Quotes about Maturing Process

Growth is what we all need and what we all strive for because we want to get better and better and better each day.

Katie is like my calendar, watching her grow and change. She is growing up so fast, learning to have opinions of her own, learning that I don't have the answers to everything. And the moment a child begins to understand that, you know you're in trouble.

Childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child

I'm not sure what I want to do when I grow up, or if I'm sure I ever want to grow up. I'm sure there are people that wish I would, but you know, my mom will get over it.

Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.

As you get older, you're always maturing, you're always learning something new about yourself.

I'm not here to - as a parent, I believe we are specifically here to help our children mature in the way that they can take on their own lives. I'm not here to live their lives for them. That's not my job.

I arrived in Milan when I was 18. But my time in Italian football helped me to mature.

My mother was there every day of the production. You know what? My mother and I are so close, she really understands the fact that I am 18 and I am maturing. I guess I am not your average 18 year-old.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

My interest in self-help began when I was a child in the Seventies. My mum had a book she would consult regularly: 'Passages' by Gail Sheehy, which deals with the challenging stages of growing up.

Mother Nature is wonderful. Children get too old for piggy-back rides just about the same time they get too heavy for them.

Growing up, I stayed in a child's place. My father was murdered when I was 20. I was a model and never had a real job and my parents took care of me.

During a career there are some steps we need to take growing up, that's natural.

For the first fourteen years for a rod they do whine, For the next as a pearl in the world they do shine, For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve, For the next matrons or drudges they serve, For the next doth crave a staff for a stay, For the next a bier to fetch them away.

For some of you, those things have already happened.

The average teenager still has all the faults his parents outgrew.

People mature at different stages and I feel I'm learning a lot.

I guess growing up, it was pretty much a normal life, as I got older I used to get into some fights but nothing unusual.

Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.

Whether it was work, marriage, or family, I've always been a late bloomer.

Me going to college, I think, was a great idea. I went only for two years, but I was able to mature both on and off the court.

There were three terrible ages of childhood - zero to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

Children use the fist until they are of age to use the brain.