Dan Byrd Quotes

I'm a late developer. I only moved out of home when I was 30.

There is a point in every young person's life when you realize that the youth that you've progressed through and graduate to some sort of adulthood is equally as messed up as where you're going.

Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child.

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 always connected renting a car with being an adult. If you think about it, it's the last frontier of your youth. You can join the military at 18, drink when you're 21, but you can't rent a car.

As you get older, you have more responsibilities; you have more commitments, more events, kids, you're married now. You still have all the things that you've had, plus you just keep adding.

Adulting is hard.

Graduating from college and starting your life as an adult is a giant transition no matter what.

When you're a kid, you live carefree. You notice things that go on around you, but you live like a kid with no worries until you get to that certain age where trials and tribulations come and you gotta fight and stay on your toes.

I don't see what the point is in growing up.

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

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

I left home to go to college, and then I moved back home. I moved back for three years from 21 to 24.

Many of the things that I have written on have focused, at least a big part of the story, on adolescents. I think that in that period of life, so much happens, and it's the period of life where you're forming into an adult. In certain ways, you're already an adult and in certain ways you're still a kid.

Turning 16 is kind of scary because when you're 16, you go from being a kid and then you can drive and are more of a young adult in a way.

All my friends were in college when I was making 'Superbad.' We were drinking beer and watching movies and eating pizza. It wasn't like I was going to nice restaurants or anything like that, and I lived like a frat guy. Eventually it was time to grow up, be healthy and be responsible. You can't live like a kid forever, you know?

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 was wanting to be a kid at 18 instead of being a young woman.

Being an adult comes with a whole new set of issues.

I lived at home till I was 29.

I don't want to be a grown-up anymore; it's hard!

There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement.

Being a kid is so much more fun than being an adult. I think that's the crux of it. I think men are just less inclined to grow up because it's much more fun being a child.

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.

Now, I'm getting a little older, got more responsibility, I don't need to be depressed.