Quotes About Maturity

IF YOU ARE a parent, you know the following to be true: Even though your child has grown into adulthood, you never see the man or the woman; you see only the little boy or the little girl.

But please don't be taken aback. Age is not kind, and it leaves a mean stamp on an elderly man's perceptions.

Unfortunately, at a certain age, wanting something you can't be or wanting what you can't have can become a way of life.

This is what happens when a boy becomes a man. You get stupider.

You've got to be strong to get old.

He saw now she was not just handsome, but rather had a quiet, cumulative beauty. She was a tall woman, middle-aged, whose face was not etched with the stern lines of church folks who've seen too much and done little about it other than pray.

There was a time when that kind of thing looked like the kingdom of heaven, but somewhere along the line it had lost its glow. Maybe that was just the cost of growing up. And maybe the cost of growing up was too high.

Anne Frank wrote, 'How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

I navigate through the world with the excitement and determination of a child. That's why I'm an artist. I'd die without an outlet for expression. Unfortunately, more often than not, that childlike energy is the maturity level I bring to many circumstances.

You grow up however, unfortunately, as the college years fly by, into a very exaggerated sense of your own capacities.

I look 10 years younger than I am. Unfortunately, sometimes I act like I'm 10 years old.

I'm a very serious person. Unfortunately, sometimes.

I don't believe in men who make us feel unhappy, because they're boys, not men.

I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

My history has been to grow the roots as deeply as you can before going on to the next thing. That's why it took 10 years to go from Union Square Cafe to Gramercy Tavern, and another 10 years to go from Blue Smoke's first location to its second, and five to go from Shake Shack 1 to Shake Shack 2.

Peoplehood tends to develop into nationhood if the people achieves a certain maturity. This is analogous to an individual person who becomes acquainted with herself only in the course of her life, without being able to say that she possessed no personal uniqueness at all before that 'self-recognition.'

Kids don't shuffle along in unison on the road to maturity. They slouch toward adulthood at an uneven, highly individual pace.

When you're in a young band for the first time, geographically you're in the same place and you tend to go out and socialize. You play more shows, you spend more time together. You're a unit. As you grow older, inevitably you develop a life outside the band. I think it would be tragic if you didn't.

At United, they teach me about things off the pitch as well, how to deal with stuff with your family and how to be a man. That part is very important, not just the football side but off the pitch as well.

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.

At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.

The teenage years are such a great subject because everything is heightened and on the surface, and it deals with universal emotions that we face even as we get older.

I guess real maturity, which most of us never achieve, is when you realize that you're not the center of the universe.

I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.