MO Quotes

Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.

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 always felt my emancipation into truly being a grown-up was when I had to figure out how to fold up a king-size fitted bottom sheet on my own.

I just feel like I haven't grown up yet. I live on my own and I do grown-up things, but there is something about me that is very youthful.

I do think that despite my best efforts to resist it, I am now a grown-up. It's due to lots of very difficult decisions that you make over a long period of time - about motherhood, wifehood, and work, and all the things that one has to make decisions about.

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'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!

I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.

Because when does anybody really grow up? I mean, I feel more grown up now, more in a place of solidity and peace. But I think a lot of people take on these roles as parents, or husband or wife, and immediately think 'That's it. I'm grown up now. Done.'

I'm one of those people who never really joined the grown-ups.

It's weird: The leader of the Conservative Party in England is two years younger than me, and I still don't really feel like a responsible adult.

I know I felt like I was ready to be an adult long before the rest of the world agreed. I'd already realized that a lot of grown-ups didn't know any more than I did, and some of them were even dumber than I was, and even the ones who were smarter weren't using their smarts for things I necessarily considered worthwhile.

I really don't want to feel like an adult.

I've been sitting at the grown-ups' table my whole life.

I'm a grown man now, I've got a family, I understand responsibility.

Both my kids are above 30 now... grown up enough to take their own decisions.

That's my proudest accomplishment: that I don't feel like a grown-up.

The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.

There are no grown-ups. We suspect this when we are younger, but can confirm it only once we are the ones writing books and attending parent-teacher conferences. Everyone is winging it, some just do it more confidently.

Sometimes grown ups don't act their right old age

Life, just as we first thought, is playing grownup.

Obviously, I'm a little more responsible these days.

You know you're grown up when summer is just a season.

When you are in your 20s and you're not married with kids, you're having fun. But when you're in your 30s and you're not married and don't have kids, you begin to develop a Peter Pan complex. As you grow older, you have more responsibilities and you have to step up to them.

Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock.