Quotes About Maturity

The future is now. It's time to grow up and be strong. Tomorrow may well be too late.

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd grown up

It is, indeed, one of the capital tragedies of youth-and youth is the time of real tragedy-that the young are thrown mainly with adults they do not quite respect.

Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.

Good software, like wine, takes time.

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

I think it takes a long time, as you get older, to realize just how crazy the world is, just how ridiculous it all is.

And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.

My intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.

If the weeds are pulled out of the garden too soon, the too shallow roots of the plants developing around it get pulled up with the weed also. Time is what is needed before criticism can be useful.

A grown man should always carry cash, right? I don't know who told me, but someone told me that a long time ago, and the biggest turnoff is when a guy doesn't have cash on him.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

It would seem to me that by the time a race has achieved deep space capability it would have matured to a point where it would have no thought of dominating another intelligent species.

I would rather be old for a shorter time than be old before my time.

It took me a long time, but I don't feel as anxious about stupid things anymore - or perhaps they've just been replaced by more complicated stupid things.

I write songs from the point of view I had at a time;I'm not tryingto write songs from a young person's point of view.That only ends in disaster.

Time heals almost everything. But when you are healed, you are too old to enjoy

I'm 42 now, what I would consider prime time.

I'm a little bit older, I've traveled the world, spent lots of time in New York and Paris and lots of inspiring places, and I still feel alien.

As we grow older we grow both more foolish and wiser at the same time.