Quotes About Maturity

Life does not wait for any of us to grow up.

We cannot put old heads on young shoulders.

For the first time in my life, I realized that a man doesn't need to yell to be heard. A man doesn't have to throw a punch to make a point. And a man who is comfortable in his own skin doesn't need to constantly prove his worth to the world.

The heads of strong old age are beautiful / Beyond all grace of youth

We're adults. I might be a little more of an adult if you're counting years but I bet I have a lower IQ, so that puts us pretty much even.

big! You're growing

I don't get the big deal myself. If you can die for your country at eighteen, why not have a beer?

Despite Eleanor being twelve to her husband's twenty-eight, they had begun sleeping together straight away

If people really grew up, there would be no crime, no divorce, no Civil War reenactors....it's not like you think it will be, that one day you'll wake up and realize that you've got things figured out. You never figure it out. Ever. - Isabel Spellman attempting to explain growing up to her sister Rae

My love for him had never gone away but only changed, growing deeper like wine fermenting or pickles curing. It bore into me with the pervasiveness of water working its way to the center of a mountain.

Gone were my girlish ideas about romantic love and my later ideas about sexual love. From Yi, I learned to appreciate deep-heart love.

Man becomes wiser and more mature through life experience. The same can be said of tea.

the four phases of a woman's life are the same

The woman I was seems hopelessly naive. I envy her.

He's almost an adult. We have to save ourselves sometimes, Maggie. You should know that.

As a boy, he had dreamed of taking a man's place among men; and, as a boy, had deemed himself well fit to do so. Now, amid the grizzled, battle-wise warriors, his strength seemed feeble, his knowledge clouded.

Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost.

The front-buttoned jacket was the first sign of independence, the first very visible symbol of growing up.

Fours, Fives, and Sixes all wore jackets that fastened down the back so that they would have to help each other dress and would learn interdependence. The front-buttoned jacket was the first sign of independence, the first very visible symbol of growing up.

Age is a meaningless commodity in most instances.

The children all received their bicycles at Nine; they were not allowed to ride bicycles before then.

One foot in front of the other, wasn't that the grownup way of solving problems? Surely he ought to be a grownup at his age.

When your young life offered its first disaster, naturally it loomed large. After you'd survived dozens, you basically just told the next one to take a number and get in line.

Some men just aren't cut for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.