Quotes about Maturing Process

I was a bit of a late developer, and everyone was saying, 'Whatever you do, don't shave,' and I hadn't really started shaving. I remember rubbing the soot from a kettle on to my bumfluff to make it look more like I had a beard.

Early thirties for women is a very intense time. If you want kids, and you're not in a relationship, there's an urgency there, so they're forced to mature quicker. It's easy for a man in his thirties to be immature - you can have kids into your fifties, whereas women just can't.

I think the teenage sides of myself have informed my adult self.

Being a teenager is chaotic because you're kind of coming into your own, but you're not an adult; you're fighting with your parents over responsibilities and freedom.

A maturing process, and growth, is always painful. You ask any teenager, they will tell you, and it's just like that for the country. We need to grow; we need to evolve.

It was the conundrum of every parent with a boy becoming a young man—loving your child enough to let him make his own decisions and his own mistakes, and not stepping in to rescue him.

I was young those nights, but I was getting over it.

The older you get, the more you learn.

Men can be teenagers until well into their twenties. That is well known

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

I'm making fewer mistakes as I get older.

I got married at 20, and I was not a real mature 20. My first child was born when I was 21.

It doesn't matter who a man's father is. Your parents made a child, but it's up to you to make the man you'll be.

You've got to continue to grow, or you're just like last night's corn bread-stale and dry.

when I seemed most like a child I was learning to be a woman.

What had been (at the beginning) no bigger than a full stop had expanded into a comma, a word, a sentence, a paragraph, a chapter; now it was bursting into more complex developments, becoming, one might say, a book - perhaps an encylopaedia - even a whole language...

And I continued to grow until I was 25 years old.

There are new eras in one's life that are equivalent to youth-are something better than youth.

If high ideals make a young man rude, the sooner he gets rid of them the better

Martin Luther once said, "We are not yet what we shall be but we are growing toward it.

I spent my 30s fixing everything I broke in my 20s.

Instead of being born again, why not just grow up?

It's not a character flaw to become an adult.

When I first came into the league, I followed my parents for everything. Now, I'm really doing stuff on my own.