Quotes about Adulthood

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

We can't surrender to the culture. We've minimized the role of fathers, so we've created a generation of barbarians, children who become men without growing up. They stay in boyhood through their 20s and 30s, sometimes their whole lives. They think of themselves first, indulge in pornography, do what they feel like, leave their wives, and culture, and churches to raise their children.

We look on childhood and youth as those "times of life" rich with possibility only because there still seem to remain so many paths open to a successful outcome. Each year that passes, however, increases the competitive value of making strategically correct decisions. The errors of childhood can be more easily amended than those of adulthood.

When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.

In my youth I had three teachers: friends, enemies, and books. In my adulthood I had three professors: God, nature, and life.