Quotes About Maturity

The wise man does not grow old, but ripes.

Sophie was too old for lies and too young for the truth.

allow me to be an old man for a moment and to remind a young girl who is used to being impulsive that there can be none of that anymore.

There are always time in your life when you don't fit in. But you have to go forward and make a place for yourself. That's what growing up is all about. Being strong and believing in yourself-even when you're most afraid.

As I write, I am reminded of that passage from the Bible—the one that is read at every wedding: "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child." Now, I understand as an adult. Maybe for the first time in my life. This article would break my mother's heart, and perhaps even worse, her spirit. That didn't matter to me a week ago; in fact, I wanted to hurt her then. My only excuse: then I was a child.

People had called Isabelle impetuous for as long as she could remember. And then rash and, most lately, reckless. In the past year, she had grown up enough to see the truth of it. From earliest memory, she had acted first and thought about consequences later. Perhaps it was because she'd felt alone for so long. No one had ever been her sounding board, her best friend. She hadn't had someone with whom to strategize or work through her problems.

What a burden such a choice must be. For the first time, she saw her own childhood as an adult, from far away, with the wisdom this war had given her.

Ser jovem não nem nada a ver com amor. Uma mulher pode ser uma menina e ainda assim conhecer o próprio coração.

Isabelle sipped the brandy. Experience had taught

Woman must come of age by herself Ã¢â'¬Â¦ She must find her true center alone. —Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea

Poate ca asta e o problema fireasca atunci cand esti cu un tip mai in varsta. El este pregatit de aterizare cand tu abia decolezi.

Life changes you, even if you don't realize it while it's happening, and it turns out you can't take back the years that have passed by.

I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.

As a younger actor you want to be approved of, you want to gain respect, be admired. All of those things. To say: 'This is me playing this character. And aren't I fantastic!' I don't feel that so much now.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.

I think being an adult must be confusing as hell.

A baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.

To by?a sprawa ?ycia i ?mierci, a ona jest osob? kompetentn?. Nie jakim? mazgajem, nie dzieciakiem, ale osob? kompetentn?.

No little boy likes to be called a little man, but any little boy likes to be treated as a little man, and this is what Marian had done for me: at times, and when she had wanted to, she had endowed me with the importance of a grown-up; she had made me feel that she depended on me. She, more than anyone, had puffed me up.

Few know how to be old.

Old fools are greater fools than young ones.

I don't want to be a 'teen star' because so many people don't ever grow out of that.