Esther Dyson Quotes

I think part of being an adult is leaving the fairytale behind.

I'll never forget when I was 12 years old. I couldn't wait until the day I was 16 and could drive a car. I thought that'd be the end of life's problems. I mean, you can drive! What is there left? And then I turned 16 and realized there were still problems.

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.

You spend your childhood wanting to get out from your house and wanting to get away and out into the real world, and then as adults, we start to learn that things are not what we thought they were.

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

People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences; in fact it was just the opposite.

Welcome to adulthood." Cob said. "Every child finds a day when the realize that adults can be weak and wrong just like everyone else. After that day, you are an adult. Like it or not.

I was a boy, suddenly treated like the men and expected to act like them.

I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment.

The whole dream of having your own place is great, but the reality is having to cook and clean yourself and do the washing and make sure there's milk in the fridge. But you have to grow up some time.

Growing up is mostly the process of having to acknowledge the differences between your world and the whole world.

Adults are only kids grown up

I’ve aged, but I don’t think I’ve grown 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.

One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it was completely different from what you had always believed. (Bone Crossed)

I just feel like all the things that I do in my life just make me feel like a grown-up kid. That's pretty much what I am.

I was an adult when I was supposed to be a kid. So now I'm an adult and I'm acting like a kid.

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

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.

Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up

A Poem from Edna St. Vincent Millay: Grown-up Was it for this I uttered prayers, And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs, That now, domestic as a plate, I should retire at half-past eight?

I think I'm playing grown up because I have kids now. But I don't feel grown up yet.

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.

Has it ever occurred to you that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into adulthood? Usually kicking and screaming?

I'm trying not to be a kid all the time, but it's hard.