Top 100 Adult Life Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Adult Life Quotes from famous people such as Susan Lucci, Jen Lancaster, Aisha Tyler, Chris Borland, Two Chainz, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

For most of my adult life, I drove through Central Park

For most of my adult life, I drove through Central Park every morning going to work.
Susan Lucci
I had been terrified of Halloween my entire adult life. Loved it as a kid, but the minute I got out of college, there were little kids at my door demanding candy, which, No. 1, I couldn’t afford, and, No. 2, if I had candy, it would be mine.
Jen Lancaster
My husband and I met when I was a teenager, and I’ve been with him for more than half of my adult life.
Aisha Tyler
I just thought to myself, ‘What am I doing? Is this how I’m going to live my adult life, banging my head, especially with what I’ve learned and know about the dangers?’
Chris Borland
As I said, I spent most of my adult life thinking I didn’t have a vote, and therefore that what I thought didn’t matter.
Two Chainz
Really, I’ve worked my whole adult life at fiction, to try and write fiction.
Charles Bock
Being born and raised as a Californian, I somewhat ignorantly had taken for granted the diversity and liberal mindset that shaped my childhood and adult life.
Carre Otis
I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around.
David Eagleman
At school, I decided I wanted to be a director and then I went out and spent the rest of my adult life trying to be a director. It was really clear to me. So in that sense I was very lucky.
Stephen Daldry
After I quit the U.S. Ski Team, there was a fair amount of, you know, grief that follows that, and I just wanted to take a year off. And I had a friend that lived in Los Angeles, said I could crash on his couch. And so I just kind of did the first really spontaneous thing I’d done in my young adult life.
Molly Bloom
You get the reality checks during the course of your adult life and your career, and you realize that as good as the money in boxing is, most of the time people most don’t make Ray Leonard or Oscar De La Hoya money, even if you make very good money.
Paulie Malignaggi
Some of the most powerful memories are those when you are very, very young. Adult life is seen through the reflection of complex, rational thought.
Hisham Matar
My maternal grandmother was the longest-lived of my grandparents. She migrated to Australia in her 80s and lived into her 90s. It was great that she got to be part of my adult life.
Nick Earls
Sometimes I wonder if I’m just memorializing my youth when I spent all this time outdoors. I always envisioned my adult life like I’m going to run every day and live in the woods in a cabin if I can – and here I am living in San Francisco and working in a studio.
Tycho
I’d spent my whole adult life considering myself an independent entity, my life filled by work and friends and family. Suddenly I had a male partner, someone I woke up with and went to sleep with every night.
Rebecca Traister
For the vast majority of my adult life, I was a freelance writer, forever scrambling for work that paid an insulting non-amount.
Jen Sincero
It’s been very hard, after being mostly a mom, to develop an adult life of my own. And not being married anymore, I have to come up with challenges.
Danielle Steel
I spent close to a decade as an undercover officer in the CIA and have spent most of my adult life collecting intelligence and protecting sources and methods.
Will Hurd
It was never my intention to be an actor, and I don’t know if I’ll ever call myself an actor because I’ve always said that would be a slap in the face to proper actors, but it’s fun, and thankfully, I’ve had the luxury in my adult life that anything I’ve done has been fun.
Edge
I’ve been vegetarian for virtually all of my adult life, and I do adopt a very strict health regime.
Kate O’Mara
I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being ‘someone’s girlfriend’, and now I am happy being single.
Penelope Cruz
I did 20 years in the Navy. I joined the Navy right out of high school and went through Navy boot camp, went to SEAL training, got done with that, and then showed up at a SEAL team, where I did 20 years. That was pretty much my whole adult life.
Jocko Willink
Most Missourians can’t imagine growing up and spending their adult life without their family.
Mike Parson
I’ve had a family my entire adult life; I started raising kids when I was 21. I suspect that being part of a family has probably informed my life as a writer as much as anything else has.
Amy Bloom
I am comfortable being gay. Most of my adult life, it’s never been a secret. I knew I was gay when I was in high school. I am just fortunate I have lived in two of the most gay-friendly places in the world: New York and London.
Richard Quest
For the first half of my adult life, I was a Democrat.
Alphonso Jackson
I don’t know much about Britain. I’ve been working overseas for most of my adult life. So I’d like to see what sort of problems there really are here. It’s a question of asking, ‘Where are we going, how purposeful are we?’ And see if there’s anything that can be done to find possibilities for change.
Rory Stewart
I’ve had nonstop financial problems my whole adult life. It’s always been a constant balance, year to year: ‘Where’s the time? Where’s the money?’
Lorrie Moore
Most of us enter adult life with great ambitions for how we will start our own ventures, but the harshness of life wears us down. We settle into some job and slowly give in to the illusion that our bosses care about us and our future, that they spend time thinking of our welfare.
Robert Greene
As an American married to an Englishman and living in France, I’ve spent much of my adult life trying to decode the rules of conversation in three countries. Paradoxically, these rules are almost always unspoken.
Pamela Druckerman
Once upon a time, soft toys were for babies. Now they’re taken for granted as a feature of adult life.
Brian Sutton-Smith
I spent the majority of my adult life in a business whe

