Quotes About Maturity

Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.

Its taken me a long time to become the person I am, for all the ugliness to fall away. The rotten flesh is gone, and the seed is there. I can touch that now.

I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

The older I get, the less time I want to spend with the part of the human race that didn't marry me.

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Hopefully, as a band, it will grow and develop for a good length of time.

You look older." "Yes, well. The passage of time tends to do that to a person.

Maybe since I was 35 years old it was time to go upstairs.

This moment in time, on this tour, you know, I'm discovering a lot of new things. And to be 45 and doing that, it's a mixture of pleasure and pain, I can assure you.

You get better as an actor over time if you're growing. Like singers.

At 19, you know everything; by the time you're 40, you haven't got a clue.

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

A mature artist is at the same time aware of the futility of his achievement and the validity of the pursuit.

When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash.

Go beyond what you feel like doing and do what's right. Every time you do what's right when you don't feel like it, you are growing.

Time puts things in proper perspective.

In my thirties, I felt I had hold of one of the reins some of the time.

Everyone knows that I'm all in favour of apprenticeships, but let me tell you this is no time for a novice.

Everyone's light turns on at their own time.