Ryan Sheckler Quotes

I'm ready to live on my own. It's a really big step, but I'm ready.

I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.

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

I have a fresh start, now that I've turned 18, which feels like such a symbolic age of independence and hopefully a new phase of my life.

When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.

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

The nicest thing about coming of age is that I can do whatever I like.

I've been a protected child, but I moved out for further studies when I was 16, and I have travelled quite a bit by myself.

Coming to the Waratahs was the first time I felt I gained some independence. I was telling my parents I had to go out on my own, and learn and grow, and if I made mistakes, then so be it.

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.

After all, we are not children. It's time we planned our life.

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!

I needed to grow up and do things all adults do. It was time to stop having everything spoon fed to me. It was about being independent.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

You have to eventually grow up and take control of your life, which is very hard to do.

By the time I turned 18, I moved into a little chalet of my own and felt very grown-up.

I told my parents, 'You've taken care of me all my life, helped me through college. You've been awesome, but now it's my turn to be my own man.'

As you grow and mature, you will want and will earn more freedom to live your lives your way and to make your own choices. This you should do.

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

Actually going to the supermarket to get my own groceries was a revelation. I'd never had to fill the fridge before, do my laundry, put petrol in my car. It was scary - but there was a kind of joy about it, too.

I lived at home until I was 23.

I have a lot more responsibilities, I guess you could say. I have a lot more responsibilities than a lot of people my age.

I learned so much because I moved out of my mom's when I was 18. It teaches you to be responsible, to be independent.

There comes a time when you have to grow up and start thinking for yourself.

Greenpoint was where I had my first apartment on my own without roommates or sleeping on someone's couch. It was a really important time for me.