Quotes About Maturity

I am grown in so many ways, but in front of my parents I am still a child. I am having a hard time throwing off the skin that I pick and peel. I am the only one who can do it, but I can't seem to let myself.

As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.

Claret is the liquor for boys, port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.

No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port, for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.

Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity.

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.

America, for once in its brief and not always glorious history, must try to learn that its own experience is peculiar in world history, that it has been unusually fortunate in coming to maturity in an epoch of untypical peace and prosperity, and that it cannot continue to judge the world by the norm of its own mythology.

Every other science presupposes intelligence as already existing and complete: the philosopher contemplates it in its growth, and as it were represents its history to the mind from its birth to its maturity.

I know, the little kids came with their mommies," Colleen said. "I'm glad we're old enough to come alone." She could still hear Colleen

Consumerism has become a hypnosis that keeps our culture immature, as it keeps us overly focused on ourselves and on material desires, instead of on cultivating deeper soul richness. Corn

You flatter yourself...you're too young for me to take you seriously.

age is a terrible theif

Allowing yourself to stop reading a book - at page 25, 50, or even, less frequently, a few chapters from the end - is a rite of passage in a reader's life, the literary equivalent of a bar mitzvah or a communion, the moment at which you look at yourself and announce: Today I am an adult. I can make my own decisions.

Nate: "And," he said, "boys at twelve aren't exactly slick with the ladies." Ruby: "'Slick with the ladies'?" I said. "Are you twelve?

Welcome to adulthood, she said. It sucks as much as high school.

Once I turned eighteen, I could cut myself off from everyone and finally get what I wanted, which was to be on my own, once and for all. ~Ruby, pg 38

Everything looks different when you're older, not staring up at the world but down upon it.

She stroked my hair and told me I was beautiful, but I was old enough by then to know not to believe it anymore.

You're always a kid around your parents… Unless they're acting like children. Then you don't get the chance.

Growing up means :propelling yourself forward into whatever lies ahead, one turn of the wheel at a time.

If you take nothing else from what I've been through, at least remember this: make your choices well. Because you'll always be accountable for them. That's what being an adult is all about.

Help your puppy get used to being ignored sometimes.

In Woody Allen movies people stood in line for Ingmar Bergman films or Holocaust documentaries talking up media theory to pass the time. At 16 that was my idea of fun. Now that I live in New York I can tell you that people lined up for tickets don't debate theory. They talk about cute guys at the gym or whether or not they live within walking distance of a Krispy Kreme. I was such a young fogy that growing up involved becoming less mature.

It is my childish mind that thinks people are ready to give it just because you need it.