Quotes About Maturity

The grand instructor, time.

In the beginning I pushed toward perfection, but it takes time to get to certain places.

We barely have enough time to figure out who we are and then we become bitter and isolated as we age.

Having experienced everything one time already made it easier the second time around.

I took some time away from the music industry. I've been doing this since I was 16 and needed some time to get to know myself as a grown-up.

I don't know why it is, but sometimes I feel like I'm 60. It's like I've been around for a long time. I felt that way even when I was 8.

I am more mature. I'm a better football player. I just feel like this is my time.

Snap judgments? I'd gotten over those about the time I was toilet trained. Swore off diapers and faith in the human experience all in one week.

Election night is the easiest time to act like a grownup.

As you get older, you just lose that confidence and narcissism you have in your twenties. You realize you have less time on the planet, and you become cynical and less confident.

I didn't have a teenage or early-20s experience that was free and without worry. I missed the screw-everything, have-a-good-time phase.

Growing up means :propelling yourself forward into whatever lies ahead, one turn of the wheel at a time.

You can't help being young, but it's past time that you stopped being stupid.

Fringe' was the first time I realized that I could ever man up in a character and make this transition from being a boy or a young man into actually being a man.

When I first came in, I partied and had a good time. I used to spend $500,000 on chains that don't make no sense. Then I started having babies. I don't do the bull**** no more.

Most men die many times in their lives. The man we become invariably slaughters the child we once were. His knowledge of the world murders the babe's innocence. from Time Untime by Sherrilyn Kenyon

The hardest thing in acting is going from child actor to adult actor. It's taken me a long time.

I developed this guiding statement to stress on the fact that every good thing takes time to develop.

I've always sort of time-locked and mind-blocked myself in my 30s, and that's always the age I feel.

Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches bleeding wounds and knows our mother can hear only so much.

I don't think I really started to seriously compose until around that time when I was 40.

I feel like today we always glorify the young, just-plucked-from-college writer. But it's much harder to start writing later, in middle age, struggling on a book around a full-time job and family.

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Time is the nurse and breeder of all good.