Adolescence Quote by Jean Rostand

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

— Chris Hogan

“The adult chops down his childhood to help his grown-up self. The unsentimentality is appealing, don't you think?”

— Salman Rushdie

“The trick to being an adult is maintaining that childlike wonder while still managing to do soul-killing things like paying bills.”

— Katee Robert

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

“I want to keep all of me, and I don't think you get to do that. I think becoming an adult means leaving part…

— Katie Kennedy

“To be adult means, among other things, to see one’s own life in continuous perspective, both in retrospect and in prospect.”

— Samuel H. Barondes

Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about…

— C. S. Lewis

“If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being an adult is about learning how to die.”

— Stephen King

“Some of being an adult, though, is about protecting and preserving what we discover to be the best parts of ourselves, and here’s a…

— Shauna Niequist

Being an adult means knowing you can have cake for every meal, but choosing not to have cake for every meal because you're too…

— Anonymous

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We cannot know the young child's personality by studying his systems of interest, for his attention is as yet too labile, his reactions impulsive,…

— Anonymous