Don Henley Quotes

Kids don't shuffle along in unison on the road to maturity. They slouch toward adulthood at an uneven, highly individual pace.

It's all about baby steps and trying to figure out how to slowly, elegantly become an adult.

Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

When I was 21 I think I thought I was 31. I was always kind of doing the right thing, and it wasn't until my late twenties that I became just a completely wild asshole. So I should've had that out of my system already and I was too busy being a grown-up.

A boy has two jobs. One is just being a boy. The other is growing up to be a man.

I still feel like a kid sometimes myself so hard to believe that I'm a mom. Now I'm an adult! It only took 38 years!

I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.

Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults.

I'm ready to live on my own. It's a really big step, but I'm ready.

By the time I was, you know, 16 years old, I had done a lot of growing up.

We all have to go through our own experiences of growing up.

Guys play characters that won't grow up and something catastrophic happens and they have to grow up to save the day - that's pretty much what today's comedy is about.

I used to be a child. It came naturally to me. I was an adult for a time, too. That came less naturally.

Growing up is hard, love. Otherwise everyone would do it.

For the past couple of years I was doing the party thing - going out a lot. But now I've turned 25, I feel I'm an adult.

I've apparently been the victim of growing up, which apparently happens to all of us at one point or another. It's been going on for quite some time now, without me knowing it. I've found that growing up can mean a lot of things. For me, it doesn't mean I should become somebody completely new and stop loving the things I used to love. It means I've just added more things to my list.

Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.

I kind of grew up and started maturing.

Growing old is compulsory - growing up is optional.

I think Buffy was a grown-up. One of the amazing things about the show was that I was able to grow with her. Yes, she started in high school, and then she went to college, and then essentially she was a mother to all the other Slayers, so I always felt like Buffy was a grown-up.

When you become an adult you just make that transition and you're right... it's fun and exciting to be an adult and exciting to have independence, but once you're out from under the cover of your family's protection and love, you sort of have to take a step back and come to terms with the fact that you won't really ever have that again in the same way. You'll never be a kid again.

The struggle to be considered a grown-up begins, I believe, shortly after birth.

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.

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.