Adulthood Quotes

• Marriage is such a mark of adulthood in my mind.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Mind
  • Marriage
  • Adulthood

• Growing up is loving what you can afford to.

  

  Babs H. Deal
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Goal
  • Gift
  • Adulthood

• I love fashion. I always have. When I was a kid, I was in almost full-on costumes when I went to school, and I've retained a bit of that in my adulthood.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Love
  • Fashion
  • Kid

• Adulthood isn't black and white - it's a thousand shades of grey. Or taupe. It's not who you are, it's where you are.

  

  Elizabeth Noble
  • White
  • Adulthood

• Adulthood is hell.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Hell
  • Adulthood

• New York grabbed me too hard, as did adulthood.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Me
  • Hard
  • New York

• At the same time, the daughters, in adulthood, must also make the effort to really know their mothers—which many daughters do not—in order to understand what forces shaped those mothers. These daughters need to discover what torment may have unwittingly informed their mothers’ parental choices, and to see their mothers as composites of strengths and weaknesses, rather than as all good or all bad.

  

  Victoria Secunda
  • Time
  • Good
  • May

• It may comfort you to know that if your child reaches the age of eleven or twelve and you have a good bond or relationship, no matter how dramatic adolescence becomes, you children will probably turn out all right and want some form of connection to you in adulthood.

  

  Charlotte Kasl
  • Good
  • Children
  • May

• All human beings, all persons who reach adulthood in the world today are programmed biocomputers. No one of us can escape our own nature as programmable entities. Literally, each of us may be our programs, nothing more, nothing less.

  

  John Lilly
  • World
  • Today
  • Program

• The onset of adulthood is an organic, creeping process. No one wakes up one day and decides, 'Lo, on this day I shall forever put away childish things and begin clipping coupons to go to Wal-Mart.'

  

  David Carr
  • Up
  • Forever
  • Process

• The most important lesson I've learned is to not limit myself. Kids at my age often get intimidated by the idea of adulthood and feel like they have to know exactly who they are and what they want to do with their lives. I've realized that it's okay to take my time figuring it out and exploring different aspects of myself instead of fixating on one idea of who I am.

  

  Amandla Stenberg
  • Time
  • Different
  • Important

• Just as the blurring between childhood and adulthood has produced the kidult, so the stretching of middle into old age has fostered another peculiar chimera: septuagenarians with apoptosis sporting the depeche mode.

  

  Will Self
  • Age
  • Childhood
  • Middle

• Being silly is still allowed, not excluded by adulthood. What's excluded by adulthood is thoughtlessness, so be thoughtful and silly...

  

  Hank Green
  • Adulthood
  • Thoughtlessness

• Compulsory sports for those who by temperament or physique do not qualify may be a disaster. . . . The repercussions may be extreme . . . and they may be very long-lasting, even throughout adulthood.

  

  John Money
  • Sports
  • Disaster
  • Temperament

• One day he told me that he’d spent his adulthood trying to let go of his past, and he remarked how ironic it was that he had to get closer to it in order to let it go.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Ironic
  • Adulthood
  • Remarked

• In their youth, mortals behave more like nymphs. Adulthood seems impossibly distant, let alone the enfeeblement of old age. But ponderously, inevitably, it overtakes you.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Mortals
  • Adulthood
  • Nymphs

• Sroufe informally told me that he thought that resilience in adulthood could be predicted by how lovable mothers rated their kids at age two.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Kids
  • Mother`s
  • Predicted

• Somewhere between childhood and adulthood we can lose our sense of conscience if we're not careful.

  

  Allison DuBois
  • Childhood
  • Conscience
  • Adulthood

• In our society, as people pass out of young adulthood, they tend to relate to themselves more in terms of what they are no longer than what they are now, and that's psychologically low-grade devastating.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Society
  • Relate

• Welcome to adulthood," she said. "It sucks as much as high school.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • School
  • Adulthood

• A hallmark of virtuous adulthood is learning to find freedom in your work rather than freedom from your work, even when work might hurt.

  

  Benjamin E. Sasse
  • Work
  • Freedom
  • Lerning

• I started reading and fell in love with the worlds and characters Lev Grossman created. I'm taken with his exploration of an idealized childhood fantasy through the lens of adulthood, or coming into adulthood.

  

  Hale Appleman
  • Worlds
  • Childhood fantasy
  • Characters Lev Grossman

• I kinda came into my manhood, or what I thought was my adulthood, early. I had to show up, and I had to make sure I had gas money, food money, rent money, clothes money - everything was on me, startin' at that age, so that's what led me to start hustlin', that's what led me to start to try to find ways to fend for myself. And once I did that, I was full-time, bein' in the street, and, bein' in the street, it's cold. It's the way the streets operate, and you have to adapt to that.

  

  Nipsey Hussle
  • Streets
  • Manhood
  • Adulthood

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