Quotes About Maturity

Of late she'd become impatient with the inexplicit needs of boys and men and their acting so rashly on what they could not fathom and surely could not articulate. - Coal Black Horse Chapter 1

I'm getting older everyday, you know. I'm not like a fine wine that just gets better with age. I'm more like a good strong cheese. I can only be aged so long before I start to stink.

If I am just as stupid when I am twenty as I was when I was two, if I am just as stupid when I am a hundred as I was when I was fifty, then I am not doing my job. I am occupying space and time to no purpose, and I might just as well have been a lump of rock.

Your first step in taking responsibility is to quit blaming others and quit blaming the world.

And what being an adult means is knowing what you have to do and doing it, even though you may not feel like doing it.

It's like planting a tree. You water it for years, and then one day it doesn't need you anymore. Its roots are implanted deep enough. Then the tree provides shade for your enjoyment. Mike

would say that life is the best teacher of all.

It's like planting a tree. You water it for years, and then one day it doesn't need you anymore. Its roots are implanted deep enough. Then the tree provides shade for your enjoyment.

Anne laughed and sighed. She felt very old and mature and wise — which showed how young she was.

All life lessons are not learned at college,' she thought. 'Life teaches them everywhere.

One can't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.

The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.

Oh, she thought, how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!

Words aren't made — they grow,' said Anne.

That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.

Ruby Gillis thinks of nothing but young men, and the older she gets the worse she is. Young men are all very well in their place, but it doesn't do to drag them into everything, does it?

You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.

If you've brains it's better than beauty - brains last, beauty doesn't.

Most young men are such bores. They haven't lived long enough to learn that they are not the wonders to the world they are to their mothers.

It's fun to be almost grown up in some ways, but it's not the kind of fun I expected, Marilla. There's so much to learn and do and think that there isn't time for big words.

It's rather hard to decide just when people are grown up,' laughed Anne. 'That's a true word, dearie. Some are grown up when they're born, and others ain't grown up when they're eighty, believe me. That same Mrs. Roderick I was speaking of never grew up. She was as foolish when she was hundred as when she was ten.' 'Perhaps that was why she lived so long,' suggested Anne.

I'm sorry, and a little dissatisfied as well. Miss Stacy told me long ago that by the time I was twenty my character would be formed, for good or evil. I don't feel that it's what it should be. It's full of flaws.' 'So's everybody's,' said Aunt Jamesina cheerfully. 'Mine's cracked in a hundred places. Your Miss Stacy likely meant that when you are twenty your character would have got its permanent bent in one direction or 'tother, and would go on developing in that line.

Oh, WHY can't boys be just sensible!

hat's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.