Quotes About Maturity

There's something about being around a long time that puts stuff in perspective.

What can happen if a young reader picks up a book he/she isn't yet ready for? Questions, maybe. Usually, that child puts down the book and says, 'Boring.' Or, 'I'm not ready for this.' Kids are really good at knowing what they can handle.

There's a poignancy to being with someone older. I think there's a greater appreciation of time and what you have together and what's important, and it can make the little things seem very small. It puts a kind of sharp light mixed with a sort of diffused light on something.

Being 40 and having three kids puts lots of things in perspective and helps me stay grounded.

Putting somebody else's pants on and pretending to be somebody else is occasionally, as you grow older, horrifying.

As a grown adult, if you can't look a woman or look a man in the eye and say, 'I have serious feelings for you' and instead you have to say, 'Do you like me? Check yes or no,' like we're in grade school, that to me is a red flag of maturity as far as a relationship goes.

At the start, when I started playing first-class cricket, I was a flamboyant player and I never used to take responsibility.

I never had much interest in being a child. As a way of being it seemed flat, failed to engage.

It's not a character flaw to become an adult.

I can't be as flip as I once was.

I'm a Capricorn, and they flower late.

High school is something that we have to deal with. It's not a glorified fluffy, fun, prince-and-princess kind of time.

When you've accomplished a certain amount in your career, you're not so focused on your ambitions.

When I first came into the league, I followed my parents for everything. Now, I'm really doing stuff on my own.

I think we've all done things we're not particularly fond of. Everybody goes through it and comes out the other end, and goes on with his life as if it didn't happen.

I like to think I get better with age, but maybe absence makes the heart grow fonder.

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.

If you're an actor, you tend to fool yourself into thinking you're much younger than you are because you're playing parts and behaving like a child all the time.

I'm never one to act a fool. Not at home and not in public.

I feel as though I've fooled the world into thinking I'm an adult and now they're letting me procreate.

My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.

Few footballers at 20 or 21 are the finished article.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

You can't be 16 forever.