Quotes About Maturity

So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve.

Young he was not, so that one had to call him old, but the word did not suit him.

That's what therapy is for," Luc said. "No one's life is perfect. At some point you have to grow up and take responsibility for who you are and what you want.

There's nothing like being old to be sure of everything.

I wouldn't say that I dislike the young. I'm simply not a fan of naïveté.

Any child who cannot do long division by himself does not deserve to smoke.

Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.

There is no such thing as maturity. There is instead an ever-evolving process of maturing. Because when there is a maturity, there is a conclusion and a cessation. That's the end. That's when the coffin is closed.

I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and more free than he has had before.

Danielson was a talking head in his fifties

I wanted someone my equal, not someone who was not really grown up and needed looking after, and I was not likely to find another girl who was my equal and who shared my interests

People mature at different stages and I feel I'm learning a lot.

No man ever reaches manhood till a woman's tenderness Is a part of his possession.

Whether it was the stimulus of the radio, or simply that he was growing up, or both, he saw everything about him in a new way, as though he had managed to get a little distance off so that his sight wasn't blurred by being too close.

I feel more mature than most people my age.

I couldn't relate to kid stuff. 'Jimmy doesn't like me!' Who cares? I was worried we didn't have gas money or food. Those were my concerns.

Love ain't got no business happenin' to the young. Only the old be wise enough to treat it right.

Since I was about twenty-five, nothing changed, except I got smarter and wiser and things have an effect on you. But I never thought I was any older, really. It was just a very long twenty-five!

Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them.

Yo no sé si os habréis dado cuenta, pero a menudo las primeras impresiones son absolutamente equivocadas. Por ejemplo, puedes mirar un cuadro por primera vez y que no te guste nada, pero, después de mirarlo un rato, te puede parecer muy agradable. La primera vez que pruebas el queso gorgonzola te puede parecer demasiado fuerte, pero, cuando eres mayor, es posible que no quieras comer otra cosa que queso gorgonzola.

Moxie gave me a small smile. "Why do you always say that- which here means?" "I'll probably outgrow it," I said.

I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong. You can look at a painting for the first time, for example, and not like it at all, but after looking at it a little longer you may find it very pleasing. The first time you try Gorgonzola cheese you may find it too strong, but when you are older you may want to eat nothing but Gorgonzola cheese.

It's an important skill to know when not to say anything. It's not a skill that came naturally to me then, nor does it come naturally now, nor do I expect it to come naturally to me until I am dead, when I will be very, very good at it.

What Douglas had once seen as the attractive over-confidence of youth, now looked more like unyielding selfishness.