Quotes About Maturity

Control meant not only taking care of myself but living in a much less protected world. And doing that meant growing a tough skin.

We're so preoccupied with protecting children from disappointment and discomfort that we're inadvertently excusing them from growing up.

The British public are not children who need protection from the truth.

Obviously, as you grow up, no one's ever 100 percent proud of every decision that they've made, and that's OK. I think as long as you learn from your mistakes and don't make them over and over again, you're on the right path.

It's much better being an older father. You don't have to go prove to the world and to yourself that you're who you want to be, for better or worse.

I think from here on it's up to me to prove that I'm growing up and that I have other things to say, but in terms of the show it definitely gave me all of the opportunities I've had so far.

I think I don't have as much to prove now.

I think when you're 14 years old, I think you're sort of looking for markers that prove you're an adult and you're independent of your parents.

Potomac School proved to be my first big adjustment - one that helped me with a basic lesson of growing up: learning to get along in whatever world one is deposited.

The character of Samantha Jones proved that women over the age of 40 could be magnificently sexy and attractive to men of all ages.

The hardest moments of your life in your 20s will provide some of the greatest lessons that will come in handy later.

I was foolish and young, before that, viewing the matter closely, I saw what it is to beget children.

Indeed it is not usual for the young to grieve.

anger joined with thine age, is not wisdom.

He's like a child, but without a child's capacity for joy.

Sometimes life makes you older than your age.

Mama was amazing like that; I spent most of my teenage years assuming that she knew nothing about me, and all of my twenties realizing that she knew everything.

How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth

If everyone at twenty realized that half his life was to be lived after forty…

How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long summer days of unreflecting dissipation.

Her body hovered delicately on the last edge of childhood—she was almost eighteen, nearly complete, but the dew was still on her.

Don't let yourself feel worthless: often through life you will really be at your worst when you seem to think best of yourself; and don't worry about losing your personality, as you persist in calling it: at fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon, and when you are my age you will give out, as I do, the genial golden warmth of 4 p.m.

People over forty can seldom be permanently convinced of anything. At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.