Quotes About Maturity

gags old before they were told

gazing upon him with eyes that were too old for her face.

Quayle himself was a surprisingly elegant man of sixty winters or more. (One might equally have said "sixty springs" or "sixty summers," but that would have been inaccurate, for Quayle was a man of bare trees and frozen water.)

For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.

Part of maturing is knowing the difference between striving and actively moving in the unforced rhythms of grace. Fruitfulness all flows from a happy, ecstatic impulse toward our divine calling.

What I wonder is, maybe the world is growing older. Less all alive. Or is it only my growing older?" "Everybody always wonders that. I don't think, really, anyone could feel the world grow older. Its life is far too long for that." She took a black man of Alice's. "What maybe you learn as you grow older is that the world is old—very old. When you're young, the world seems young. That's all.

What maybe you learn as you grow older is that the world is old—very old. When you're young, the world seems young. That's all.

It can happen to anybody, getting all hung up on some twenty-year-old quiff. Like the little dog in the freight yard, and the train nips off the end of his tail and he yelps and spins around and it cuts off his head. Never lose your head over a piece of tail.

Being an adult means accepting those situations where no action is possible.

This was not some pretty little girl, coyly flirtatious, delicately stimulated. This was the mature female of the species, vivid, handsome and strong demanding that all the life within her be matched. Her instinct would detect any hedging, any dishonesty, any less than complete response to her - and then she would be gone for good.

Not perfection as a final goal, but the ever-enduring process of perfecting, maturing, refining is the aim of living.

People are looking to have more meaning in their lives. It is a sign the technology community is coming of age.

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence - and just as adventurous.

You have a huge amount of confidence when you're younger, which slowly ebbs away for the rest of your life. You think: 'No problem. I can do that. Why shouldn't I do it?'

I have an old soul. I don't know any real-life lingo, so I have to take it from movies.

You're not a little kid anymore. You need to make friends, get out of the house, and live your life.

You don't go through life, you grow through life

Once you have done with school, you realise that it is just a smaller version of life, and really I have felt that I should have been an adult since I was aged about five.

I would be a horrible girlfriend at this point in my life, because I'm both needy and unavailable.

I am older now, and sleep less, and have seen most of what there is to see and am not very much impressed any more, I suppose, by anything.

To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents.

There is a point in your life when you realize that you have written enough destructors.

Wisdom is not to be obtained from textbooks, but must be coined out of human experience in the flame of life.