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Quotes About Maturity

Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life.
~ Rick Moody
God has spoken to me differently through my life, and it has gotten better as I've gotten older. I don't know if that's my reception or his maturing.
~ Rick Springfield
Maturity is when you live your life by your commitments, not by your feelings.
~ Rick Warren
There was a period in my life where I went out a lot and I had a really good time. But that period is over.
~ Rob Lowe
You wouldn't want somebody in office who hasn't experienced life.
~ Rob Lowe
When I was a child, I spoke like a child. When I was an adult, I no longer spoke like a child. When I became old and wise, I spoke again like a child. I wish I had spoken all my life like a child.
~ Robert Muller
You live with life's disappointments and learn from them. At seventy-eight, I know it all.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
I think that my sensitivity to music has actually deepened and expanded as I've gotten older. You add more life experience.
~ Rosanne Cash
Is nothing in life ever straight and clear, the way children see it?
~ Rosie Thomas
Sir, as a man advances in life, he gets what is better than admiration, - judgement, to estimate things at their true value.
~ Samuel Johnson
The idea that certain things in life - and in the universe - don't yield up their secrets is something that requires a slightly more mature reader to accept.
~ Samuel R. Delany
Her life was monotonous, but it kept her out of trouble. . . . This, her father would say, was called being an adult.
~ Sarah Addison Allen
In England, life is a long process of composing oneself.
~ Shirley Hazzard
As we grow up, it feels like you should either invite people into your life or not. There should be fewer and fewer instances of friends you 'can only take in small doses.'
~ Sloane Crosley
As you grow older, you learn to understand life a little better.
~ Solomon Burke
Forcing me to figure out how to provide for myself was probably one of the best things my parents ever did for me.
~ Sophia Amoruso
Twenty-three is said to be the prime of life by those who have reached so far and no farther. It shares this distinction with every age, from ten to three-score and ten.
~ Stella Benson
I was thrown into the fashion world, dating models - and you'd read about me dating a new starlet every month. That's just where my life was. But I've grown up a lot.
~ Stephen Dorff
I am happily married, and I think I was lucky that success came a little later in my life. It's difficult to handle all the attention when you are a young gun.
~ Steve Carell
All those people who go around saying Life begins at forty, they're notable by their absence. The nerve.
~ Steve Coogan
You know, once you have been through a certain amount of things in life, you definitely grow more comfortable with yourself.
~ Steve Nash
Amy: I never knew you drank wine. Doctor: I'm 1103 I must have drunk it sometime in my life. *takes sip and spits it out in disgust*
~ Steven Moffat
Change and renewal are themes in life, arent they? We keep growing throughout life.
~ Susan Minot
Of the few innocent pleasures left to men past middle life, the jamming of common sense down the throats of fools is perhaps the keenest.
~ Thomas Huxley