Quotes About Maturity

The child, like Greene himself, is a traveller; the adult has arrived:

To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.

Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.

I'm 31 now. I think I'm beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

When a girl turns down your advances, the polite thing to do is just move on.

I'm beginning to grow into who I thought I might be.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Mi sono convinto che l'uomo, salvo particolarissimi casi, non deve occuparsi apertamente di politica prima di avere trent'anni. Prima di quell'età si forma in lui solo una base generale, dalla quale egli poi esamina i concreti problemi politici e stabilisce definitivamente i suoi rapporti con essi. Solo dopo aver raggiunto una simile visione basilare del mondo, che l'uomo maturo ha, potrà partecipare alla direzione politica della collettività

Intelligence is no substitute for wisdom. Live long enough to get wise, eh?

I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone.

The problem is there's still a big kid inside me who likes to have fun. I am passionate about my cricket and I love my family, but I'm also a kid and maybe I need to grow up... And maybe I don't.

There are certain times when I was younger, I was occasionally more passive.

I think it's our job to write about what we're going through at the moment, and being 41, I'm not going to write about the same things I wrote about at 20. I don't think artists should be farmed out to pasture just because they're in rock n' roll.

For whatever reason, I decided: 'I'm 18, I'm a man, I'm going to grow a moustache' - and it was pathetic for years - it was awful.

If you get serious about yourself as you get old, you are pathetic.

You set paths for yourself, but as you get older, things change.

I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it's up to me to choose to develop them.

What separates old from the young is experience and patience.

The difference between rearing a child in your 20s and one in your 50s is one of patience.

I have learnt to be even more patient.

I am no longer young, so I really have to be patient with my body.

Fatherhood has changed me, I've become more patient.