Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

I'm just getting settled as a responsible man - but if you split the elephant into little mouthfuls it will be fine.

I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.

You gotta mature, you know.

I'm ready to live on my own. It's a really big step, but I'm ready.

I'm one of those people that makes a better adult than I did a kid.

I told my parents, 'You've taken care of me all my life, helped me through college. You've been awesome, but now it's my turn to be my own man.'

Sometimes you have to mature.

My kids have really brought me into maturity on another level and I really appreciate them for that.

I agree I was rash and got totally out of hand when I was a teenager, but I took hold of my life.

When I was a child, I acted like child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

All the boys were grown up and done for by this time; so it is scarcely worth while saying anything more about them. You may see the twins and Nibs and Curly any day going to an office, each carrying a little bag and an umbrella. Michael is an engine driver. Slightly married a lady of title, and so he became a lord. You see that judge in a wig coming out at the iron door? That used to be Tootles. The bearded man who doesn't know any story to tell his children was once John.

Dare to be the adults we want our children to be.

One foot in front of the other, wasn't that the grownup way of solving problems? Surely he ought to be a grownup at his age.

We live a protracted adolescence. At some point you must leave the party.

I was freakishly ambitious. I didn't want to be a child. I wanted my own flat, to work and be a grown up.

Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard

I have a lot of stories about being a kid because it was the last time I was interesting.

That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up.

Welcome to adulthood." Cob said. "Every child finds a day when the realize that adults can be weak and wrong just like everyone else. After that day, you are an adult. Like it or not.

A boy has two jobs. One is just being a boy. The other is growing up to be a man.

It's a little known fact, but parents are like superheroes. With just a few magic words they can make you feel ten feet tall and bulletproof, they can slay the dragons of doubt and worry, they can make your problems disappear. But of course they can only do this as long as you're a child. When you've become an adult, become the master of your own universe, they're not as powerful as they once were. Maybe that's why so many of us take our time growing up.

I've grown up, everyone's got to grow up. But there's something inside me, I'm always going to have that little sort of, how do you say, child streak.

Maybe it has something to do with turning 30. I don't feel as shy or nervous or self-conscious. I have more confidence that I can handle what life brings me. I don't feel scared to have an idea and express it.

At some point, people have to come out of the penalty box for the things they have done in the past.

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 put the ways of childhood behind me.