Quotes About Maturity

but I am old. It is important to accept truths, even when they are inconvenient.

Fussing keeps you sharp. When you get old, you need to stay sharp.

That it is still important to keep improving our lives, even at our age, and we should treat ourselves better and stop acting like our best years are behind us.

I reckon responsible behavior is something to get when you grow older. Like varicose veins.

He sighed. It had come to this. He was a responsible authority, and people could use terms like core values at him with impunity.

But in cynicism and general world weariness, which is a sort of carbon dating of the personality, he was about seven thousand years old.

His age was indeterminate. But in cynicism and general world weariness, which is a sort of carbon dating of the personality, he was about seven thousand years old.

You call yourself some kind of goddess and you know nothing, madam, nothing. What don't die can't live. What don't live can't change. What don't change can't learn. The smallest creature that dies in the grass knows more than you. You're right. I'm older. You've lived longer than me but I'm older than you. And better'n you. And, madam, that ain't hard.

That was always the dream, wasn't it? "I wish I knew then what I know now"? But when you got older, you found out that you now wasn't you then. You then was a twerp. You then was what you had to be to start out on the rocky road of becoming you now, and one of the rocky patches on that road was being a twerp. A much better dream, one that'd ensure sounder sleep, was not to know now what you didn't know then.

I often thought that everyone has their, you know, natural age.

a school's worth should be measured not by how its students perform on standardized tests but by how well they function as adult graduates of the school...

She siged, a sound of regret for childhood transgressions, for all the lessons learned too late.

men that age aren't known for their superior judgment.

septuagenarian.

Denn man hört nie auf erziehungsbedürftig zu sein; ich gehe noch jetzt in die Schule und lerne von Leuten, die meine Enkel sein könnten.

It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that men become fully human.

He had an animal's maturity, in which the play of kittens and puppies no longer has a function. His spectrum lay between terror and contentment.

I think it's a change that I did not intend at the time but it is clear that, from The Flower of My Secret on, there is a change in my films. A lot of the journalists have very generously attributed this to my growing maturity.

Although we hardly see each other off the set, Joy and I get along well when we do. As far as the marriage between Nathan and Haley, I think they are young and will see the reality of the situation eventually.

You get to a certain age and you can't judge yourself on your dad or your parents.

People should judge me for what I've done in 25 years. I'm not a rookie in F1.

Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.

Judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.

There's a grown-upness about television now that wasn't there before. You do know you're doing stuff for adults who can tell the difference between right and wrong, well hopefully, and make judgements about violence. And with 'Peaky,' always if there is an act of violence, there is a consequence.