Accepting Quote by Robert A. Heinlein

“Children seldom are able to realize that death will come to them personally. One might define adulthood as the age at which a person…

— Robert A. Heinlein

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

— John Fowles

The definition of adulthood is that you want to sleep.

— Paula Poundstone

Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed.

— Ellen Goodman

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

Adulthood does not exist. Man is an eternal child.

— Nelson Rodrigues

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to…

— Thomas Szasz

“Maturity is so often considered to be synonymous with ‘adult.’ But I truly feel that maturity may be defined by the ability to be…

— Gina Marinello-Sweeney

Adulthood is Latin for pretending to like people.

— Nikhil Saluja

Adulthood has something to do with not choosing any of the pure points of view, but living about half of what you really want…

— Robert Bly

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

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Adulthood is accretive by nature, a thing which arrives in ragged stages and uneven overlaps.”

— Stephen King