Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

We all have to grow up some time.

The struggle to be considered a grown-up begins, I believe, shortly after birth.

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

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

There's a shift and a change in how we've matured to becoming adults. 'Elevator Girl' represents our maturity.

Growing up means leaving home and becoming a self supporting adult. I think this the hardest task any human being hast to face.

The definition of adulthood is that you want to sleep.

Starting at about, I guess, forever, I've always looked forward to getting older. When I was 14, I couldn't wait to be 16 and get a driver's license.

I'm totally growing up.

I'm 18 and I like it!

You've got to grow up sometime.

Thirty-two is the age we turn into actual adults.

It's not that I don't respect my parents' authority or appreciate all that they did for me, but when I was 18 I was able to move out, and I was out. I feel like a different person since then; I mean, it's obviously a big turning point in life. I feel like I've established myself, and I'm a smarter and more mature for it.

I didn't put out this album because I wanted everybody to know I was grown up. I'm 21 and that's not grown up.

You must remember that anyone under 30 - especially a ballplayer - is an adolescent. I never got close to being an adult until I was 32. Even though I was married and had a son at 20, I was a kid at 32, living at home with my parents. Sure, I was a manager then. That doesn't mean you're grown up.

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

When you're 16 and when you're 17, you're kind of walking that fine line of being an adult and legally being able to look out for yourself, while being able to look out for yourself and being treated as a child.

Childhood and adolescence are nothing but milestones: You grow taller, advance to new grades, and get your period, your driver's license, and your diploma. Then, in your 20s and 30s, you romance potential partners, find jobs, and learn to support yourself.

The problem with growing up is that once you're grown up, the people who aren't grown up aren't fun anymore.

I have met a lot of guys in their 40s who have the maturity of a 15 - year-old and men in their 20s who have older sensibilities. They just need to live in their own apartment. That's kind of a deal breaker.

I've always been a late bloomer in some ways, and extremely precocious in other ways. When I was twenty I was living in New York and working a job and could barely bother to be a college student and had my own apartment, but I couldn't possibly get married before I was thirty-nine.

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 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.

Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you're a grownup, but it's not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.