Tim Pratt Quotes

Some people do need to grow up, but I don't think I'm there yet. I don't think I'm ready to do grown-up things and be a grown-up.

Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.

When you get to your mid-20s, you start to feel responsibilities for the things that you do and the people around you. It's a cool age.

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

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.

Growing up is mostly the process of having to acknowledge the differences between your world and the whole world.

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.

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

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

I'm a grown-up now, and I value the training I had.

I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.

Looking back, I realise I had to grow up and be responsible at a very tender age.

Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.

Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.

I don't think I really realized what being an adult and being a real grownup was until I was at least twenty-eight.

I'm no longer in my 20s, and I think, by default, the rose-colored glasses are off.

A lot of times, adults confuse growing up or becoming more mature with a sense of seriousness, a sense of boringness, a sense of just stupidness.

I've been sitting at the grown-ups' table my whole life.

I'm a grown man now, I've got a family, I understand responsibility.

When you're young it's boring to be a keeper.

Just because I was 30 doesn't mean I was grown. God, I was such an idiot. I was an absolute idiot at 30. And I grew up.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

I've gotten away with a lot in my life. The older you get the more you realize you're not getting away with it, it's taking its toll somewhere. So you try not to put yourself in those situations. Part of the mysterious process called growing up. Some people do that better than others.

I still feel like I haven't grown up.

I think I am an adult.