. The young look older and the old look younger, collapsing the adult lifespan into one long twentysomething ride. Even…

— Meg Jay

“We all know many people who come from hard-working families, where they had to grow up with a bare minimum and become…

— Anna Stevens

“I was a very nervous kid, I was anxious all the time when I was younger, but what's nice is that some…

— John Mulvaney