Quotes About Maturity

It's hard to be married to me, and it was a lot harder when I was younger!

By the time we've hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons.

I am no more young. So there is no harm in playing an elderly role.

Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

When I was a kid, I used to cry every time I lost a game, up until, like, the 8th grade. I used to go ballistic. I used to go crazy. If I cried, it'd be like, 'Ah, Chris is crying again... damn it... come on, get in the car.' All that over one game. I hated to lose.

Every kid who hated grownups becomes a grownup. Well, except the ones who died.

I'm a grown woman. The haters are definitely wrong if they think I care.

I don't remember ever being full of dislike and hatred for people, like some kids I've come across now.

Everyone out there is growing up too quickly, university does give you responsibility but you're still learning and you have time to go out and have fun.

I've calmed down, certainly, from the days of being 18, but I'm still having a good time.

I think it's harder when you get older and you start having children because you've got to get up in the morning and you've got actual responsibilities instead of just writing music for yourself.

For me, a late start was a good thing. A lot of kids who start too early get bored. I'd done all the things I wanted to do, I'd enjoyed myself, having fun and playing as an amateur and that was important.

Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.

I was one of those young cats and knuckleheads that was hard headed, that didn't listen.

In our heads we're all about 33 years old.

I think as we get older, we need a little weight on us to fill us out and make us look healthier.

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Sometimes a little heartbreak is a lesson, and the best thing to do is just learn the lesson.

When you're 16 or 17, I think like most people that age, the first time you experience certain things in life, whether it's heartbreak or death or love, obviously it's going to seem like a much bigger deal.

You can't avoid heartbreak, you can't avoid a lot of things. You have to go through them in order to become the person you're going to be.

When you are in the 20-30 age group, you experience things; your voice fully develops, and you experience heartbreak. That's what happened with me, so whenever I sing, I use my experiences.

There were a couple of years where I got a bit lost - I went out too much, I was a bit heartbroken, thought I was a bit more of a dude than I really was. I would love to go back and have a strong word with myself.

When you're growing up, you realize you've got a lot of heavy things on your shoulders.

People don't usually have long careers as heavyweights because they mature into the role. Look at amateur wrestling, you don't usually see guys go to heavyweight as freshman. I was just blessed that even though I wasn't as big as some of the other guys, I was able to step in right away at heavyweight.