Quotes About Maturity

The compleat gentleman is not a perfect man.

She didn't want Oren upset. This wasn't his fault, and he wasn't a young man anymore. No need to give him additional agita. She typed out a text to Oren: All good. Super busy. I'll call you later.

Growing up, she'd decided, was never easy. Adolescence is a war zone, no matter where you live.

He was no longer a child, barely an adolescent, really, moving too hard and too fast into adulthood.

Let her go? What kind of crap is that? She's eighteen, Myron. That makes her an adult. She asked you for a ride. You gallantly—and stupidly, I might add—gave her one. That's it." "That's not it.

It would be a cliché to say prison ages a man, but sometimes the cliché is apropos.

I'm little but I'm old.

As I made my way home, I thought Jem and I would get grown but there wasn't much else left for us to learn, except possibly algebra.

Cal had told her all girls had it, it was natural as breathing, it was a sign they were growing up, and they had it until they were in their fifties. At the time, Jean Louise was so overcome with despair at the prospect of being too old to enjoy anything when it would finally be over, she refrained from pursuing the subject.

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once. —Charles Lamb

Ä°çgüdüleri henüz yok olmam??. Biraz büyüsün, ne aÄŸlar ne hastalan?r. Bekle biraz büyüsün. Ä°ÅŸlerin yanl?? olduÄŸunun az biraz fark?na var?r belki, ama aÄŸlamaz. Ne için aÄŸlamam Bay Raymond? Ä°nsanlar?n insanlara çektirdiklerine aÄŸlamazs?n.

I mean it takes a certain kind of maturity to live in the South these days.

Don't you oh well me,sir, Miss Maudie replied, recognizing Jem's fatalistic noises, you are not old enough to appreciate what I said.

When Jem and I asked him why he was so old, he said he got started late, which we felt reflected upon his abilities and manliness.

I mean it takes a certain kind of maturity to live in the South these days. You don't have it yet, but you have a shadow of the beginnings of it. You haven't the humbleness of mind- I thought the fear of the Lord was the beginning of wisdom. It's the same thing. Humility.

It's not becoming to a child. It's—cynical.

I don't call fifty very old," said Miss Maudie tartly.

Dill was in hearty agreement with this plan of action. Dill was becoming something of a trail anyways, following Jem about... He only grew closer to Jem. (Lee 55)

I told Jem if he set fire to the Radley house I was going to tell Atticus on him.

I'm little but I'm old

You said, in effect, 'I don't like the way these people do, so I have no time for them.' You'd better take time for 'em, honey, otherwise you'll never grow. You'll be the same at sixty as you are now—then

Atticus's wisdom; he was growing old and he wanted to die safe in the knowledge that his daughter could fend for herself.

I mean it takes a certain kind of maturity to live in the South these days. You don't have it yet, but you have a shadow of the beginnings of it. You haven't the humbleness of mind—" "I thought fear of the Lord was the beginning of wisdom." "It's the same thing. Humility.

Dill's eyes flickered at Jem, and Jem looked at the floor. Then he rose and broke the remaining code of our childhood. He went out of the room and down the hall. "Atticus," his voice was distant, "can you come here a minute, sir?