Quotes about Maturity And Change

Bubba, in my old day I party on the road with all my friends. Now, I respect my family I respect the world and I don't do anything anymore.

Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.

As long as you think you're green, you'll grow. As soon as you think you're ripe, you'll rot.

We grow, we change, we labor to maturity, to what little wisdom we might ever acquire, but always in the mirror is who we were as well as who we are, a harking back and, yet again, a quiet reckoning.

Of course, I'm older now. I'm in a different place in my life than when I wrote the songs for 'Car Wheels' or 'Essence' or whatever. Different things were going on.

I feel like I'm evolving with my age.

She did not care for children's books in which the children grew up, as what "growing up" entailed (in life as in books) was a swift and inexplicable dwindling of character; out of a clear blue sky the heroes and heroines abandoned their adventures for some dull sweetheart, got married and had families, and generally started acting like a bunch of cows.

We all lose our looks eventually. Better develop your character and interest in life.

She patted Teresita on the head. She was five years older when she rose than when she'd sat down.

People said I've changed so much. Well, Here's the truth. I grew up. I stopped letting people push me around all the time. I learned that you can't always be happy. I accepted reality.

And Ma smiled sadly, He is. Tommy's growed way up - way up so I can't get aholt of 'im sometimes.

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

People say I've changed so much.Well here's the truth, I grew up. I stopped letting people push me around all time. I learned that you can't always be happy. I accepted reality.

At some point in our lives, we realize the things and people we thought we couldn't live without, are just not that important anymore... we grew up

People say I've change so much. Well, here's the truth. I grew up, I stopped letting people push me around all the time. I learned that you can't always be happy, I accept reality.

I recently turned forty-two, a complicated stage of life. You're young, but not very, you're not elderly, but you are a bit old. Neither fish nor fowl. It's the transition from one thing to the other, the real start of deterioration. Sometimes I feel like I want to have aged already, to be an old woman who has resolved all her expectations.

When you have grown old, newness always comes from the inside.

The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

He was thirteen that year, the age when children splinter off and abandon the old loves.

Saya sudah mengulur-ulur waktu menjadi dewasa, dan pikiran tentang kehidupan saya selanjutnya sebagai orang dewasa menaungi saya bagai gumpalan awan gelap yang sekarang mulai pecah dan menurunkan hujan

To be perfectly honest, I think that as I'm growing older, I'm just growing more impatient. I'll be very happy if at some point people say, 'Michael's grown wiser and softer in his old age.' But we'll have to wait and see what my next project is.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

but sometimes you can go along, years even, and not feel like you're growing up at all, and then there's times when you age a ton, like, in a couple 'a seconds, you know?

To build calls for hard work, From the one who looks to tomorrow. To destroy is easy work, For one who wants to return to yesterday, Like a grown person wishing to remain a child.