Quotes About Maturity

My, Juanita, you're getting to be a big girl. How old are you? I can't keep track.

The book I read said ten is the nicest age of growing up. It said ten-year-olds are pleasant and agreeable

Her age was difficult too- not old enough to sit down with her mother and sew something she wanted to sew and too old to go pulling out a whole box of Kleenex and flinging it all over the house like Willa Jean. People should not think being seven-and-a-half was easy because it wasn't

A 13 anni, è risaputo, una femmina è una ragazza in fiore, una giovane donna nel pieno splendore della maturità, mentre un maschio è un lattante goffo e ridicolo che deve soltanto girare alla larga. L'unica dota apprezzabile in lui è quella di saper star al suo posto. Cioè fuori dai piedi.

The brain takes a long time to form completely. A teenager's brain is only about 80 percent finished (which may not come as a great surprise to the parents of teenagers

The brain takes a long time to form completely. A teenager's brain is only about 80 percent finished

It really doesn't pay to go back and look again at the things that once delighted you, because it's unlikely they will delight you now. I

Her close-cropped hair is now completely gray. Her eyes are probing but kind.

Strive for Progress Not Perfection

As we mature, however, we realize that in order to embrace everyone at the table, we must be willing to release the grip on our personal agenda and see what is best for the community.

If a fourteen year-old can deliver your message, it's not because he's gifted. It's because intellectually, you're a child.

Years from now, when I'm successful and happy, ...and he's in prison... I hope I'm not too mature to gloat.

Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.

I don't think I'd have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I'd known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed.

I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up.

No thanks. This is a lovely dream, but it's a child's dream. I know some who'd argue the point, but I grew up long ago. - Rose Red (Fables: Vol.21, Happily Ever After)

This growing old is the great test, you know— the challenge we've been preparing for all along.

The longer you live, the better you get.

It's not dark yet But it's getting there

But I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.

Rudy, you're a baby!" Trump said loudly. "I've never seen a worse defense of me in my life. They took your diaper off right there. You're like a little baby that needed to be changed. When are you going to be a man?

He's 71. He's not going to admit he's wrong, ever.

at twenty-one or twenty-two so many things appear solid and permanent and terrible which forty sees are nothing but disappearing miasma. Forty can't tell twenty about this; that's the pity of it! Twenty can find out only by getting to be forty.

It is love in old age, no longer blind, that is true love. For the love's highest intensity doesn't necessarily mean it's highest quality.