Quotes About Maturity

A man, to use an old-fashioned phrase, of some twenty-eight summers, he gave the impression at the moment of having experienced at least that number of very hard winters

We don't grow older we grow riper.

When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid.

On devient jeune à soixante ans. Malheureusement, c'est trop tard

The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.

It takes a long time to become young

Life is a sandwich of activity between two periods of bed-wetting

I don't really think any of us are women right when we turn eighteen, or even twenty-one for that matter. You have to live a little. I certainly tried to do that.

When your crow's-feet begin to creep over your cheekbones, you are too old to be out after midnight more than twice a week. Also: If you love one man, don't flirt and drink with another. It's not rocket science

Rivers thought how misleading it was to say that the war had 'matured' these young men. It wasn't true of his patients, and it certainly wasn't true of Burns, in whom a prematurely aged man and a fossilized schoolboy seemed to exist side by side. It did give him a curiously ageless quality, but 'maturity' was hardly the word.

Because our nation is stupid and Hollywood is coarse, there is no one to tell us of the deep and extraordinary beauty of older women. I now see them all around me and am filled with a fierce joy that one of them has come to live in my house.

I take account of my life and find that I have lived a lot and learned very little.

It's politics . . . It makes everybody stupid. When you grow up, you'll know what I mean.

realized his wounds had enhanced his manhood and his own sense of himself.

I became a good writer when I saw the age of forty coming at me

I wish you were small again, so I could hold you in my arms and comfort you. But you are grown, and you know that for some things there is no comfort.

Oh...if you were older...It is not a bad thing, itself, but it is a bad thing to be used by men, to have them choose what you must be, and what you must not be, to have little choice in your life. If you were older, you could choose your own way.

When first we met, I thought you foolish, inept, and too gullible to work for the Master of the City. But you have grown shrewd, crafty as a cat in your dealings with the Mithrans." It didn't sound like a compliment but I didn't react.

I'm still an old pearl in a new oyster.

and thought how embarrassing Mabel's girlish enthusiasms had become. To look 60 and behave as if you were 16 was a social tragedy.

Remember, you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry.

I told her how proud I was, now that she was growing up and had her very own job to do

He is nothing but a boy—a little boy!" I am afraid I have visualized you as a man.

You were not born with judgment. That comes only with experience