Cesare Pavese Quotes

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.

Welcome to adulthood." Cob said. "Every child finds a day when the realize that adults can be weak and wrong just like everyone else. After that day, you are an adult. Like it or not.

When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.

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

Looking back, I realise I had to grow up and be responsible at a very tender age.

I feel more mature than most people my age.

I don't think I really realized what being an adult and being a real grownup was until I was at least twenty-eight.

Remember what being an adult is: It has nothing to do with money or awards.

I still feel like I haven't grown up.

I think I am an adult.

I'm totally growing up.

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.

The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are children.

It's not a character flaw to become an adult.

In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems.

It took me a long time to make that leap to being a grown-up and responsible adult because I carried on being a child actor into my late twenties. It's OK to be precocious when you're young, but when you're a man of about 27 or 28 and playing a 17-year-old in a TV show, it kind of prolongs your childhood.

We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.

Kids have been let down by adults - we've tried to give them too much, we've tried not to impose discipline. We've tried to make their lives easier and, in doing so, we've taken something away from them. Kids like boundaries, they also like to be pushed, need to learn what failure is all about, need guidance.

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

To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely.

The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

When you start acting as a child, you grow up ahead of your movies.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.

I like being a 10-year-old kid who's in charge.