Quotes About Maturity

Leo stood behind him, his suit coat and tie off, rolling up his sleeves. "Oh, crap," I said, my voice full of gravel and bigger rocks, grinding over one another. I cleared my throat and tried again. "I'm too old for a spanking and not quite up to defending myself from a butt whupping. Can we do this another time?

My children are horrified at the histories. But the young tend to be such ninnies. Don't you agree?

She'd quite liked being young and stupid. It beat middle-aged and fairly intelligent. Sometimes.

Face it girls. I'm older and I have more insurance.

A small smile tipped up one corner of her mouth as she remembered that first night, and how ridiculously out of his element Naveen had been. She glanced over at him now, taking in his strong and handsome profile. He'd changed so much in the year since she'd first met him. He was no longer the spoiled little rich boy who thought he could get by on his looks and charm. Though he'd surely won her over with that charm in the end.

Heroes don't wear diapers. It's just not cool.

Wisdom too often never comes, so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

A culture is a civilization that has not yet achieved maturity, its greatest potential, nor consolidated its growth. Meanwhile--and the waiting period can be protracted--adjacent civilizations exploit it in a thousand ways, which is natural if not particularly just.

Dios es la razón principal de que el hombre no haya alcanzado la madurez.

As We Move On We Will Grow

The last time I read piles of erotica by choice, I was fourteen. At that stage, having no experience with men beyond snogging, I took it all as gospel. Now, after I've lived a little, I read the same works again and think, 'Has this author ever really had sex?

Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

If children were meant to run the home, they would have been born larger.

The teenagers who make the wrong choice on alcohol are probably the same children who never learned how to keep their hands out of the cookie jar.

Responsible behavior has a direct correlation to the number of decisions children are expected to make. The more they make, the more responsible they become.

Be sure to use the bathroom before we leave." Each of these messages tells children they are not capable of thinking for themselves, that they cannot take control of their life and make decisions. Interestingly, such messages often come from parents who moan and groan about their kids' lack of responsibility and ability to think for themselves.

We must understand that making good choices is like any other activity: It has to be learned.

Il vient d'avoir trente ans: l'âge bâtard où l'on est trop vieux pour être jeune, et trop jeune pour être vieux.

In viata nu ai decat o unica mare dragoste ; toate cele care o preceda sunt amoruri de rodaj, iar toate cele care o urmeaza sunt amoruri de recuperare...

Ta c? ng? r?ng càng già ta càng c?ng r?n h?n nh?ng ngh? th? là sai: ngày nào ta c?ng ph?i lòng, sau m?i ánh m?t, qua m?i ti?ng c??i trong su?t nh? pha lê mà trái tim không thôi nhung nh?. Ch? ??n gi?n là ta kìm ch? vì quá bi?t m?i chuy?n s? d?n ??n ?âu.

À 20 ans, je croyais tout savoir de la vie. À 30 ans, j'ai appris que je ne savais rien. Je venais de passer dix années à apprendre tout ce qu'il me faudrait, par la suite, désapprendre.

When I was twenty, I thought I knew everything there was to know. By thirty, I realised I didn't know shit. I had spent ten years learning things that I would then spend ten years having to unlearn.

Ya no hay adultos, lo único que queda son niños de todas las edades. Escribir un libro sobre mi infancia es, pues, hablar de mí en presente. Peter Pan es amnésico.