Quotes About Maturity

Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.

Yeah, and by the way? How much does it suck that I'm an adult if I kill somebody, and not if I want a beer?

I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family.

When you're growing up you need your parents, but you don't want to be associated with them because you're trying to have your own life.

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death.

What war has always been is a puberty ceremony.

You can drive at 16, go to war at 18, drink at 21, and retire at 65. So who can say what age you have to be to find your true love?

Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.

Generals are fascinating cases of arrested development - after all, at five all of us wanted to be generals.

To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it ... as they once shunned bubonic plague.

Old enough to kill means old enough to die

And did you ever stop to think that im old enough to go to war but i aint old enough to drink.

At some point people either had to throw off the wounds of their childhood or go through life permanently crippled

Sweetheart, I don't think there's going to be any pain, if that's what you're worried about. Now I'm no gynecologist, but you're thirty years old, and whatever barrier might have been there when you were a youngster has got to have evaporated from old age by now.

She was voluptuous, full-blown, past her prime, and he'd never wanted a woman more.

Children who are not encouraged to do, to try, to explore, to master, and to risk failure, often feel helpless and inadequate. Over-controlled by anxious, fearful parents, these children often become anxious and fearful themselves. This makes it difficult for them to mature. Many never outgrow the need for ongoing parental guidance and control. As a result, their parents continue to invade, manipulate, and frequently dominate their lives.

The arrogance of sixteen! If only I had retained it!

Maturity is largely about acquiring the confidence and the competence to make your own decisions.

The whole point of becoming an adult is to achieve self-reliance.

That was half the problem with kids these days. No responsibility.

We do not become different people as we age; we just add layers of experience onto who we already are.

guess our eyes don't change much from when we were young. Perhaps it's just how we see things that changes.

Doing what you can to move your part of the world closer to the way it should be, while never losing sight of the way it is, is what being a grown-upmcomes to.