Adulthood Quote by Wendy Wasserstein Download Open image “The struggle to be considered a grown-up begins, I believe, shortly after birth.” — Wendy Wasserstein ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adulthood Believe Birth I believe Struggle
Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you're a grownup, but it's not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak. — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
The tough thing about adulthood is it starts before you even know it starts. — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
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 seems to me that growing up is governed by the will, that one can choose to become an adult, but only at given moments. These moments come along fairly infrequently -during crises in relationships, for example,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share
Because when does anybody really grow up? I mean, I feel more grown up now, more in a place of solidity and peace. But… — Priscilla Ahn Copy Share Image
“If you're referring to yourself as a 'grown-up', then you're still totally a kid. 'Grown ups' call themselves adults” — Chelsea Fine Copy Share Image
Many of us spend the first part of our adult lives becoming - stepping into the roles we take on so that they come… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
When I call to mind my earliest impressions, I wonder whether the process ordinarily referred to as growing up is not actually a process… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Growing up means leaving home and becoming a self supporting adult. I think this the hardest task any human being hast to face. — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents. — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
“Not everybody gets to grow up. First you have to survive your childhood, and then begins the hard work of growing into it.” — Gail Godwin Copy Share Image
Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves… — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
I think 'growing up' would mean that you are incredibly tolerant and easygoing, liked everything, curious about the world because you weren't so egotistically… — Louise Rennison Copy Share Image
One of the things about what . . . I do - writing plays - is that a poll is not taken before you… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
anyone who writes plays is unbelievably persistent, because there isn't a need in the world for plays. Somehow you internally have to feel a… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
I really worked at becoming more assertive, and now none of my friends talk to me. — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I just… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
Personally I don't spend much time thinking about being funny. For me it's always been just a way to get by, a way to… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
being funny is a way of being liked and a way of dealing with sadness. — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents. — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
No matter how successful I become as a playwright, my mother would be thrilled to hear me tell her that I'd just lost twenty… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
I very much write from characters. Those people start speaking, and then I have them in the house with me and I live with… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
“In the world of The Age of Innocence , a financial disaster or moral scandal would permanently exile a guest from the finest dinner… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
People often say that you should never work with child actors. I think that's all wrong. Children have not had the imagination kicked out… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
Two things suck about becoming an adult male - paying taxes and getting a finger in your butt. — Guy Code Copy Share Image
You can only pretend for so long before reality hits and you realize he/she is not who you thought or what you truly want. — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept me in… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“English: "Being an adult doesn't mean killing the child we once were; it means being able to protect him." Česky: „Být dospělým neznamená zabít… — Sebastián Wortys Copy Share Image
“I wondered what a man I had encountered the day before on the plane en route to Chicago's O'Hare airport would have made of… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
“Sometimes your kids will say the nastiest things, won't they, Rose? You want to ask,'Whose child is this?'" Rose chuckled. "But usually, they're just… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
No one, it has been said, will ever look at the Moon in the same way again. More significantly can one say that no… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Being an adult is the ability to postpone a want for the sake of a family need. — Chris Hogan Copy Share Image
In their youth, mortals behave more like nymphs. Adulthood seems impossibly distant, let alone the enfeeblement of old age. But ponderously, inevitably, it overtakes… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to… — Janet Napolitano Copy Share Image
