Quotes About Maturity

I used to want to gamble, too, until I was 20 and could actually go to a casino. Then I wasn't so crazy about the attitude.

It sucked to be old enough to want to know what was going on, but so young you were always dismissed.

I am simply not such a slave to my vanity, and I don't want to be, because as you get older you really have to start accepting the inevitable.

Getting older, you just don't want to sing fluffy.

I'm very clear about what I want to say. I have a great team and it's going well. I have a feeling of maturity.

No one wants to hear my perspective on politics, but I think honestly as you get older, you get more interested in it.

I can't really dress rock 'n' roll any more because I'm the wrong side of 40, but I want that to be the fashion.

I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today.

I used to want to be the quickest, loudest, and sharpest. I think as time has gone on, I've gotten more relaxed.

About the time we get old enough to be as wicked as we want to be, we don't want to be so very wicked after all.

Our focus reflects our love and admiration for you. . . . We want you to live lives of spiritual maturity and fulfillment, free of unrealistic comparisons.

In the past I would self destruct when it came to love - I was immature, throwing myself into things but now times have changed, I want a relationship where you understand the other person.

I was 13 and a teenager, as well. When you're that age, you want to be an adult, in a way, but you don't want to have the responsibilities of an adult. You still want to have the freedom.

The kids are old enough now - I just want to let them be kids. I don't want to comment on them too much. They're at an age where I just want to let them be kids.

When does it happen? All those wounds that ended up making us the adults we are?

False visions of the world were a child's right, not something to be resented, but neither were they worthy of any adult sense of longing.

If I'd known a lecture was coming, I'd have kept my mouth shut." "Coming to terms with life as an adolescent, are you?

You still think like a child, don't you? Clay figurines sunk to their ankles in the sand, one here, one there, standing just so. One says this, the other says that, then you reach down and rearrange them accordingly. Scenes, vistas, stark with certainty.

Maiden, mother and grandmother, a progression through time—" "Discounting the drudgery spent as wife. Wisdom unfurls like a flower in a pile of dung.

your mind, it would seem, these are but titles. Responsibilities one grows into, as it were. But the truth of it is, the title awaits only those who have already grown into a person worthy of the responsibility.

We define adulthood as a solemn recognition of responsibility. We make the distinction when considering the acts of children, and will argue that they were not responsible, because their brains have not yet matured to make the proper connection between an act and its consequences.

Hopes had a way of sinking fast once you stepped out of childhood.

In your family, your parents did not empathize with you. They expected a great deal more from you than you were capable of giving. At age seven, for example, you may have looked and acted quite mature, yet you still had your moments of whining and crying, you still needed considerable comfort and guidance. Your parents, not taking into account that this was to be expected, struck out aggressively against you because you were not acting according to their expectations.

I remember Jerzy Dudek being in a terrible state. Normally Jerzy's the nicest fellow on the planet; but after a night on the drink he came out of Monty's wanting to fight the security guys and the police. He wanted to take on the world. I think that's when most of us realized, a little blearily, it was time to call it a night.