Top 100 Being An Adult Quotes
#1. Part of being an adult, someone told me once, is accepting your parents as they are, with all their failings.
Danielle Steel
#2. I realized, then, that being an adult was just about bullshitting everyone around you. Just do things until someone stops you from doing those things, and then say, "Oh, that isn't allowed?
Garth Stein
#3. And, as I get to the airport, I realize that I'm a runner. Life gets hot and I pack my things and leave. It's new, but so is being an adult. I'm learning about myself. But, hey! I did what I came to do. So I'm an accomplished runner. Greer
Tarryn Fisher
#4. New Life Realization #1:
Being an adult is hard work. I know people tell you this growing up, but it doesn't really sink in until you're living it, waist deep in the swamps of no-free-time and not-enough-money.
New Life Realization #2:
It's worth it.
Cora Carmack
#5. Maybe being an adult wasn't crossing some arbitrary age line into wisdom. Maybe it was like anything else - training wheels and mistakes, trial and error, and now and again that feeling that you might have wings.
Megan Crane
#6. Being a kid is so much more fun than being an adult. I think that's the crux of it. I think men are just less inclined to grow up because it's much more fun being a child.
Robert Kazinsky
#7. Being poor is like being a child. Being rich is like being an adult: you get to do whatever you want. Everyone is nice when they have to be; rich people are nice when they feel like it.
Fran Lebowitz
#8. I don't think I really realized what being an adult and being a real grownup was until I was at least twenty-eight.
Jodie Sweetin
#9. I'm excited about turning 40. I've been an adult for a long time, but there is a difference between being an adult and being a grown-up. I'm someone's mummy now and I'm enjoying that. I feel as if I'm about to hit my peak.
Jill Scott
#10. I think part of being an adult is leaving the fairytale behind.
Rashida Jones
#11. Remember what being an adult is: It has nothing to do with money or awards
Frank Abagnale
#12. When a complex is acquired, personal development is stopped and the person even being an adult, sometimes behaves in a childish and immature way
Sunday Adelaja
#13. In an age when all that was old seems new again, Bernard DeVoto's The Hour couldn't have made a more timely reappearance. This book reminds me of one of the joys of being an adult-cocktail hour!
Graydon Carter
#14. I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been my experience.
John Green
#15. That's the problem with being an adult: people have already made up their minds about us; we've even made up our minds about ourselves.
Edward M. Hallowell
#16. Yeah, but most of the time I think being an adult is not all it's cracked up to be. I've always wanted to postpone growing up for as long as possible.
Adrianne Noel
#17. Learning to think for yourself is how you separate yourself from your parents and make the transition from being a child to being an adult, though part of maturity is being able to take opposing viewpoints into consideration.
Belle Blackburn
#18. As far I'm concerned, being an adult is way more fun than being a kid. But then I was a kid who wanted to be an adult. I'd watch shows like 'Bewitched' and see Darren come home and mix a martini and I'd go, 'That looks awesome! I want to do that!'
Paul Feig
#19. If cynicism is inevitable as one ages, so is the yearning for innocence. To children heaven is being an adult, and to adults heaven is being children again.
Diane Ackerman
#20. Sometimes I think that the one thing I love most about being an adult is the right to buy candy whenever and wherever I want.
Ryan Gosling
#21. Already, though, she understood the difference between being a child and being an adult. The difference is when someone says he can keep the bad things away, a child believes him.
Joe Hill
#23. Being an adult doesn't mean you're suddenly stuffy and boring - it just means you're a little more responsible, a little more considerate. Well, that's my definition of what being an adult means. And I'm always right, so, ya know, that's what it is.
Lindy Zart
#24. I tend to not speak up as much, so saying no is rather difficult for me. The biggest step of being an adult is saying, "This is what I do like. This is what I don't like." Being yourself means certain people aren't going to like that. I'm still figuring it out and taking things day by day.
Selena Gomez
#25. The reality about being economically dependent on someone else usually doesn't work out for women in the end. It's about being an adult and being responsible for your life. Most women have to work, so let's just get on with it.
Candace Bushnell
#26. Part of being an adult is treating women like women.
Jon Hamm
#27. I wouldn't say in all situations, but a lot of times kids can be the most reasonable people around because they don't have the deal with all the drama that goes along with being an adult.
RJ Mitte
#28. And I was scrambling around trying to make money and to study and master (and fail at mastering) the art of being an adult.
Miriam Toews
#29. Being an adult means never having to show your work on math problems. - T-SHIRT
Darynda Jones
#30. People are always like, 'Oh, 'Jurassic Park' is on ... ' or 'Oh, 'The River Wild' is on ... ' I actually haven't seen any of my movies in a long time. Being more self-aware now, and being an adult, I'm a little bit embarrassed to watch them.
Joseph Mazzello
#31. Sometimes being an adult means doing the right thing, even if it's not what you want.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#32. Being an adult, it seemed, was horrible. But being a child was awful too, and moving from one state to the other only meant you were moving closer to death, with so much and so little to talk about all at the same time, and how was that even possible?
