Tom Bodett Quotes

Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.

There's a shift and a change in how we've matured to becoming adults. 'Elevator Girl' represents our maturity.

I think 18 is a good age to make your debut.

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.

I'm not sure I'm adult yet.

When you get to be 23, 24 or 25, you start to freeze up and become an adult.

A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does.

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

When you're 16 and when you're 17, you're kind of walking that fine line of being an adult and legally being able to look out for yourself, while being able to look out for yourself and being treated as a child.

You don't become a real man until you're 35 or 40.

The definition of adulthood is that you want to sleep.

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

I wanted to be grown up the minute I could.

For me, the end of childhood came when the number of candles on my birthday cake no longer reflected my age, around 19 or 20. From then on, each candle came to represent an entire decade.

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.

I'm totally growing up.

I'm 18 and I like it!

I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.

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

You think that adulthood will hit and you'll suddenly be more capable. But that doesn't happen, ever, does it?

You've got to grow up sometime.

Fifteen is such a weird age to be. Nobody treats you like an adult, but you desperately want to be one. You still have these childlike aspects, but you're just kind of coming into the world.

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.

I started out myself rather late you see, I was 18.

Once I got my driver's license everybody treated me like I was an adult.