Quotes About Maturity

It's never too late to have a happy childhood, and age only matters if you're a cheese.

I think age is terribly overrated. You're okay as long as you don't grow up. By all means grow old, but don't mature. Remain childlike, retain wonder, the ability to be flabbergasted by something.

I don't need glasses, but I've just reached the age where curiosity is greater than vanity.

In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.

Live in such a way, that if someone speaks badly of you no one would belive it. Playing dress-up begins at age five and never truly ends.

I don't think I've gotten any smarter, but your reflexes slow down before you do something stupid when you're older.

It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

Obviously from childhood to my teenage years, I really came into my own. I left the house early; I was on the streets when I was, like, 15. I've been holdin' my own since that age.

Some things get better with age. Like me.

It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.

There's nothing good about being my age.

We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.

When does the loneliness of old age begin?

Integrity is not something that grownups have and adolescents can aspire to. Integrity is something that all of us, at all ages, are constantly striving for.

A person remains immature, whatever his age, as long as he thinks of himself as an exception to the human race.

I'm going to lower the drinking age to eighteen. If you're old enough to die in Iraq, you're old enough to drink.

People say, "Age is just a number." A lot of times it's not just a number. It's actually a real and true sign of someone's maturity. But in this case, she's fantastic.

I dainty little lass I wasn't. I looked twice my age until I turned 10 or 11.

The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them - thus preserving the system.

Old age is second childhood.

To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.

The young are of age when they twitter like the old; they are driven through school to learn the old song, and, when they have this by heart, they are declared of age.

We tend to think of age only in time, but I don't think it has much to do with time at all there's a whole load of other things. I've met 16-year-olds who are old and 90-year-olds who are young.

I'm the same age as my tongue and a little bit older than my teeth.