Top 392 Adulthood Quotes & Sayings

Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood.

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

Marriage is such a mark of adulthood in my mind.

Adulthood can do the most horrific things to the best of people.

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

I feel that adolescence has served its purpose when a person arrives at adulthood with a strong sense of self-esteem, the ability to relate intimately, to communicate congruently, to take responsibility, and to take risks. The end of adolescence is the beginning of adulthood. What hasn't been finished then will have to be finished later.

One of the privileges of adulthood is that your parents don't get to tell you what to do.

Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.

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

College and the responsibilities that came with it helped me transition from teenager to adulthood.

Reading is the scourge of childhood because, in a sense, it creates adulthood.

Adulthood is hell.

Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind.

I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.

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

one of the blessings of adulthood is that one is no longer addressed as a thing.

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.

For me adulthood is realising that there are no grown-ups and everyone else is winging it.

The powerlessness of the child is often forgotten. And after it comes the terrifying phase of moving into adulthood.

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

I've crossed adulthood, and I feel like lots of people are fighting that.

But for me, to get the tattoo was part of moving into adulthood. Making a choice that is permanent and that I'll have to stick with.

Why do children want to grow up? Because they experience their lives as constrained by immaturity and perceive adulthood as a condition of greater freedom and opportunity. But what is there today, in America, that very poor and very rich adolescents want to do but cannot do? Not much: they can do drugs, have sex, make babies, and get money (from their parents, crime, or the State). For such adolescents, adulthood becomes synonymous with responsibility rather than liberty. Is it any surprise that they remain adolescents?

Most women have learned a great deal about how to set goals for our First Adulthood and how to roll with the punches when we hit a rough passage. But we're less prepared for our Second Adulthood as we approach life after retirement, where there are no fixed entrances or exits, and lots of sand into which it is easy to bury our heads.

I think that young people are less attached to items and objects now. They're less attached to consuming things and accruing things because they see it as a system that doesn't necessarily work and give them a sense of adulthood and fulfillment. They're much more in tune with wanting to achieve a skill, a form of self-expression, or a body of knowledge that fulfills the same function, fulfills their adulthood.

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

When I came into my adulthood, I recognized how fortunate I was to be doing what I loved to do.

Adulthood brings with it a pernicious illusion of control.

In 1990, when we started the Black Community Crusade for Children, we were always talking about all children, but we paid particular attention to children who were not white, who were poor, who were disabled, and who were the most vulnerable.Parents didn't think their children would live to adulthood, and the children didn't think they were going to live to adulthood. That's when we started our first gun-violence campaign. We've lost 17 times more young black people to gun violence since 1968 than we lost in all the lynching in slavery.

You think that adulthood will hit and you'll suddenly be more capable. But that doesn't happen, ever, does it?

Psychological adulthood is by no means a universal attainment.

I've spent my entire adulthood in pro football.

gods are children's blankets that get carried over into adulthood.

The transition into adulthood is so exciting and remarkable to witness as parent.

Everything in adulthood can be traced back to childhood.

Once you've raised a child to adulthood, you can only be as demanding as your offspring allow.

Just try to stay a child as long as you can. Don't force into adulthood.

In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark.

As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts.

'Star Wars' boils down to the transition from adolescence into adulthood.

People evolve and it's important to not stop evolving just because you've reached 'adulthood.'

Parents who press their children to succeed do so in hopes of preparing them for an adulthood of high achievement.

Now that I'm feeling the responsibilities of adulthood, the choices we make become an incredible weight.

Childhood, young adulthood is fluid. And it's very easy to get labeled very young and have to carry something through your childhood and into your adulthood that is not necessarily who you are.

Yeah, we were looking for a way to represent adulthood and the passing into adulthood. And I think, for me personally and a lot of the folks that I work with, childhood is kind of a sacred, special kind of point in time that has a real joy and purity to it. And we sort of long on a daily basis to reach back and kind of grab onto that in some way.

When you reach a certain age, you have fulfilled your childhood dream and whatever your first or second adulthood led you to do. Then you're in your third adulthood, the one that leads to the grave, and you ask yourself, "What will I do between now and then?" Instead of thinking in terms of glamour, you start thinking in terms of reform - your contribution to the world.

Adulthood does not exist. Man is an eternal child.

One of my Secrets of Adulthood is: Most decisions don't require extensive research.

If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.

The definition of adulthood is that you want to sleep.

I believe I owe all the best parts of my adulthood to embracing my imperfections and showcasing them.

I hated childhood / I hate adulthood / And I love being alive.

The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.

A pony is a childhood dream. A horse is an adulthood treasure.

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

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.

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

One of my most important 'Secrets of Adulthood': Outer order contributes to inner calm.

Adulthood was invented to repair the wounds of childhood.

New York grabbed me too hard, as did adulthood.