Meghan Daum Quotes

I want to be a young dad. By 25 or 26 I want to see myself, like, married or start looking for a family.

I'll probably be still playing a school girl when I'm 60.

Maybe something that's acceptable in your teens or 20s is unacceptable in your 30s or 40s.

What I want is to have people's notion of adulthood no longer be so defined by being a parent. There is some kind of conventional wisdom that you're not really a mature person until you become a parent.

Now there is this whole terror about getting old. Today, that fascination with youth is overrated. What's so special about being young? I just say that because I'm old.

I think there's this thing that happens when you're younger: The things that you want are different than when you're older, and sometimes the person that you liked when you were a teenager is not necessarily the person that you would want to settle down with for the rest of your life once you're older, more mature, and have kids.

One has to do everything at the right time. That includes motherhood.

The problem with growing up is that once you're grown up, the people who aren't grown up aren't fun anymore.

I hate how people say I'm growing up fast.

Some were getting married; some were getting divorced. People were in different places, but you had enough time on this earth to actually get somewhere, and I think that's the exciting thing about being 36 and in your mid-30s. You've been somewhere, and you're going to go somewhere. It's fun; it's exciting.

We'd traveled, we'd been to lots of parties, lots of movies and concerts, we'd slept in. We'd done all those things that people with children seem to miss so passionately. We didn't want those things anymore. We wanted a baby.

You know, I never felt like I was young at the time and obviosly having Mia was absolutely planned. It's only know when I meet people who are my age and single, [with] no kids, that I reflect and say, 'Bloody hell? I really have leaved at a fast pace.'

Hopefully I'll be able to mature one of these days, get serious, and at least have them [kids] pretty fast.

We live a protracted adolescence. At some point you must leave the party.

God knows it's a sign of a really sick mind to see grown people, adults with responsibilities, wearing class rings.

It's rather hard to decide just when people are grown up.

By your 40s, you don't want to be with the cool people; you want to be with your people.

The Eugenic Society . . . is perpetually bewailing the fact that wage-earners breed faster than middle-class people.

Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.

You know, you want to be outrageous when you're young, so all the young people say, "Oooh . . ." Now my tactics are different.

Forty is ... an age at which people have histories and options. At thirty, they had perhaps less history. At fifty, perhaps fewer options.

Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!

The terrible thing in England is if you interview a thousand people, five hundred of them will talk like they're going into a Guy Ritchie movie and the other five hundred will be Mr. Darcy. So we had to find cool, working class kids with no profile who could be John Travolta and James Dean and people like that.

Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood; as the Emperors signed their names in green ink when under age, but when of age, in purple.

We all, one day, realize that we’re not going to be kids forever and we’re going to grow up.