Adulthood Quotes

270 Adulthood quotes by 230 unique authors

Despite the fact that I have no regrets about how things turned out in my life, I still can't help wanting to understand my intense… — Emily Giffin
If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils. — P.D. James
I can't believe it's actually happening. This is independent adulthood, this is what it feels like. Shouldn't there be some sort of ritual? In certain… — David Nicholls
I don't think I'd have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I'd known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed. — Bill Watterson
I had spent my childhood and the better part of my early adulthood trying to understand my mother. She had been an extraordinarily difficult person,… — Dani Shapiro
I can see why you opted out of Knight training,” I countered. “They’d have ‘accidentally’ killed you before you made it to adulthood. — Jenna Black
I don't know what rituals my kids will carry into adulthood, whether they'll grow up attached to homemade pizza on Friday nights, or the scent… — Barbara Kingsolver
You might wish to revisit your understanding of the word everything.” Gregory turned to his mother. “Vocabulary and comprehension were never her strong suits.” Violet… — Julia Quinn
Welcome to adulthood," she said. "It sucks as much as high school. — Sarah Dessen
One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ...and accepts his sentence undismayed. — Robert A. Heinlein
Adulthood can do the most horrific things to the best of people. — Neal Shusterman
In their youth, mortals behave more like nymphs. Adulthood seems impossibly distant, let alone the enfeeblement of old age. But ponderously, inevitably, it overtakes you. — Brandon Mull
You don't have to be 'adults'... but be someone who can take responsibility for their own words and actions. Believe it or not, that's actually… — Natsuki Takaya
Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit. — Robert Charles Wilson
We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination. — David Lynch
My God, he couldn't help thinking, how terrible it is to be that age, to have emotions so near the surface that the slightest turbulence… — Richard Russo
As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts. — David Sedaris
The prospects were depressing: Adulthood meant that I'd have to stop having fun and do something I didn't really want to do for the rest… — Bruce Campbell
Soon, he would become an adult. And when he did, there would be not going back because adulthood was akin to what his father had… — Khaled Hosseini
I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children stories. They were better than than that. They just were. Adult stories never made… — Neil Gaiman
The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between imagination and resignation. You traded one for the other and… — Joe Hill
For me, it feels like driving from truth into a lie, from adulthood to childhoold. I watch the land of pavement and glass and metal… — Veronica Roth
If this was adulthood the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert without eating her vegetables. — Lisa Alther
Singlehood is not longer a state to be overcome as soon as possible. It has its own rewards. Marriage is not the gateway to adulthood… — Stephanie Coontz
It's a Little Leaguers game that major leaguers play extraordinarily well, a game that excites us throughout adulthood. The crack of the bat and the… — Mario Cuomo

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