Quotes About Maturity

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.

I'm not afraid of aging.

Time to grow up. Time to stop bawling. Time to do SOMETHING. And that means, if I'm not sleeping, my nerd-herd isn't sleeping either-sun or no sun.

Being in one's 50s is a powerful time.

As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing.

In my old age, I was at last being permitted to make the discovery that lovemaking gets better and better with time, if it's with someone you care for.

I am Todd Hewitt, I think to myself with my eyes closed. I am twelve years and twelve months old. I live in Prentisstown on New World. I will be a man in one month's time exactly.

I needed to grow up and do things all adults do. It was time to stop having everything spoon fed to me. It was about being independent.

The stereotypical rock-star-trashing-a-hotel-room thing? Those days had passed by the time I was in a band big enough to do it.

We can never be like lillies in the garden unless we have spent time as bulbs in the dark, totally ignored.

Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile. Travel abroad and learn to live in other cultures. That's one of the things about teaching abroad.

I hope to grow up and see myself accepting myself and accepting time going by and everything falls.

People in London are so much more exposed to danger, or bad things. It took me quite a long time to grow up in that environment.

My forties are the best time I have ever gone through.

I used to be a child. It came naturally to me. I was an adult for a time, too. That came less naturally.

Youthful days are longer than those of later years, as we all learn as we grow older.

I've lived three lifetimes in my short time.

I need more time to develop as a player and as a person.

We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp--since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin.

"God", "the immortality of the soul", "salvation", "the beyond"-even as a child I had no time for such notions, I do not waste any time upon them-maybe I was never childish enough for that?

I've developed a self-discipline since the time I was a child.

I do believe in growing old gracefully, and when the time comes that I would look silly performing on stage, I'll be prepared to give it up without regrets.

By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it.

Very few among us are noble, or even mature, in all parts of our nature at the same time.