Quotes About Maturity

Kids instinctively know - although they will argue to the contrary - that they really are not mature enough to make good decisions on some important issues.

Kids can still call me Shaq, but adults should call me Dr. O'Neal.

As you grow older, you want to learn, you want to change, you want to evolve and you don't want to live in fear. Fear is the mind killer.

I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.

I've known my wife since we were 13 years old in eighth grade, and we kinda dated each other's best friends. The four of us always hung out, but I really wanted her. We dated around 17, but I was no way mature enough for her.

I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.

I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.

I should have been kinder when I was younger.

My novel, 'Kingdom of Scars', is a coming-of-age story.

I really didn't have an interest in being in the kitchen until after I was married, when I was 18. It didn't take me long to realize that Mama was not going to show up at my house every day and cook.

I left home at 18, I thought I knew everything. It was fun for a while and then it wasn't fun any more.

At seventeen, I knew the end of a dream... I would never be a schoolboy again.

The older I get, the more interesting the part has to be. Bobby Knight is extremely interesting.

With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.

When I was an amateur, I would go to knock guys out in the first minute. When you get experience, you know it doesn't work like that.

In my case, having knocked around at different jobs helped me get a sense of what the world is actually like and also helped me get out of a cocoon.

If you want to be with someone who is 15 or 20 years younger, that's fine, but I've found that if you haven't been knocked down a little bit, then you're probably not going to be hanging with me too much.

The groupies, they been around since I was 16, that's when we started off doing the independent thing. I've grown up now, I'm a man, so it's time for me to make man decisions in my life so that's what I'm doing, and just jumping over that broomstick and tying the knot was one of 'em.

I don't think anybody should get married before they're 30. You're too young to really know yourself.

Knowing how to age and not being afraid of aging is very healthy.

It's a society of knowledge and experience. You have better experience and knowledge when you are 60, 65 and 70.

I've seen it all, done it all, known it all.

I started out with this 'La Boheme' fantasy, but as you get older, the 'La Boheme' fantasy becomes less sexy, believe me.

Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.