Molly Shannon Quotes

When I was thirty, and a long time after that, I felt like I had to leave home to do what I had to do. Now, it's just the opposite.

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.

I'm not a kid anymore. And I'm excited for all the amazing things to come.

I'm at the transition place myself, still playing high school girls but moving to a stage when I'm playing older roles and going to the places of stillness and wisdom and knowledge and weight. It's exciting and scary.

The good and bad things are what form us as people... change makes us grow.

I think that between 27 and 37 was a really big learning decade.

It's all about baby steps and trying to figure out how to slowly, elegantly become an adult.

Turning 30, life has definitely changed - it's changed for the better.

I think without struggle, you can't grow as a person - I think you need that in your life.

So many things come with your maturation process. I changed throughout my time with WWE from a kid in his 20s into a man.

I think that everybody kind of changes a lot between the time they're seventeen and when they're twenty-one or twenty-two.

I feel like I have grown up.

I know it's hard to believe that I'm no longer the young 'Zuri' everyone has grown to love, which I truly appreciate, but like every young lady, I'm growing, I'm maturing and finding myself at 16 years old discovering the joys and pains of the world we live in.

Guys like me, we have a different style that makes it hard to break in easily. When I was 18, 19, I felt like I was just a boy, body-wise and mentality-wise. I had to fix everything together.

We all have to go through our own experiences of growing up.

Struggle teaches you a lot of things, and I am happy that I witnessed a roller coaster ride. The journey has improved me as a person and made me more mature.

I broke out of my shell once I graduated from high school and got into college in my first year.

I've come a long way from the area where I grew up in Sheffield. It's been a journey, but I've fully enjoyed it.

In a series of wonderful essays, Evan Handler gives himself up to us - warts and all. To our amusement and bemusement we share in his emotional growth as he struggles to mature. I not only laughed along with him but felt that I too had grown a little along the way. Who could ask for more?

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

Some were getting married; some were getting divorced. People were in different places, but you had enough time on this earth to actually get somewhere, and I think that's the exciting thing about being 36 and in your mid-30s. You've been somewhere, and you're going to go somewhere. It's fun; it's exciting.

Once you move away from home, it's never quite the same again. You expect everything to be just as you left it, and it never is. It's almost the first step into adulthood, realising you've got to make your own way.

The process of growing up is to be valued for what we gain, not for what we lose.

I think with all the odd jobs I ever had, there was some kind of enlightenment but, yes, a lot of pain and suffering that I don't want to relive.

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