Quotes About Maturity

There is nothing wrong with today's teenager that twenty years won't cure.

Learning how to operate a soul takes time.

Time gives good advice. (El tiempo da buen consejo.)

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driving license age than at voting age.

Many women are more attractive at fifty than they were at twenty-five; and if their personality has been developed and enriched by the passing years, they may be more charming at sixty than they were at thirty.

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and a definite hardening of the paragraphs.

The best surgeon is he that has been well hacked himself.

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of twelve and seventeen, for example, a parent ages as much as twenty years.

You can tell a child is growing up when he stops asking where he came from and starts refusing to tell where he is going.

My favorite thing about girl power is that over time it turns into woman power.

The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

The nicest thing about coming of age is that I can do whatever I like.

Beauty exists at every age. It's not about youth and perfection.

I was born with an extremely negative attitude. I was the kid who wouldn't smile in Christmas photos, was a poor sport, and hated a lot of things. I eventually grew out of my negativity when I matured.

People who retain their childish attitudes will rarely be able to hold on to the success they may achieve through their talent.

I had an attitude problem when I was a kid. I'm not gonna lie.

"What's that line from T.S. Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up."

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy.

All sorts of reflections of this nature passed through my mind—for as I grow older I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me...

Looking back on his adolescence from the vantage point of his mid-eighties, George H.W. Bush candidly admitted, "I might have been obsessed with bodies – boobs they are now called. But what seventeen-year-old kid was not? Guilty am I.

Thank the people who wronged you for the lessons in life

Words and form! We have a totally clear view of the world when we're fourteen years old, maybe sooner. But then we need another fifty years in order to create a language that can express those impressions. And in the mean time, of course, they've faded away.