Quotes About Maturity

Anthony to James about Jeremy : "Need I remind you this is a seventeen-year-old boy we're talking about?" "Need I remind you what you were like when you were seventeen?" James countered.

Language study is a route to maturity. Indeed, in language study as in life, if a person is the same today as he was yesterday, it would be an act of mercy to pronounce him dead and to place him in a coffin, rather than in a classroom.

A boy of fifteen who is not a democrat is good for nothing, and he is no better who is a democrat at twenty.

Autumn ripens in the summer's ray.

The promise of learning is a delusion.... Tomorrow would alter the sense of what had already been learned, that the learning process is extended in this way, so that from this standpoint none of us ever graduates from college, for time is an emulsion, and probably thinking not to grow up is the brightest kind of maturity for us, right now at any rate.

Tomorrow would alter the sense of what had already been learned, That the learning process is extended in this way, so that from this standpoint None of us ever graduates from college, For time is an emulsion, and probably thinking not to grow up Is the brightest kind of maturity for us, right now at any rate.

A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.

Yes, this is what I thought adulthood would be, a kind of long indian summer, a state of tranquility, of calm incuriousness, with nothing left of the barely bearable raw immediacy of childhood, all the things solved that had puzzled me when I was small, all mysteries settled, all questions answered, and the moments dripping away, unnoticed almost, drip by golden drip, toward the final, almost unnoticed, quietus.

Falling in love at five or six, although rare, is the same as falling in love at fifty. One may interpret one's feelings differently, the outcome may be different, but the state of feeling and of being is the same.

Physical growth is a function of time. No two-year-old child has ever been six feet tall. Intellectual growth is a function of learning. Spiritual growth is neither a function of time or learning, but it is a function of obedience.

"Older men are much more attractive than young boys," Petronella said. "You're trying to cheer me up. Older men are more attractive because they have more money."

When Max Planck began studying physics at the University of Munich in 1874, his teacher, Philipp von Jolly, warned him that it was already a mature field, with little more to learn.

Wise men never grow up; indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth.

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things.

To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: 'To rise above little things'.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.

The Church is our mother, inasmuch as God has committed to her the kind office of bringing us up in the faith until we attain full age.

It is also to be noticed, that   the old man is distinguished by his works, as a tree is by its fruits.  

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.

They were the clothes of a child, and he was a child no longer.

En cada adulto mora el niño que fue, y en cada niño espera el adulto que será.

I could not live without seasons, for in seasons are reflected in the rhythms of our existence: of birth and maturity, or decline and decay, yet always with the promise of renewal for those who remain.

Anna shook her head and, for a moment, she seemed much older than before. She may have been a girl in form, but she had existed for far longer than her appearance suggested, and in that dark place she had learned wisdom and tolerance and forgiveness.