legal adulthood Quotes

I'm going to lower the drinking age to eighteen. If you're old enough to die in Iraq, you're old enough to drink.

I remember being in jail, like, 'Man, I'm not old enough.' And then I thought, 'I just turned 18.' I had just turned old enough to be in big people jail.

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 mental capacity of a person to make reasonable contracts, is the only criterion, by which to determine his legal capacity to make obligatory contracts. And his mental capacity to make reasonable contracts is certainly not to be determined by the fact that he is, or is not, twenty-one years of age.

When you're 18, you escape if you want to. Sixteen, you're still really depending on the people around you. You can't drive, and you can't support yourself. You can't legally be responsible for yourself.

I hate to tell you how old I am, but I reached the age of consent 75,000 consents ago.

Since 17-year-olds can join the military, there is no way our legislature is going to tell [them] they’re old enough to risk their lives for our country but they’re too young to get married.

And although I broke a lot of laws as a teenager, I straightened out immediately upon turning eighteen, when I realized the state had a legal right to execute me.

Yeah, and by the way? How much does it suck that I'm an adult if I kill somebody, and not if I want a beer?

How long is a girl a child? She is a child, and then one morning you wake up she's a woman, and a dozen different people of whom you recognize none.

Congratulations you're 18!... On a list of 20 people I'm going to kill.

I think 18 is a good age to make your debut.

Even when all the paperwork-a marriage license, a notarized deed, two birth certificates, and seven years of tax returns-clearly indicates you're an adult, but all the same, there you are, clutching the phone and thanking God that you're still somebody's daughter.

The poverty line is like the age of consent: if you find yourself parsing exactly where it is, you’ve probably already done something very, very wrong.