Terry Pratchett Quotes

Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

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.

I just feel like I haven't grown up yet. I live on my own and I do grown-up things, but there is something about me that is very youthful.

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

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 prefer men to boys. To clear it up, it's not about an older or younger thing. It's a mindset, not age. There are 18-year-old men out there and there are 40-year-old boys.

You gotta mature, you know.

I want to write about grown-up things.

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 feel like 2012 was the first year I actually felt like a grown-up.

I'm a mature person.

I grew up a lot by going to college. I was still really immature.

When you're doing something you're not used to, you kind of realize that you're still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you're expected to act like an adult, you still haven't actually grown up.

Growing up, getting older, your age - you get to the point where you're comfortable in your own skin, you know who you are.

I don't think the lifestyle that I have, the things going on in my life right now, you could put that on any 23-year-old kid. But, you know, I was raised right, and I'm prepared for whatever.

I had to grow up, but I think I've grown up a lot. I think I'm handling myself well.

I had to grow up, reach a certain age where I see people do have something to show me.

I'm like a guy hanging down from a horse's belly trying to establish control. On a scale of 1 to 100, I'm at 1, and I'm trying to get to 2. The older I get, the more I enjoy control, because I've lived out of control for a long, long time.

Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed.

Men, not children or servants, tempered and taught to the end; Cleansed of servile panic, slow to dread or despise, Humble because of knowledge, mighty by sacrifice.

I’ve aged, but I don’t think I’ve grown up.

There are no grown-ups. We suspect this when we are younger, but can confirm it only once we are the ones writing books and attending parent-teacher conferences. Everyone is winging it, some just do it more confidently.

That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different.