Quotes About Maturity

No child, still less a foetus, has ever mastered the art of small talk, or would ever want to. It's an adult device, a covenant with boredom and deceit.

He no longer cared much what others thought of him. There were few benefits in growing older, and this was one.

No child, still less a foetus, has ever mastered the art of small talk, or would ever want to. It's an adult device, a covenant with boredom and deceit.

Israel had always thought that growing up was simply something that happened to you: you grew taller, more dextrous, you acquired language, learned to feed yourself, developed intellectually, went to school, got a mortgage, had children, got fatter and tired and full of regrets, and that was it, you were grown up, you were an adult. There was more to it than that though, apparently - and it was something that women knew, and men did not.

So this is what it's about? This is your mature response to go off into the mountains rather than talking about it and have s'mores with a gnome and a mountain man. Yep What's your plan for tomorrow? Brunch with a unicorn?

Do you know what separates adults from children? Self-discipline. We don't want to go to work, we don't want to do our chores, and we don't want to make unpleasant decisions, but we do all those things because we're aware of the consequences which will follow if we don't.

Settle down, Princess. It's not my first time.

I squinted at her. "You're an adult." "You're an adult too." "But you're an older adult. You've had more practice." Mom leaned back and laughed.

Do you know what separates adults from children? Self-discipline. We don't want to go to work, we don't want to do our chores, and we don't want to make unpleasant decisions, but we do all those things because we're aware of the consequences which will follow if we don't.

Julie looked like she was about to cry and waved her arms. Whatever. Look, I'm not stupid. I know things! Adult things. - Like what? Like sex. I know about sex. I just stared at her. I wasn't opening that can of worms.

I realized that I'm a child. William looked point-blank at her chest. No.

Most twenty-four-year-old women I know sleep in something more revealing. Something more adult. I raised my eyebrows. There is nothing wrong with my Hello Kitty T-shirt. It was thin and comfortable, and it reached to my mid-thigh, which meant that if I had to get up in the middle of the night to dispatch any intruders, I'd do it with my butt covered and modesty intact. Sean frowned. Sure, if you're five. Got a touch of arrested development happening there? Argh.

As a young man, I think I was in a bit of the revenge business for too many years of my life.

I feel people may see me as that young pop star artist, which I guess I am, but I'm not that cutesy little guy anymore. I'm a young man, and I want to come off that way.

I've been involved with 'Hamilton' for about two and a half years. I've learned so much. I came into it a young man. Now I've dropped the 'young.'

As a young man, I feel as if it's all about progressing. I may have had to mature a little faster than others, but no worries. I took it on full steam and led by example off the field.

I was an insecure young man. So my need for total dedication from the people I was working with was very great. Those things were tempered as time passed by.

I've lived so much life as a young man. New Orleans, we got terms, and one's like, 'He jumped off the porch early.' That's kind of what happened to me. I had to grow up really quick.

I'm glad I had to wait until my 40s for success. I was not a mature young man and would probably have gone off the rails.

I got caught up in 35 years of Saturday nights. Every night was like party night to me. As a young man, you can do that; it's OK to be an idiot. But I woke up one day, and I realized that 35 years had gone by.

I'm 70 years old. I'm a young man, and I've still got a lot to learn, that's right, and I'm learning every day.

I'm not the same young man I was when I first got into music.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.