Robert Plant Quotes

I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.

Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

I used to be a child. It came naturally to me. I was an adult for a time, too. That came less naturally.

Will you never grow up?" "I doubt it, and I certainly hope not.

Growing up is scary because it happens without you knowing it.

It's kind of a Peter Pan thing: I want to stay a kid. I love it. But I guess you have to grow up someday. Everybody does.

I still feel like a kid sometimes myself so hard to believe that I'm a mom. Now I'm an adult! It only took 38 years!

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.

I'm not sure I'm adult yet.

I don't feel like I'm grown up. I feel like I'm a kid.

We all have to grow up some time.

It was when I came back from Leeds that things started to change. I went from being a kid to having to man up and going into a man's game.

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

Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood.

It was inconceivable to me as a child that I would be an adult. I mean, one assumed that it would happen, but obviously it didn't happen, or if it did, it happened when your back was turned, and then suddenly you were there. So I couldn't have thought about it much.

I just feel like all the things that I do in my life just make me feel like a grown-up kid. That's pretty much what I am.

Scott: I don't think I'm ready to be a grown-up. Kim: I don't think you are either, buddy. But hey, you'll get it. It just takes practice.

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

When you are in your 20s and you're not married with kids, you're having fun. But when you're in your 30s and you're not married and don't have kids, you begin to develop a Peter Pan complex. As you grow older, you have more responsibilities and you have to step up to them.

I get a little scared of words like maturity.

In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark.

One doesn't remain a teenager forever.

The definition of adulthood is that you want to sleep.

I think Buffy was a grown-up. One of the amazing things about the show was that I was able to grow with her. Yes, she started in high school, and then she went to college, and then essentially she was a mother to all the other Slayers, so I always felt like Buffy was a grown-up.

When you become an adult you just make that transition and you're right... it's fun and exciting to be an adult and exciting to have independence, but once you're out from under the cover of your family's protection and love, you sort of have to take a step back and come to terms with the fact that you won't really ever have that again in the same way. You'll never be a kid again.