Alison Espach
#33. Being an adult is the ability to postpone a want for the sake of a family need.
Chris Hogan
#34. That is the really great thing about being an adult male, once you get married and have children the whole decision-making process is taken out of your hands, and I for one am extremely grateful.
P. J. O'Rourke
#35. The only obvious advantage to being an adult is that you can eat your dessert without haying sampled the vegetables.
Lisa Alther
#36. She gets sick of things fast, it's from being an adult.
Emma Donoghue
#37. Being an adult isn't a matter of age. It's a matter of responsibility.
Jonathan L. Howard
#38. I need to find a church on Sunday. I need to say 'please' and 'thank you,' 'yes sir' and 'no ma'am.' Do the little things because that's part of being an adult.
Joe Nichols
#39. Honey, five-years-olds say what they think. Knowing what to say and when is called being an adult.
Lindsay J. Pryor
#40. You are allowed to draw lines even if your feelings are irrational. Part of the marvelous business of being an adult human is that you get to set your own boundaries for whatever reasons you like, without appending a sensible rationale to them.
Mallory Ortberg
#41. If you take nothing else from what I've been through, at least remember this: make your choices well. Because you'll always be accountable for them. That's what being an adult is all about.
Sarah Dessen
#42. Not having sex: it was one of the best things about being an adult.
Hanya Yanagihara
#43. Smoking is, as far as I'm concerned, the entire point of being an adult.
Fran Lebowitz
#45. When I was a kid, I would be watching TV shows like, you know, like 'Get Smart' and be like, 'That's what being an adult is.'
Bruce Eric Kaplan
#46. Being an adult--was this it? Doing the thing you most in your life didn't want to do, and doing it with a shrug?
Judy Blundell
#47. When you're a kid going on being an adult, everything radiates so deeply and resonates so passionately, and I like the opportunity to tell those stories.
Joseph McGinty Nichol
#48. I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult.
Lois Lowry
#49. Everyone has to learn to work with people - it's part of being an adult, too.
Steve Grand
#50. Being an adult means accepting those situations where no action is possible.
John D. MacDonald
#51. The child plays at being an adult long before he is one, and so you can play with more desirable beliefs while you are still growing into that more beneficial picture.
Seth Roberts
#52. Now most young people spend their twenties and thirties in another stage of life, where they go to university, start a career, and experience being an adult outside of their parents' home before marriage.
Aziz Ansari
#53. Being a child sucked. Being a teenager was worse. And being an adult seemed so far away that I had a better chance at swimming the length of the ocean than growing up.
Shannon A. Thompson
#54. Chemistry is good for fun - it's like baseball. It has its role for small children, but I can't see an adult being concerned with it.
Sheldon Lee Glashow
#55. It's been very hard, after being mostly a mom, to develop an adult life of my own. And not being married anymore, I have to come up with challenges.
Danielle Steel
#56. Why did I think back then, that happiness was always just ahead in the future, when I would be an adult, able to make my own decisions, go my own way, be my own person? Why had it seemed that being a child was never enough?
V.C. Andrews
#57. You don't treat me like a child."
He smiled. "Of course I do, but you seem to have this ridiculous notion that being treated like a child means to be treated with less respect than an adult.
Derek Landy
#58. I thought twenty was pretty scary, like, not being able to call myself a teenager anymore, and feeling like an adult - that kind of made me nervous.
Adam Lamberg
#59. I do what I want, when I want, how I want, and because of that, it has taken me so long to grow into an adult human being.
Michelle Rodriguez
#60. I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if I'd been afraid of the wrong white people all along - where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes, but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony.
Clarence Thomas
#61. I don't need to prove I'm an adult by being ultra-sexy that's immature
Aly Michalka
#62. I don't understand how an adult can write those last two sentences and not want to kill themselves for being so despicable.
Harvey Pekar
#63. Writing is an act of faith. One must believe and see people who are invisible to others and be faithful to tell half formed stories. It's like being on the trail of an apparition who's repeatedly just out of reach.
K. Youngblood
Katherine Imogene Youngblood
#64. The fourth way to get a boy to like you is to be yourself. Now, I am contractually obligated as an adult to give that advice, even though it doesn't work. But yeah, be yourself, even though no one has any idea what it means to be yourself. Like whose self would I otherwise be being?
John Green
#65. I want to make people smile. I want to tell an epic story ... with laughter. I want to change the way people view the world. I want life to stop being so damn dramatic all the time. I want ... what are you doing?
Cassie Mae
#66. Every adult should be an expert on teenagers, after spending life's seven longest years being one.
Cullen Hightower
#67. Adel could almost feel himself leapfrogging over childhood. Soon, he would land as an adult. And when he did, there would be no going back because adulthood was akin to what his father had once said about being a war hero: once you became one, you died one. Lying
Khaled Hosseini
#68. If I give you two children films then come back and give you an adult film. I just love mixing it up and not being pegged into one specific thing.
