Coming Age Quotes

Coming age is the age of knowledge. However rich, poor or powerful a country be, if they want to move ahead, only knowledge can lead them to that path.

The age of eighteen, far more than the age of twenty-one, has been and is the age of maturity in America—and never more than now.

The Goonies' I love. 'Heathers' too.

Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?

Childhood and adolescence are nothing but milestones: You grow taller, advance to new grades, and get your period, your driver's license, and your diploma. Then, in your 20s and 30s, you romance potential partners, find jobs, and learn to support yourself.

Thirty-two is the age we turn into actual adults.

In ancient African cultures, a young man was not considered a full member of the tribe, an elder, a man. He couldn't marry and he couldn't own land until he had killed a lion. It was symbolic.

It took me a long time to grow up.

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

Perhaps people don't come into their true maturity until a parent dies.

Part of my ancestry is Cherokee. And in that tradition, you become an adult when you're 52.

I love John Hughes films.

I'm totally growing up.

The '20s are a very interesting period to me.

'The Breakfast Club' was one of my favorites.

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

I like John Hughes movies.

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

That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain.

As Jane Austen might have put it: It is a truth universally acknowledged that young protagonists in search of adventure must ditch their parents.

What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?

What war has always been is a puberty ceremony.