Becoming An Adult Quotes

• There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Thinking, Adults, Excitement

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• Becoming an adult means leaving the world of your parents and starting to make your way toward the future that you will share with your peers.

  Alison Gopnik

  Mean, Parent, Leaving

  Alison Gopnik (2016). “The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children”, p.204, Macmillan

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• The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.

  Alden Nowlan

  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Wise

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• One of the greatest struggles of becoming an adult is figuring out what you want to do and what makes you happy. The courageous thing is to stick with it and see it through and see if you were correct.

  Kristen Stewart

  Struggle, Adults, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• I think thinking about becoming an adult, and having to face up to your problems and face up to your insecurities, is difficult for everybody.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Thinking, Insecurity, Adults

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• One of the blessings of becoming an adult is finally seeing my mom and dad as people, not just parents.

  Sara Shandler

  Inspirational, Mom, Dad

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• The years between leaving school and actually becoming an adult are very important years. You make a lot of choices as to the type of life you want to lead and what type of person you want to be. There were so many people who had opinions of me, a lot of them very unflattering, that it was hard to make up my mind about who I was supposed to be.

  George Michael

  School, Years, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've heard this before from people: early 20s kind of screws with your head a little bit because you're transitioning into adulthood and actually becoming an adult with responsibilities and paying bills. So all of a sudden, it's like you're responsible now.

  Dan Byrd

  Responsibility, People, Littles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.

  Jodi Picoult

  Growing Up, Kids, Thinking

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.358, Simon and Schuster

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• People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences; in fact it was just the opposite.

  Chad Harbach

  Opposites, People, Adults

  "The Art of Fielding". Book by Chad Harbach, September 2011.

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• Part of your process of becoming an adult is admitting to yourself that The Doors were a shitty band.

  Moshe Kasher

  Doors, Adults, Admitting

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• I think my guideline has been to find things that inspire me. And as long as I stick to that, I don't think I'll have any problems crossing over to becoming an adult actress.

  Elisabeth Moss

  Thinking, Long, Inspire

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I believe becoming an adult isn't a good thing for a guy. I think that guys should not forget about its youthful soul. So I want to say that I still have a heart of a baby or an elementary school kid.

  Daesung

  Baby, Believe, Heart

  Source: www.bigbangmusic.info

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• So, I'm 34. I'm kind of becoming an adult - kind of, I guess. But I know that I am because, the other day, I said to somebody, 'Dude, dude, don't - those are the good plates.

  Greg Behrendt

  Adults, Kind, Said

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• the real reason I had wanted to grow up, the main reason I had been willing to even consider becoming an adult, was so I could have as many pets as I wanted.

  Betsy Byars

  Growing Up, Real, Pet

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• Except, I think, it's more about me growing up and becoming an adult that I have this new best-friend type of relationship with my mom.

  Ashley Greene

  Mom, Growing Up, Thinking

  Source: my.xfinity.com

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• I believe that this life is all we have. I don't believe in anything after this, so I think the choices we make here are so important and the relationships we choose are crucial, especially in that time when we are developing ourselves and we're becoming adults.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Believe, Thinking, Choices

  Source: collider.com

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• When you are a kid you have your own language, and unlike French or Spanish or whatever you start learning in fourth grade, this one you are born with, and eventually lose...Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult...is only a slow sewing it shut.

  Jodi Picoult

  Kids, Thinking, Brain

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• I got to college in '99, and I went to study literature and writing, and so within a couple years we had Bush elected, 9/11, we were at war, so I was sort of having my political and spiritual awakening at the same time I was becoming an adult, and that's a lot of stuff at once. I became very focused on the state of the world, and I started studying that stuff more, and I just had a real identity crisis. I couldn't even really just study literature.

  Gaby Hoffmann

  Spiritual, Couple, Real

  "‘Transparent’ star Gaby Hoffmann on nudity, child acting, and what scares her". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. September 22, 2016.

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• The interesting thing about the Beatles was: The music was one thing, but we kind of symbolized a certain kind of freedom at a time when people of our generation were just growing up and just becoming adults.

  Paul McCartney

  Growing Up, Our Generation, People

  Source: www.today.com

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• I designed 'Buffy' to be an icon, to be an emotional experience, to be loved in a way that other shows can't be loved. Because it's about adolescence, which is the most important thing people go through in their development, becoming an adult.

  Joss Whedon

  Emotional, Icons, People

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 5, 2001.

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• As many as half of Ethiopias girls become wives before becoming adults. But Ethiopia is also a place where lasting solutions to child marriage are starting to make a difference.

  Helene D. Gayle

  Girl, Children, Differences

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• When you are sixteen you do not know what your parents know, or much of what they understand, and less of what's in their hearts. This can save you from becoming an adult too early, save your life from becoming only theirs lived over again--which is a loss. But to shield yourself--as I didn't do--seems to be an even greater error, since what's lost is the truth of your parents' life and what you should think about it, and beyond that, how you should estimate the world you are about to live in.

  Richard Ford

  Heart, Loss, Thinking

  Richard Ford (2010). “Wildlife”, p.18, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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