Quotes About Maturity

Most people will tell you growing up means you stop believing in Halloween things - I'm telling you the reverse. You start to grow up when you understand that the stuff that scares you is part of the air you breathe.

At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.

Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

Radar is too long in the tooth for fine detail.

Ya?lanarak de?il ya?ayarak tecrübe kazan?l?r; zaman insanlar? de?il, armutlar? olgunla?t?r?r

Öyle bir ya?tayd?m ve öyle bir mizaçtayd?m ve çocuklu?umda o kadar az oyun oynam??t?m ve aldatmas?n? o kadar az ö?renmi?tim ki, yalan bana suçlar?n en a??r? gibi geliyordu; ve bir yalan söylendi?i zaman insanlar?n de?il, e?yan?n bile buna nas?l tahammül etti?ine ?a??yordum.

Before you leave here, Sir, you're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.

I don't want to spend this last half [of life] trying to recapture the first. I want to stretch and grow and do bold things ... and question what I've been taught and generally alarm people with my broadmindedness.

The older I got the less I cared about anything.

They say eyes clear with age.

It's funny: one starts off thinking one is shrinkingly sensitive & intelligent & always one down & all the rest of it: then at thirty one finds one is a great clumping brute, incapable of appreciating anything finer than a kiss or a kick, roaring our one's hypocrisies at the top of one's voice, thick skinned as a rhino. At least I do.

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

Children are not less intelligent than adults; what they are is less informed.

you can't keep children in the nursery forever. If you do, they never become grown-ups, but they're not really children either. They are just pets.

A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die!

A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!

Stop worrying about growing old. And think about growing up.

As time passes and the relationship grows,

I was already at an age when putting off anything was a bad idea.

IT helps to think of the whole development thing as a process; you go in looking like a girl, and you'll come out at the other end looking like a woman. The stuff in the middle is just what everyone goes through, it;s almost never much fun.

You're very old, aren't you?" "Just as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.

Is this what it means to become an adult? Giving up the beliefs which reassure us, which help us to survive?

Le problème, voyez-vous, c'est que quand on est grand, on oublie, on oublie presque tout, et on oublie surtout qu'on a été enfant.

Patience was what was important, not just the destination, but the journey. The goal is not just being full grown, but learning to grow.