Quotes About Maturity

What was the first thing a man must do before he can be a man? He must be born. He must leave the womb; and once left, it could not be re-entered.

He clearly knew how dangerous it was to have an excited twelve-year-old handling a powerful weapon.

I'm forty-nine, not fifteen, and I've made my peace with myself. Had I been handsome and stupid when I was fifteen, or twenty-one, as, at that time in life, I wished I had been, I would undoubtedly now no longer be handsome--but I'd still be stupid. So, in the long run, I've won out.

Perhaps! Your opinions are yours, of course. Still you are rather young." Dryly. "It is a fault that most people are guilty of at some period of their life. You became mayor of the city when you were two years younger than I am now.

It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child, and there was a lump in Gaal's throat.

the intruder was an obviously mature thirty, at least—quite elderly, in fact.)

He was not young any longer. Life no longer stretched before him as a vast uncharted field, its horizon lost in the distance.

It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child

You are now too old to be made a scholar after my fashion, but you are never too old to learn more than you already know and to become able to do more than you already can.

Quizá! Sus opiniones son suyas, naturalmente. Aún es usted muy joven. —Es un defecto que la mayor parte de la gente tiene en cierto período de su vida.

Los tiempos hacen al hombre

Akl? ba??nda insan, haddini bilen insand?r

la edad, por sí sola, no hace a nadie mejor ni más sabio, sólo acentúa lo que cada uno ha sido siempre.

Vârsta în sine nu îi face pe oameni mai buni sau mai înÈ›elepÈ›i, ci doar înt?reÈ™te tr?s?turile pe care aceÈ™tia le-au avut dintotdeauna.

Exert some independence; you're not a little girl. You can't let anyone else decide things for you. You have to take care of yourself in this world, she said. I've never forgotten those words.

that in itself age doesn't make anyone better or wiser, but only accentuates what they have always been.

Her Uncle Jaime felt that people never read what did not interest them and that if it interested them that meant they were sufficiently mature to read it.

She awoke from a long childhood in which she had always been protected and surrounded by attention and comforts, with no responsibilities.

Her body was growing old, but inside she still kept intact the adolescent she once was.

Intimacy needs time to mature—a shared history, tears shed, obstacles overcome, photographs in an album. It's a slow-growing plant.

Con la edad se adquiere cierta humildad, Alexander. Mientras más años cumplo, más ignorante me siento. Sólo los jóvenes tienen explicación para todo. A tu edad se puede ser arrogante y no importa mucho hacer el ridículo —replicó ella secamente.

abandonó la idea de ser su dueño absoluto, como pretendió en la juventud, y sólo entonces pudo abrazarla en términos de igualdad.

Si eres brillante de joven, no significa que de adulto sirvas para algo.

El tío Ramón me dio los más útiles instrumentos para la vida, como descubrí en terapia a una edad madura: memoria selectiva para recordar lo bueno, prudencia lógica para no arruinar el presente, y optimismo desafiante para encarar el futuro.