I spent the majority of my adult life in a business where the object is to make people believe that you believe what you say. I was good at that, right?
Jim Cornette
I’ve been a spy for almost all of my adult life – I don’t like being in the spotlight.
Edward Snowden
When you’ve done something for more than a third of your life, your whole adult life, and then all of a sudden you’re going to have to switch off and say, ‘No more,’ you want to grasp as much of it and enjoy the last few years of it as much as you can. Because you can’t get those years back.
Brian O’Driscoll
I’ve just always rocked the goatee. Maybe a beard for a minute or some thick sideburns, but I’ve only been clean-shaven for, like, two days in my adult life.
Jason Winston George
Wall Street has played a role in everyone’s life, and it has been vilified by everyone, but I think that the average trader didn’t have a sense of what was coming. The culture is so vacuous, it’s possible to come to it straight out of college and never have a real adult life, even if you have the wife and kids.
Douglas Brunt
Cleveland is the place I grew up and lived much of my adult life, so it will always be a part of my soul.
Mark Edwards
I had incorrectly, for all of my adult life until 2008, believed the biggest voting myth that exists – that ex-felons cannot vote.
Two Chainz
I’m happy that the sacrificing, the hard training, the travel, the time being away from the family, is going to stop. So I’m happy; I’m glad about that. But I’m also terrified. Frightened. Because, I mean, in my whole adult life, cycling was the most consistent thing I ever did.
Jens Voigt
I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me.
Lorna Luft
Most of my adult life I had this towering contempt for America.
Robert Crumb
Women are routinely demeaned, dismissed, discouraged and assaulted. Too many women’s careers are stymied or ended because of harassment and abuse. In politics, where I have worked much of my adult life, this behavior is rampant.
Zephyr Teachout
SpongeBob is a kid living an adult life. He has a job. Kids think being a fry cook is a great job.
Stephen Hillenburg
All of the pivotal moments in my adult life are connected to the wrestling business.
Jim Ross
I’ve been a Colt for almost all of my adult life, but I guess in life, and in sports, we all know nothing lasts forever. Times change, circumstances change, and that’s the reality of playing in the NFL.
Peyton Manning
Donald has been institutionalized for most of his adult life, so there is no way to know how he would thrive, or even survive, on his own in the real world.
Mary L. Trump
Sometimes, in my adult life, I have memories of when I was young and really scared of being too close to people.
Christine and the Queens
For most of my adult life, I always had this pain in my gut, but because I had to survive, and I had to pay the rent, I needed the roof over our head and food for us to eat and some clothes.
Maye Musk
I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.
Andrew Wiles
Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don’t have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don’t deny anything, I don’t advocate anything, I just live with it.
Bruce Springsteen
I have spent my adult life working in American intelligence. It has been quite an honor. Generally well resourced. A global mission. No want of issues. And it was a hell of a ride.
Michael Hayden
I’ve spent my entire adult life with the United States as a superpower and one that had no compunction about spending what it took to sustain that position. And it didn’t have to look over its shoulder because our economy was so strong.
Robert M. Gates
All my adult life I have been searching for the right adjective to describe my father’s peculiarly aggressive comic style. I recently settled on ‘defamatory.’
Martin Amis