Quotes About Maturity

Some simple truths are so clear to a dazzling degree that to realize them you need to think over and live for a long time

I am persuaded that our intellects at twenty contain all the truths we shall ever find

People change and mature.

As you grow wiser, so does your personality.

Still humanity is in her infancy, so often we engage in fighting to destroy ourself.

You overcome a problem, not by solving it, but by becoming bigger than the problem.

Broken boys are dangerous, but broken men are lovely.

Truth is a child of Time

It is my feeling that Time ripens all things with Time all things are revealed Time is the father of truth.

Question like a child, reason like an adult, and write like a sage.

now i am oldolder enough to have known the worldand i am sad

When I was a kid, I hated the mask of adulthood. And I was threatened by it.

Now you get off that Pegasus and come down here and start acting your age! Honey, he's four thousand years old, Veronica said.

So Henry, Puck said as he kicked off his shoes and propped his smelly feet on the kitchen table. I was wondering what you can tell me about puberty. Henry turned pale and stammered. Sabrina wanted to crawl under the table and die.

It's simply the case that as I get older, I seem every day to give a little bit less of a fuck what people think of or say about me.

It had been quite some time since the duty and pleasure of undressing her son had fallen to Rosa. For several years, she had been wishing him, willing him, into maturity, independence, a general proficiency beyond his years, as if hoping to skip him like a stone across the treacherous pond of childhood, and now she was touched by a faint trace of the baby in him, in his pouting lips and the febrile sheen of his eyelids.

They were little more than boys, and yet while they differed in race, in temperament, and in their understanding of love, they were united in this: The remnant of their boyhood was a ballast they wished to cut away.

An excess of the desire to appear grown up is one of the defining characteristics of adolescence.

The gray had not yet chased all of the brown out of his hair but it was getting close to victory.

Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties.

Kids are more advanced these days. The teenage years now start at 11.

Now, what is interesting about this process is that, by the time someone has acquired the ability to kill with his bare hands, he has also matured to the point where he won't use it unwisely. So that kind of power has a built-in control. The discipline of getting the power changes you so that you won't abuse it.

Who has more power than a child? She can be as cruel as she wants to be. He can't.

I'm just a child who's learned to impersonate an adult.