Quotes About Maturity

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

I appricated that Nell was talking to me like a grown-up, but I had no idea what she meant. Still, I could see that the words flowed together like water over a riverbed.

Look, I know Phillip since he was five years old -- and even then you'd have thought he was six foot four and bulletproof, he was that mouthy. And bad? My Jesus Christ.

We can grieve over lost powers and memories, or rejoice over gained knowledge and maturity, according to taste.

He once said that before he was thirty, he had done everything on instinct. After thirty he began to understand why he did the things he did.

I am the scalpel that cuts out infection, and the heartbreak that makes men wiser.

Age is a plow that unearths the true nature of things. But only after the moment has passed and we are powerless to change anything, are we granted wisdom. As though we are living backward.

Domestic dogs are essentially wolf puppies that have grown up physically, but not reached emotional maturity. That's why many women prepare for life with a man by first practising with a dog.

A summer apart changes people.s

What are you boys doing?" she asks, as if we're still little kids messing around. "Arguin'," Carlos says matter-of-factly.

Sometimes good men need to do things that aren't good. Right?" I ruffle his hair. Luis is way more innocent than I was at his age. "You know, I think you're gonna be the smartest Fuentes yet, little bro.

The gentlemen always find their way back home, but little boys get lost forever.

The mature speak to God daily.

The way of thinking has to be aligned with age and if not, it has to be advanced.

From forty till fifty a man is at heart either a stoic or a satyr.

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

I'm not young enough to know everything.

But age, with his stealing steps,Hath claw'd me in his clutch.

There is nothing like a coup de foudre and absorption in family responsibility for maturing the male and pulling his scattered wits together.

To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy.

Through them, I was able to make a turn in myself, and somehow that view from the window seen alone and at night has become an image for what I now recognize as the end of my childhood.

Years later, when I was grown (much taller than he ever grew) and I saw him in a local bar, he remembered my "crush" and said he regretted not acting on it. As silly as it sounds, this confession of his gave me real satisfaction, but the fact is he didn't want the fourteen-year-old I had been but the twenty-two-year-old I had become - another person altogether.

In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.