Quotes About Maturity

the crap game in progress in the middle of the block, the scraps of obscene talk she heard as she passed the poolroom, the tough young boys with their caps on backward who swaggered by, were things that she saw with the eyes of an adult and reacted to from an adult's point of view. It was impossible to know how this street looked to eight-year-old Bub.

None of us is so mature that we cannot be influenced. The question is: Who or what do we want to shape our lives?

None of us is so mature that we cannot be influenced. The question is: Who or what do we want to shape our lives? Even the culture around us will try to 'disciple' us if we have not placed ourselves under the transforming influence of Jesus Christ.

But at this moment he surely knows sorrow No less than the wise and the old. It seems that his eyes have begun to grow narrow, And their brilliant light is now cold.

I look upon a year lived as a year earned; and each year earned means a greater treasury of experience and power laid up against time of need.

The truth was dawning on me of how terrifying it was not to be numb, but to be aware, to have facts, retain facts, be adult.

At eighteen I had no proper understanding of the ways that constituted encroachment.

What chutzpah, to write my life story at forty! Or a bad omen. Perhaps, having written it down, I now feel the life is done. Dora would have made me snap out of it. There are some people just the thought of whom makes us behave better. [Toller]

On vieillit et on réalise qu'il n'y a rien de plus sexy que la gentillesse.

I do not say anything from jealousy.

I'm too old to play hard to get,' Marion said. 'Somebody asks me out, I'm standing with my hat and coat on in case they change their mind!

There are some questions that shouldn't be asked until a person is mature enough to appreciate the answers.

some people need a hard lesson in order to learn and grow—and some people are the hard lesson.

He kissed the spot where her neck and shoulder joined. The first kiss was light and chaste. With the second kiss, he used his teeth to hold her still while the tip of his tongue caressed and tasted her skin. He could feel her heart pounding, feel each breathy pant. Leaving a trail of soft kisses up her neck, he finally whispered in her ear, "You're not too young anymore.

Saetan laughed, genuinely amused. "No, I wouldn't think he would. He's in his prime, virile, living, and well trained in seduction. That twelve-year-old body must be driving him out of his skin.

There's no room in him yet for something as small as anger.

There are some questions that shouldn't be asked until a person is mature enough to appreciate the answers.

At your time of life, it's love that rules the roast: at mine, it's solid, serviceable gold.

They are surprisingly tall--eight-year-olds. They are surprisingly like real people. Of course your own babies are always real to you, they are all there from the word go, but even strangers' children look like proper people by the aged of eight...

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Although I'm only fourteen, I know quite well what I want, I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child, I feel quite indepedent of anyone.

Parents can only give good advice or put them [children] on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Although I'm only fourteen, I know quite well what I want, I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child, I feel quite indepedent of anyone.

Angelo was a grown man, and here was one thing he was quite free to decide for himself, and yet he was ready to let others make up his mind for him...that could only be stupidity.