Emil Zatopek Quotes

I moved back home after graduating from Virginia Tech. And that's when reality hit. I knew I had to do something. I guess it doesn't click when you're that young. I was 19 and had finished college. I got home and had to figure out what I was going to do.

We paid off our debts, we learned some, made friends and returned in 1950 with a larger view of life. I had, however, no home, no income of any kind and no prospects whatsoever.

None of my characters have really had jobs.

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

I kept thinking, I went to college and I have to get a real job.

At seventeen, I knew the end of a dream... I would never be a schoolboy again.

I will never be unemployed.

I think the years leading up to 21 were a bit more fun than 21 and beyond might be.

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.

Twenty is a tough age because it slips past in the middle of so much else - university, gap year, leaving home, getting jobs.

There is that time right around 30 when you think, your twenties have gone by, and now you really are a grown up, and you do have to figure out what you're going to do.

I've always worked in cinemas or cafes to make money because it turns out freelance journalism is quite hard to get into.

Leaving school or college and heading out into the world of work is never easy, even in good times. It's a huge transition as well as a practical challenge.

It's very bizarre to me to now really be a grown-up. I kind of can't believe that I'm there because I certainly don't feel that way a lot of the time.

I don't think young people are prepared for the moment of reckoning at the end of college - if you even go to college - where you have to get off of the hamster wheel and decide, 'Wait, where do I go from here?'

I ordered a decaf coffee the other night, and I was like, 'Holy crap, I'm an adult.'

When I was 19 or 20 years old, I wasn't making a living wrestling. I needed a full-time income.

Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed.

Most people are really fighting to not be adults. And, when it happens, it's a big transition. And a lot of that is just awful. It's awful to have to get a job and really be responsible for other people. And it is funny, too. Like, we're all kind of little idiot kids trying to act like we know what we are doing.

All the boys were grown up and done for by this time; so it is scarcely worth while saying anything more about them. You may see the twins and Nibs and Curly any day going to an office, each carrying a little bag and an umbrella. Michael is an engine driver. Slightly married a lady of title, and so he became a lord. You see that judge in a wig coming out at the iron door? That used to be Tootles. The bearded man who doesn't know any story to tell his children was once John.

Adulthood it a glacier encroaching quietly on youth. When it arrives, the stamp of childhood suddenly freezes, capturing us for good in the image of our last act, the pose we struck when the ice of age set in.

For many of us, the curtain had just come down on childhood.

There's a great place to go when you're broke--to work!

You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.

I've apparently been the victim of growing up, which apparently happens to all of us at one point or another