Adult Quote by Henry C. Link

There's nothing more adult than being ripped away from friends and family, you know? Having to manage a life when you're not fully there,…

— Jack Antonoff

An adult is one who has lost the grace, the freshness, the innocence of the child, who is no longer capable of feeling pure…

— Arnaud Desjardins

To most of us, adulthood means being able to earn a living, possess a home, get married and rear children, and this implies having…

— Jane Ridley

the term 'young adults' which is so often used today seems to me a misnomer, and one which, if taken seriously, may lead the…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

“Adults create perennial sellers—and adults take responsibility for themselves. Children expect opportunities to be handed to them; maturity is understanding you have to go…

— Ryan Holiday

“I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up:that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Being abandoned through the neglect of our developmental dependency needs is the major factor in becoming an adult child. We grow up; we look…

— John Bradshaw

Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.

— John Fowles

I used to believe, although I don't now, that growing and growing up are analogous, that both are inevitable and uncontrollable processes. Now it…

— Nick Hornby

All any grownup expects of an adolescent is that he act like an adult and be satisfied to be treated like a child.

— John Grant

A person remains immature, whatever his age, as long as he thinks of himself as an exception to the human race.

— Harry Allen Overstreet