Quotes and Sayings About Adulthood
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Growing up is loving what you can afford to.
-- Babs DealSource : BABS H. DEAL (1968). “THE WALLS CAME TUMBLING DOWN”
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Like everyone I slipped into adulthood like a delinquent through the back door.
-- Charles FinchSource : Charles Finch (2014). “The Last Enchantments”, p.36, Macmillan
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As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts.
-- David Sedaris -
gods are children's blankets that get carried over into adulthood.
-- James Randi -
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Adulthood brings with it a pernicious illusion of control.
-- Juan Gabriel -
one of the blessings of adulthood is that one is no longer addressed as a thing.
-- Kate Millett -
Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.
-- Louise J. KaplanSource : Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books
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Marriage is such a mark of adulthood in my mind.
-- Mandy Moore -
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Adulthood can do the most horrific things to the best of people.
-- Neal Shusterman -
Reading is the scourge of childhood because, in a sense, it creates adulthood.
-- Neil Postman -
In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark.
-- Nicholson Baker -
For me adulthood is realising that there are no grown-ups and everyone else is winging it,
-- Sarah Beeny -
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I went from living in my dad's basement to moving to New York. So I never had that middle ground of easing into adulthood.
-- Alex WinstonSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com