Quotes About Maturity

Professor Obama has at least talked to us like we're adults.

I was 28 years old playing a 16-year-old. I just kept my mouth shut. I never talked about it.

Medicine really matured me as a person because, as a physician, you're obviously dealing with life and death issues, issues much more serious than what we're talking about in entertainment. You can't get more serious than life and death. And if you can handle that, you can handle anything.

As you get a little older and start drinking a bit more coffee, you start talking about big-boy things a little more.

Man, I'm 31, talking like I'm 60. I really do feel in control.

Everyone talks about new love all the time, but there's so much to draw from when you've been in a longer relationship. It makes me stick my chest out a little bit. It's like, 'I know what you've been through, but you don't know what it's like over here.'

Everyone talks about the big three-oh with dread - but it's exciting. It feels like life is much more put together. Everyone's like, 'Wouldn't you like to be 20 again?' But no way.

As I got older, I realised fake tan was rather messy and I wanted to look cleaner, classier and more demure.

Our aim, during our Presidency in the next six months will be to lead this challenge, to show that Europe can function in a mature and responsible way, to start delivering tangible results that show we are taking people's concerns seriously.

I tried to play Piazzolla's 'Grand Tango' at 20 and failed miserably. You need a little experience of life for tango.

I keep the tantrums to a minimum because people don't want to see that.

What happens when you're a child professional is that you have to be, well, professional. You're taught not to have tantrums, to always people-please.

It is a fact that it takes experience before one can realize what is a catastrophe and what is not. Children have little faculty of distinguishing between disaster and the ordinary course of their lives.

Thomas Merton says, "We do not want to be beginners. But let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything else but beginners, all our life!"2

The truth is that there are no "masters" in the spiritual life. Mature and wise teachers, yes. But fundamentally we are all beginners receiving and giving on our knees before God and with open hands before one another. In this business no one "lords it over" another. Pay

The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.

Let not the eyes grow dim, look not back but forward; the soul must uphold itself like the sun. Let us labour to make the heart grow larger as we become older, as the spreading oak gives more shelter. That we could but take to the soul some of the greatness and the beauty of the summer!

There's the other secret of love. Our hearts don't age at the same rate as the rest of our bodies. You can be old on the inside long before you're old outside.

Hi, Keitu. Look how you've grown," I say, which is stupid because it's the last thing kids want to hear.

Directors who turn into big babies and shut out criticism stop learning.

In order for a child to learn how to handle responsibility, he must be given responsibility to handle.

I always think that I'm still this 13-year old boy that doesn't really know how to be an adult, pretending to live my life, taking notes for when I'll really have to do it.

At some point, you're no longer growing up, you're aging. But no one can pinpoint that moment exactly.

We all have a road to walk. The foolish walk blindly. The intelligent navigate it. The good repair it as they go. CHARLES JAMES'S DIARY