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Quotes About Maturity

Don't read a book out of its right time for you.
~ Doris Lessing
Playing 13 years is a long time, but I feel really good. It's not like I'm [old]. I'm just thankful.
~ Dwight Howard
I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time.
~ Ernest Hemingway
There are no shortcuts to spiritual maturity. It takes time to be holy.
~ Erwin W. Lutzer
I sometimes read that it's time for German democracy to finally grow up. I don't see it as a sign of maturity if we treat military missions as something normal.
~ Guido Westerwelle
Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above this is the right time for marriage.
~ Hesiod
I've had my bubblegum years and I did them well. Now it's time to come back as the woman, artist, and musician that I am without apologizing.
~ Irene Cara
By the time a man can afford to lose a golf ball, he can't hit that far.
~ Jacob Braude
It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I was a lawyer for 10 years - a short time, but it molded me into who I am.
~ John Grisham
We started this band as kids, and as time has gone on, we've grown and are learning to accommodate each others' differences.
~ Layne Staley
There is a time in science when it's too early to attack a problem. The stuff has to bubble a bit more and you have to be able to have the foundation on which to stand.
~ Nils John Nilsson
We will sell no wine before its time.
~ Orson Welles
Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are.
~ Robert Jordan
By the time an actor knows how to act any sort of part he is often too old to act any but a few.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
So wake me up when it's all over When I'm wiser and I'm older All this time I was finding myself And I didn't know I was lost
~ Aloe Blacc
When I got to Saturday Night Live, it was a lot like going from pre-school to Harvard, and it took a long time to figure stuff out.
~ Bill Hader
I think it's the things we don't talk about that make us old before out time.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.
~ Eddie Murphy
If we spent as much time feeling positive about getting older, as we do trying to stay young, how much different our lives would be.
~ Rob Brown
When you have your heart broken for the first time, you gain depth.
~ Sienna Miller
We raise our children to leave us. - Caramon Majere
~ Margaret Weis
Très vite dans ma vie il a été trop tard. A dix-huit ans il était déjà trop tard. Entre dix-huit ans et vingt-cinq ans mon visage est parti dans une direction imprévue. A dix-huit ans j'ai vieilli.
~ Marguerite Duras
Michael Richardson's eyes had grown brighter. His face had tightened into the full of maturity. Pain was etched upon it, ancient, primordial pain. The moment they saw him again this way, they knew that nothing—no word, no earthly act of violence-could have the least effect upon the change in Michael Richardson. That it now had to be played out to the bitter end. Michael Richardson's new tale had already begun to take shape.
~ Marguerite Duras