“I still can't get over the idea that respectable adults now go to see superhero movies and that such films get reviewed in the 'New Yorker.' Clearly, I am seriously out of step with the times.” StillsIdeasFilmStepsAdultsGet OverSuperheroRespectableNew Yorkers Author:Chris Ware
“I'm terrified of growing up. Once you become an adult, how to you step back from that? It's something that wakes me up at night.” NightStepsGrowing UpGrowingAdultsTerrified Author:Lorde
“Here is what I'm trying to tell you: Adult isn't a noun, it's a verb. It's the act of making correctly those small decisions that fill our day. It is one that you can practice, and that can be done in concrete steps. And if you slip up and have Diet Coke for breakfast, no one busts in and snatches away your Adult card. Just move forward and have milk tomorrow.” IfsTryingDoneMovingDecisionStepsPracticeTomorrowAdultsMoving ForwardCardsDietsBreakfastMilkSlipsConcreteVerbsCokeNounsDiet CokeSmall Decisions Author:Kelly Williams Brown
“My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction.” ChildrenFactsStoriesMotherFictionStepsShareAdultsComplicatedDivorceUsualAttemptingLife StoryFamily HistoryDysfunctionObfuscationStep Children Author:Melissa Gilbert
“I tend to not speak up as much, so saying no is rather difficult for me. The biggest step of being an adult is saying, "This is what I do like. This is what I don't like." Being yourself means certain people aren't going to like that. I'm still figuring it out and taking things day by day.” PeopleMeanStillsCertainSpeakDifficultStepsAdultsBeing YourselfSaying NoFiguring It Author:Selena Gomez
“To tell an adult exactly what steps to take towards his salvation was apt to weaken him. It deprived him of his inalienable right to trial and error which was tonic to the character.” CharacterStepsAdultsSalvationErrorsTrialsDeprivedTrial And Error Author:Frances Gray Patton
“The work of adult life is not easy. As in childhood, each step presents not only new tasks of development but requires a letting go of the techniques that worked before. With each passage some magic must be given up, some cherished illusion of safety and comfortably familiar sense of self must be cast off, to allow for the greater expansion of our distinctiveness.” SelfLife IsGivenEasyStepsGreaterMagicChildhoodDevelopmentLetting GoIllusionAdultsTasksSafetyCastsTechniqueFamiliarPassagesExpansionGiven UpSense Of SelfLife Is Not Easy Book:Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life Source: Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life
“I want to keep working. I want to step away from young adult fiction. I want to do theater periodically - Farragut North reminded me how great it is. I started out in theater. I trained in theater and then I kind of fell into film and TV. I want to work with interesting artists, talented actors, talented directors, and talented scripts. Not necessarily leading roles.” WantKindFilmYoungArtistActorsInterestingFictionStepsRolesTvsDirectorsAdultsTheaterScriptsYoung Adult Author:Max Irons
“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.” WayFactsKidsFunTermStepsLove YouAdultsAnd LoveExcitingIndependenceProtectionTransition Author:Fernando Torres
“We have to step up as adults and try to guide our youth.” TryingStepsYouthAdultsGuidesStep Up Author:Ice Cube
“My children are now adults and just kind of guide them while they allow you to have input in their lives without controlling them the way you did when they were toddlers. These are good steps to use for fathers at each step of their children's lives.” WayKindChildrenUseFatherStepsAdultsGuidesMy ChildrenInputToddler Author:T. D. Jakes
“Next to fat babies, midgets are my favorite things to hold. I love them so much, and I want to help them to do adult things like drive cars, Jet-Ski, and lip-synch. I’m in awe of their little limbs, their large craniums, and their medicine-ball asses. I love the little baby steps they take while shifting their weight from side to side, and the fact that when you knock one over accidentally, he flails like a turtle on its back that can’t get up right away.” WantLittlesFactsHelpingNextSidesStepsCarBabyAdultsWeightBallsMedicineLipsMy FavoriteFatsAssGet UpAweLimbsShiftingJetFavorites ThingsSkisTurtlesMidgetBaby Steps Book:Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea Source: Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
“Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences. I was a child, which meant that I knew a dozen different ways of getting out of our property and into the lane, ways that would not involve walking down our drive.” WayChildrenDifferentSpaceWalksStepsPathWalkingAdultsPropertyDifferent WaysDozenFenceCreepsLanesSpace Between Author:Neil Gaiman
“The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery.” ChildrenPlayRealityStepsStageAdultsMasteryInner ChildChildren PlayingChildren ImaginationPlaytimePlaying Outside Book:Childhood and Society Source: Childhood and Society
“My final advice for young people is to not wait for leadership from adult politicians. Step forward today, because our current leaders are denying the dire reality we are facing. Leadership can come form anywhere.” PeopleRealityTodayFormYoungWaitingLeaderStepsAdvicePoliticianAdultsFinalsCurrentsSteps Forward Author:Kumi Naidoo