Quotes About Maturity

The good old days needed a lot of improvement. People aren't the only things that get better with age.

I may be a little like the grown-ups. I must have grown old.

You needn't worry. I don't think you have aged enough for me to partake of you. Blood, women, wine, and cheese all get better with the passage of time. You are not quite ripe. --Lane DeLuca

Don't care too much about life, in time you'll learn to know yourself better and better.

Let time that makes you homely make you sage.

Time gives good advice.

Though thy beginning was small yet thy latter end should greatly increase.

Time is the wisest counselor.

Judges don't age time decorates them.

I'm learning all the time. I'm evolving all the time as a human being. I'm getting better, I hope, in all of the important ways.

I think there's a lot of learning process in figuring out what things you want to do and shouldn't do. Maturing in that way is something that comes with experience and time.

Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.

There is no age better than another. The commitment to give of yourself and the knowledge that the time is right are what's important.

When you are young, do not get involved in steady dating. When you reach an age where you think of marriage, then is the time to become so involved.

I've spent a lot of time in a rock n' roll band trying to fight off the fact that I was old enough to rent a car. And it's all sort of rushed in at once now. And I like it.

The sense of anger I had when I was younger is something I thought would never go away. Over time, it's something you get almost bored with.

The pebbles of knowledge must be bonded together by the cement of experience.

You can do what you want, at home. But when you go out, keep it together.

People get married when they're 18 and spend their whole lives together. I think their greatest fear is that someone will see it as a fling because they were young and it didn't mean anything.

We've been given the covenant community because we need each other, and together we'll be more mature, experience more life, and know more joy than we ever would apart from one another.

His years of dependency were past. It was time to grow up and take charge. It was not going to be easy. But he had long ago realized that he must treat his blindness as a challenge rather than as a handicap if he wished to enjoy anything like a happy, fulfilled life.

Life is always like that, he said gently. We are what we are because of what has happened to us in the past. We cannot change that and we should not wish to. I love you as you are, Elizabeth. Perhaps I would not love you as well if you had not met and loved and lost Hetherington. Perhaps the experience has given you the air of maturity and serenity that I so admire in you. Give me your future, my dear. I do not ask for the past.

And you must not be in a hurry to fall in love or to imagine that you should be in love with someone. You are very young, Cecily. Be sure that when you do marry, it is to someone you can trust completely.

He had reacted to pain and loss in a remarkably immature manner—as usual. Nothing much ever changed in his life, except the incidentals.