Eric Hoffer Quotes

I feel like I'm 18, with the maturity level of like a 14-year-old. I'm still the same goofball; I'm still in college, as far as I'm concerned.

I have a daughter, she's twenty years old.

Some people do need to grow up, but I don't think I'm there yet. I don't think I'm ready to do grown-up things and be a grown-up.

I'm just a kid - I've got a lot of stuff to do yet.

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.

I don't ever want to grow up. That's boring.

I don't think I'm being forced to grow up too fast; I would rather people treat me like an adult.

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

One that always stings is "Grow up." And it stings most when you have the suspicion that it is justified, that you have just done somethingchildish and you got nailed for it. It's probably been said to me a few times.

I still feel like I haven't grown up.

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.

Having my son made me grow up. I'm keeping my dangers in the movies.

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?

It's kind of a Peter Pan thing: I want to stay a kid. I love it. But I guess you have to grow up someday. Everybody does.

Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.

You've got to grow up sometime.

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

I'll probably be still playing a school girl when I'm 60.

I hope that there's a difference between being childish and childlike and that I'm the latter, if you take my meaning. I often sort of wonder. I don't think I'm a terribly good grown-up; I don't take responsibility easily or well in many areas of life. Finance and stuff like that, I'm absolutely appalling.

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.

I've been able to play a kid up to this point and pretend that I'm not a grown-up - well, at least for two hours a night!

When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.

Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

I feel like I've started to grow up and be more of a woman instead of this crazy girl.

Being a teenager is chaotic because you're kind of coming into your own, but you're not an adult; you're fighting with your parents over responsibilities and freedom.