Quotes About Maturity

Harrison Ford may be getting old, but he can fight like a 28 year old man.

I want the flower and fruit of a man; that some fragrance be wafted over from him to me, and some ripeness flavor our intercourse.

Forget the brother and resume the man.

Anything is possible in the life of a man if he lives long enough. Even maturity.

I'm quite an independent person, and I had to be. As a boy and growing into a young man I had to look out for myself. And now I'm very family-oriented. It's a big priority in my life.

Before a man's forty, girls cost nothing. After that you have to pay money, or tell a story. Of the two, it's the story that hurts most. Anyway I'm not forty yet.

Cursing herself, she said, "I'm going to man up here. I'm going to so be twenty-one. You're not going to believe how tight in the head I'm going to be. Really. For real.

There is no escaping, at times, the gloomy suspicion that fiddling with pens and ink is, after all, no fit employment for a grown man.

There are three stages to a man's life. 1. He laughs at Clark Griswold. 2. He sympathizes deeply with Clark Griswold. 3. He laughs at Clark Griswold.

As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him.

Charles, mate, you fret too much. I'm a grown man, I am, and I can blood my handle." "Handle your blood?" Bones offered dryly. Ian grinned. "Exactly.

I was a very naive young man, and I may still be ignorant about a lot of things.

We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.

A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of life span. In effect, the head of the house becomes the youngest child.

But you must give him some sign, some sign that you love him... or he'll never be a man. All his life he'll feel guilty and alone unless you release him.

Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting, the first in importance surely is man himself.

There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.

Teddy, Vern, Chris: I don't shut up. I grow up. And when I look at you, I throw up. Aghhh! Gordie: And then your mom goes around the corner and she licks it up.

You are your child's keeper until she's mature enough to keep herself.

One of the blessings of becoming an adult is finally seeing my mom and dad as people, not just parents.

There is a point when you aren't as much mom and daughter as you are adults and friends.

Being an older mom, I'm super mellow with my kids. Also, "curious" and "loving.

I still feel like a kid sometimes myself so hard to believe that I'm a mom. Now I'm an adult! It only took 38 years!

I've changed my life in a lot of ways. I'm a mom, a wife, and a Christian. Some of the things I expressed in my early 20s aren't what I care to express right now.