Quotes About Maturity

You're old for so much longer than you're young, she thinks. Really it hardly seems fair.

she was old, she would have total confidence, finally. But look at her: still uncertain.

When does the time come when you stand in front of your grown-up woman's mirror and feel contentment for what you see? Ever?

I am a grown woman-- mostly-- and I can guzzle champagne with whomever I choose.

That meant that Nancy was the grown-up, the one who got to decide everything. And it meant that Bean was the little, boring, poopy baby who didn't get to decide anything.

When we lose our innocence - when we start feeling the weight of the atmosphere and learn that there's death in the pot - we take leave of our sense.

she had discovered that ageing and what they called maturity were myths, that all the years did was disqualify you from various pleasures, one by one.

One day, when you are grown up, you suddenly become aware that something has gone

How do you become an adult in a society that doesn't ask for sacrifice? How do you become a man in a world that doesn't require courage? Those

The idea that we can enjoy the benefits of society while owing nothing in return is literally infantile. Only children owe nothing.

How do you become an adult in a society that doesn't ask for sacrifice?

Al día de hoy, al comprender la habilidad del mundo para presionarme hasta que haga lo que no hago, he madurado. Con qué actitud desempeño mi papel, eso depende únicamente de mi.

There's a huge difference between being childlike and being childish. When we embrace joy and look at the world with fresh eyes we're being childlike. When we demand instant gratification and a guarantee that everything will be ok, we're only being childish.

I was sitting in the backseat with my brother, Luke, a seven-year-old complexity. Sometimes he acted as if he were two, and sometimes twelve. He was full of questions and energy and opinions except when you wanted him to have any of those things.

I'd not want to answer for the lives of other men; not at seventeen, by God's Grace.

Who is old enough to ask, is old enough to know.

I'm at the age where i don't have to kiss arse or play nice!

Conforme oramos y leemos la Biblia y nos conectamos con lo que dice, ¡la mente de Dios y la nuestra empiezan a conectarse! No es sólo una cosa invisible; nuestra red neurológica realmente se expande. Tanto nuestro cerebro como nuestro espíritu maduran juntos.

With the benefit of age and parenthood, I've started to appreciate the fact that my father, Officer Thomas Daley Sr., was a complex man who saw the world in black and white. I'm a simple man who sees the world in shades of gray. There was plenty of room for both of us. Time has made me more forgiving of his real and perceived shortcomings. For

Once we're grown, all we can hear are what the poet described: the echoes, dying.

Can you believe our Ash is getting laid? Our baby is growing up. I'm so proud!

I'm old enough to make you look like an embryo. [Thorn]

I'm not a child. Don't talk to me like I am. (Kiara) No, you're worse. You're an adult who still thinks the world is a beautiful place, filled with people who will help you just for the sake of being nice. Wake up and smell the bloodbath and humility the rest of us have to cope with. (Syn)

And I don't want his body touching something I wear. He'll contaminate it. (Sasha) Oh, good grief, Sasha. Grow up. You're four hundred years old and you're acting like a whelp. It's not like he has cooties or anything. (Astrid) Yes he does! (Sasha)