Glenn Kelman Quotes

I know I felt like I was ready to be an adult long before the rest of the world agreed. I'd already realized that a lot of grown-ups didn't know any more than I did, and some of them were even dumber than I was, and even the ones who were smarter weren't using their smarts for things I necessarily considered worthwhile.

By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.

I have a lot of growing up to do, or a lot of growing down. I think that's probably more appropriate.

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

The older you get the more you understand what you're doing.

What teens will realize is always a mystery to me. I'm still realizing so many things myself, very belatedly, that it seems unwise to think I have any right to be showing people things in hopes that they'll realize them.

I think part of being an adult is leaving the fairytale behind.

At 40 years old you simply know what life is about.

When you're 22 or 23, you think the world revolves around you, and I felt that way for a long time. But I just turned 30, and I love it! You realize, 'Whoa, baby, you ain't all that.' And you're not! You're just a woman out there doing something she loves.

I'll never forget when I was 12 years old. I couldn't wait until the day I was 16 and could drive a car. I thought that'd be the end of life's problems. I mean, you can drive! What is there left? And then I turned 16 and realized there were still problems.

Obviously, aging has a certain amount of mellowing process because there's certain things you realise you were doing when you were younger that were plain ridiculous, stupid.

As a kid, you don't know what's going on at the time. But once you get older, you start to realize it.

You mature, you learn things.

Back when I was an idealistic 18-year-old on my way to Chicago, I might have believed that being on the side of virtue would guarantee a good outcome. These many years later, I know better.

When you are 16 or 17, you think you are right about everything. But when you are over 20, you realise the mistakes you made at 16 or 18. You learn with age.

Once you grow up and discover yourself as a human being you look at things for what they are.

There's truths you have to grow into.

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.

I'm OK being the veteran, but I'm still just a kid.

I've experienced a lot for someone my age that a lot of people will be able to relate to.

When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.

I know you think that when you're 35, 45, 55, you'll be different. But I'm going to let you in on a bit of a secret. You're going to look different, and your life is going to be different, but in your head you'll always be that 16-year-old girl.

I'm totally growing up.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.