Quotes about Maturing Process

Experience is the only teacher," Hey-Soos says. "Even if I could have told you, it would have been a lecture. Why do you think kids don't listen to their parents, or people don't leave churches and do what the preacher tells them?

Most males do not mature, they simply grow taller.

I was actually not some sort of a child prodigy by any stretch.

Sometimes when you're young and a little more immature, you can overdo things or not really have your legs under you.

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

E il principe notò subito che la persona che tornava a casa era completamente diversa da quella che era partita. Adesso sua figlia era una donna, non più una ragazzina. Aveva amato e vissuto e lavorato, ed era cresciuta. E la bellezza dell'Africa le si era insinuata nell'anima.

I think everything I do is my early work. I can't wait to get on to the later stuff.

When my son first started to take the subway, my husband and I used to follow him to make sure he was all right, and then we had to stop following him and let him do it by himself.

I think I'm finally growing up - and about time.

I'm one of those people that makes a better adult than I did a kid.

The growing-up-fast part weirdly happened between the ages of 15 and 22.

A child learns by growing, an adult learns to grow.

She was thinking how odd it was that children grew up so quickly and grown-up people remained much the same. It was only yesterday (or so it seemed to Dorcas) that she had carried Simon upstairs in her arms. Now he could run up the stairs much faster than she could. Tomorrow, or soon after, he would have grown too big to play bears—he would not need her anymore.

I used to be a dusty little child.

I realized I was the one doing all the training, earning the money, and my parents were living off of me.

immature, Arlo!" said Andrea. "I bet their daughter's

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.

Now I know: adulthood is a line drawn in the sand. At some point, your child will be standing on the other side.

You grow older, you evolve.

As I've gotten older, projects are more interesting and dynamic. My thinking and acting has evolved over the years.

Sometimes players just take a little while to develop.

I feel as I were disintegrating and "growing up", whatever that means, simultaneously.

Having babies is fun, but babies grow up into people.

When you live in New York or any big city, it is easy to fail at growing up. The city is designed to keep you in a state of perpetual adolescence.