Quotes About Maturity

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

I have never directed. But I think I could. I have thought about it. I'm a bit long in the tooth to start.

I couldn't care less what anyone's 'perception' of me is. I'm too long in the tooth to care.

When I was young, I thought I wouldn't be a good mother. Now I think I would be, but I'm too long in the tooth.

Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.

Real Madrid is a club where you have to go when you are mature and at the top of your game.

My first Olympics was Munich in 1972. I am better now than I was then, in knowledge and experience. The age of top riders generally tends to be older than in other sports because it takes a lot of time to be consistent.

My task with 'Uh-Huh' was to make a more even record and get away from juvenile topics like 'Hurts So Good.' But I also knew if I wanted to continue, I had to have more hits.

When you get to be a certain age, you want to wear your tops a little longer or pants that are more generous in the back area.

One of my problems is I am getting so mature that I have to pick up a TV and toss it through the coffee table just to remind people of who I am. I want to go ranting and screaming into the grave.

One of my best friends, Mike, had a kid. Just seeing him go through it all was inspiring. It would be so nice to care about someone more than yourself. And Mike is a total delinquent, so if he can do it, I figure I can, too.

I'm totally growing up.

Kids think of us as being totally over the hill.

My 20s were totally bonkers. I was living out of a suitcase and burning the candle at both ends. But I tell you - I am totally over it.

Remember, very few of us wind up marrying the people we date in high school. So even though you may be convinced your current boyfriend or girlfriend is the one, they most likely aren't.

Sometimes you have to take a break from being a crazy kid. You can't be doing that all the time. Sometimes you just have to pay respect to your own simple-ness.

I have everything under control. It's time you realized it and let me be who I am.

Of course I was young, very young, but, as I remember it, no one is ever quite so old as a fifteen-year-old girl.

There is no development, no maturing in Hitler's character and personality.

How do you become an adult in a society that doesn't ask for sacrifice? How do you become a man in a world that doesn't require courage?

It well becomes a man who is no longer young to forget that he ever was.

I maybe had a first love and had my heart broken, but reflecting on it, I don't think that was love. I think as I'm getting older and having more in-depth relationships, maybe I'll experience it. At the moment, I don't know, exactly, if I've been in love.

Sabes, David, é um prazer ser ceifeiro quando os campos ondulam carregados de trigo maduro. Mas se obrigassem alguém a ir ceifar umas pobres espigas ainda não amadurecidas, seria uma tarefa repugnante.

When we met, we were serious and old beyond our years, but then we began to grow backward and now we are two weary, frightened children.