Martin Lawrence
#69. Growing up with a name that rhymes with turkey - and jerky - was no great fun. But, as an adult, I tell you, being globally unique in the age of Google can be extremely helpful.
Clay Shirky
#70. I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid.
Stephen Hopkins
#71. Yes, the life of an adult entails accepting and in some way being responsible for pain.
James A. Autry
#72. Soon, he would become an adult. And when he did, there would be not going back because adulthood was akin to what his father had once said about being a war hero: one you became one, you died one.
Khaled Hosseini
#73. As a teenager and young adult, I found being mute intensely isolating and dehumanizing. I felt truly like I was just a pair of eyes and ears - an entity without a body, without a face, and without a mouth. I felt as though I was barely a physical being.
Carl Sutton
#74. People apologize too much, everyone's afraid of giving offence and it leads to literature being written for babies. Low-brow rubbish. That's not the way to become an adult.
Sophie Divry
#75. I love being a teen because you don't have all the responsibilities of an adult yet.
Elizabeth Gillies
#76. What I mean is, I still feel like me. It's not like I wake up and think, I am a responsible adult. I just look in the mirror and see myself. the same stupid person I've been looking at for years.
Eleanor Brown
#77. I was very fortunate to have learned the transforming power of music early in life. As an adult I want to share that power by inspiring people to care about their neighbors near and far. Being a UNICEF Ambassador allows me this kind of opportunity.
India.Arie
#78. Jay became an adult. He got a job, married a wife, and they had a child. Now he had so many things to take care! Like all other grown ups, he talked more of being busy than of being happy. He completely forgot the little bird singing beautiful songs in his heart.
Ilchi Lee
#79. I wasn't a pain in the ass when I was a kid. So I think being a screw-up as an adult is way more acceptable.
Daniel Tosh
#80. That adult trait of being convinced of anything by an assumption of silent superiority
William Faulkner
#81. I believe, though I'm not sure, once you are an adult, and come back to the home of your parents to live, for some odd reason, you're reduced to being a child again, and dependent. Her parents tug her one way - and we pull her another way -
V.C. Andrews
#82. Curiosity killed the cat". I had been one of those annoying children who constantly asked why after being told anything. It seemed that even as an adult I couldn't let things go. I had to dig deeper. I had to find out why.
Carrie Cox
#83. I had chosen to be an adult and I didn't want any charity - not even from my parents. This was one thing I was determined about.
Preeti Shenoy
#84. If you're an adult and still think material wealth leads to happiness, might I suggest not being a moron.
Dov Davidoff
#85. As an adult and a parent, when I'm not acting, I'm not acting. I'm being a parent, and I'm on the school run, and I'm sewing labels onto socks. That's what I'm doing.
Kate Winslet
#86. I'm not a child. Don't talk to me like I am. (Kiara)
No, you're worse. You're an adult who still thinks the world is a beautiful place, filled with people who will help you just for the sake of being nice. Wake up and smell the bloodbath and humility the rest of us have to cope with. (Syn)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#87. For a child, being a child comes naturally. It is
relatively simple. But for an adult to become a father, it is quite another story.
Anupam Sibal
#88. The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else.
Douglas Kennedy
#89. For some reason, anytime an adult decides you are 'representing' something, they decide you should represent it by being as quiet and boring as possible.
Tom Angleberger
#90. Personal growth and professional development require mostly being treated like an adult, which is pretty much the opposite of what happens in most workplaces. People need to be able to make decisions. To do that effectively, they need information and training in how to use it.
Jeffrey Pfeffer
#91. I wanted to tell a dream-come-true story about going from a closeted gay kid who loved pop culture to an out adult man making pop culture. I went from being told when I was 21 that I should never go on TV because of my crossed eyes to winding up being a 'Housewives' whisperer and talk-show host.
Andy Cohen
#92. Acting like an adult and being professional on set and getting my work done has just been a lifestyle for me. It's not something I have to try hard to do, necessarily.
Colin Ford
#93. Pain is an old friend who left briefly and has now returned. Starvation without sustenance, I had grown acquaint. Satiety was a stranger who invaded my deepest being, and now I cannot live without.
Melanie A. Gabbard
#94. I've gone from being bullied by jocks as a kid to being bullied by nerds as an adult.
Chris Hardwick
#95. Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
Garth Nix
#96. Not old enough to feel like an adult , really, but old enough to look like one, and to know the distinction between being carefree and careless.
Gregory Maguire
#97. Being a teenager is chaotic because you're kind of coming into your own, but you're not an adult; you're fighting with your parents over responsibilities and freedom.
Troian Bellisario
#98. I am, after all, an adult, a grown man, a useful human being, even though I lost the career that made me all these things. I won't make that mistake again.
Gillian Flynn
#99. As an adult, you think of yourself as being someone else when you're away from your family, but when you come back to your family, you suddenly find yourself back in the exact same role that you always had in your family as a child and as a teenager.
John Wells
#100. If you were a kid actor, if you had any plans of being an actor as an adult, you were really barking up the wrong tree.
Susan Olsen
