Quotes About Maturity

No man knows he is young while he is young.

The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.

Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

The bird that has taught its nestling to fly does not try to keep it in the nest, when it is once able to take care of itself.

The one great art is that of making a complete human being of oneself.

nimeni nu se na?te "bou", ci doar devine a?a.

Funny, how moms can tell you what to do no matter how old or big you are.

You couldn't be old and still be wrong about as many things as she'd been wrong about, and it was a kind of immaturity to call yourself old before you were.

I like all weddings, but isn't it particularly lovely when two grown-ups decide to get married?

Methinks I have grown soft in my middle age. But me-also-thinks my latter-day reaction speaks to the necessity of encountering stories at precisely the right time in our lives. Remember, Maya: the things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life. —

So many of the mothers she knew said that their children were exactly themselves from the moment they appeared in the world. But Sadie disagreed. What person was a person without language? Tastes? Preferences? Experiences? And on the other side of childhood, what grown-up wanted to believe that they had emerged from their parents fully formed? Sadie knew that she herself had not become a person until recently. It was unreasonable to expect a child to emerge whole cloth.

He was no longer the boy who wanted to taste everything at the buffet, and he considered it a sign of his own maturity that he had not thought to end things with Zoe. But his disdain for his former itinerancy had made it so he could not recognize the reasons a person should stay.

she'd felt old, but that night, she realized she wasn't old at all. You couldn't be old and still be wrong about as many things as she'd been wrong about, and it was a kind of immaturity to call yourself old before you were.

How quickly you go from being the youngest to the oldest person in a room, she thought.

I think I don't like children because I hated being young.

Since she'd started teaching and become a mother, she'd felt old, but that night, she realized she wasn't old at all. You couldn't be old and still be wrong about as many things as she'd been wrong about, and it was a kind of immaturity to call yourself old before you were.

You couldn't be old and still be wrong about as many things as she'd been wrong about, and it was a kind of immaturity to call yourself old before you were.

But Ant was no longer a kid, and his eyes reminded Sam of his own. They had the patina of a person who had felt pain and expected to feel it again.

I thought I was grown-up. I thought I knew what I was doing. These were a few of the lies I told myself.

It is relatively easy to pack up your life when you're twenty-three, and Sadie was significantly finished by the time Dov returned from the break.

as coisas que nos tocam aos vinte não são necessariamente as que nos tocam aos quarenta, e vice-versa. isso é verdade para livros e para a vida.

You don't want to meet someone like you too early in your life, or you won't ever like anyone else.

I like all weddings, but isn't it particularly lovely when two grown-ups decide to get married?

She should be nicer. It's a well-known fact that hate shows up on your face once you're forty.