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Quotes About Maturity

Experience is the teacher of all things.
~ Julius Caesar
But she was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.
~ Junot Diaz
Read more than you write, live more than you read
~ Junot Diaz
She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life
~ Junot Diaz
I think older people can appreciate my music because I really show my heart when I sing, and it's not corny. I think I can grow as an artist, and my fans will grow with me.
~ Justin Bieber
The progress of her aging seemed to occur in fits and starts, not so much a matter of physical growth as a deepening self-possession, as if she were coming into ownership of her life.
~ Justin Cronin
His son's transformation cannot be stopped, or hastened, or adjusted; the man he will become is already present, like a form emerging from a slab of stone. All that remains is to watch it happen.
~ Justin Cronin
In 1945, scientific knowledge leaped way ahead of our maturity as a species. We are still lagging way behind.
~ Justin Cronin
What was the point of being an adult if you couldn't control your master plan?
~ Justina Chen
I had waited a long time to say those words, and I thought it would be hard to use them, that the claim would be too big for me. Surprisingly, it wasn't. I had grown into the words.
~ Justina Chen
When you get to my age, you'll find it's fatally easy to forget to hate all your enemies all the time; and once you've slipped up and not hated one of them, it makes it almost impossibly hard to hate the rest of them.
~ K.J. Parker
I've always had this theory, that we're all born with a certain optimum age, the age we're really meant to be, and once we reach it we stick there, in our minds, where it counts. Personally I've always been twenty-five. I was good at being twenty-five.
~ K.J. Parker
Wisdom does not always come with age. It comes from Experience. - Kailin Gow on Wisdom and Experience.
~ Kailin Gow
She's done so much, and seen so much, that it's like she's lived twice that long in terms of her experiences.", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow
~ Kailin Gow
You are truly an adult, when you assume the responsibilities of an adult, when you can take care of your parents instead of your parents taking care of you. - Kailin Gow
~ Kailin Gow
What can I say?" he says when I ask him back at the beach house about it. "I just know how to get along with kids." Rachel, who's sitting at the kitchen table, snorts. "Mostly because you never grew up.", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow
~ Kailin Gow
On the contrary, the older you get, the more risks you are willing to take - Kailin Gow, Leadership with a Purpose
~ Kailin Gow
It has been said that a man at ten is an animal, at twenty a lunatic, at thirty a failure, at forty a fraud, and at fifty a criminal. Perhaps he becomes a criminal because he has never ceased to be an animal.
~ Kakuz? Okakura
Alguien ha dicho que el hombre es, a los diez años, un animal; a los veinte, un loco; a los treinta, un fracasado; a los cuarenta, un falsario y a los cincuenta, un criminal.
~ Kakuz? Okakura
Said he (Sung Dynasty critic): "In my young days I praised the masters whose pictures I liked, but as my judgment matured I praised myself for liking what the masters had chosen to have me like.
~ Kakuz? Okakura
Still children into their twenties, this generation
~ Kamila Shamsie
This is how you know you aren't young any more: you start to care more about thread count than immediate gratification.
~ Kamila Shamsie
When I was in B2K, we were just talking about love, being in love. But now I'm talking about being intimate, understanding what love really is about.
~ Omarion
I'm generally intimidated by adults.
~ Mayim Bialik