Quotes about Adulthood
When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
- CS Lewis
We thought we were running away from the grown-ups, and now we're the grown-ups.
- Margaret Atwood
Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.
- Brigham Young
Most adults have forgotten what they had to do to survive childhood.
- Mark Vonnegut
Lay a lost and delightful world, the world of my childhood, the world of sweet and irresponsible days at Qunu and Mqhekezweni. Now I was a man, and I would never again play thinti, or steal maize, or drink milk from a cow's udder.
- Nelson Mandela
That was why his parents said, “He is old enough. Ask him.”
- John 9:23
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside childish ways.
- 1 Corinthians 13:11
What I am saying is that as long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a slave, although he is the owner of everything.
- Galatians 4:1
If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?
- Vincent Van Gogh
Maturity doesn't come with age. It begins with the acceptance of responsibility.
- John Maxwell
The vast majority of children are not trained in the way they should go, for when they reach adulthood, they do not walk with God.
- JC Ryle
But in order to have an adult faith, most of us have to outgrow and unlearn much of what we were taught about religion.
- Kathleen Norris