Quotes About Maturity

All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up--that growing is an ever ongoing process.

I will never be old. To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

Fifteen-year-old girls produce children with sixteen-year-old boys in the backseat of cars and in the stairwells of apartment buildings. Why can't two loving adults who have contemplated parenthood and are prepared to offer love, patience, and devotion come up with enough chromosomal matter to stick together and create a child?

And it took me, since I was 17 and left home, running from God, to now, as a 30-year-old man, when I honestly feel like I've come full circle and my heart's finally in the right place.

It was an old soul in a new shell.

Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.

From the time I was 16 and I had my own checking account, you'd think most young women would run out and buy clothes. No, I ran out and got myself a psychiatrist!

I always had an easier time with adults. Somehow, I was always old! I still feel old.

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Tolerance of dissent is the hallmark of a mature party, and it is well past time for the Republican Party to grow up.

It was really an exciting time trying to find my way from being a boy to becoming a man—being toe to toe and eye to eye with grown men, even though I was only 11 or 12.

I had a great time in my youth and I still feel youthful. I've no desire to look as though I'm in my 20s.

I'm an old guy. I've been doing this a long time. And I don't hustle and I don't bustle. I have seen the people who hustle and bustle, and they are already gone, at a young age.

Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.

This year has been full of lessons learned and soul searching and realizing I'm an adult. It's time to take responsibility and not take the easy way out.

I've always loved people that's been around for a long time, like old shoes.

Although we human adults are really good at understanding other minds, we weren't always that way. It takes children a long time to break into the system.

Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.

I'm never proud of my old work. I always feel as though my skills have since improved.

Now is the time to show maximum responsibility. It is not the time to pay off old scores nor for sterile partisan recriminations. It is time to re-establish a climate of calmness and mutual respect.

I'm friends with a lot of my exes, but it took time. We didn't just get into it. I don't think you can be friends until you're cool with them dating someone else. That's when you know.

I didn't lose my virginity until I was 18 The first time was a nightmare. Who shows you how to use a condom?

When you have somebody who takes their craft seriously, you don't have to babysit them and be there all the time.

I remember being a teenager and being really impressed by "let's sit around and b*tch" people, and I have so little time for those people nowadays.