Quotes About Maturity

I tell you old and young are better than tired middle-aged, nothing is so dead dead-tired, dead every way as middle-aged.

I think 40 is a good age to run a country. But I've always been fast.

now I am capable of youth, but not capable of few years - that is the pitiful thing.

My age, my inclinations, are no longer what they were.

Age is rarely despised but when it is, contemptible.

It is rare, I think, for parents to let their children -- of any age -- grow up and become peers.

We all age. You shouldn't discount it as a subject for a film. Just because the characters are dealing with issues that you might not deal with for another 45 years doesn't mean you won't like it.

So, do I think I'm missing something? I really don't, and I think that comes with age.

Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.

What is private and what is discussed behind closed doors, you do not have to be instructed at the age of fifty or sixty or forty or whatever to not talk about it outside.

Age had taught him patience. Youth had taught me to get frustrated at the lack of progress.

When I turned 40, I was like, huh. I accept myself more now. It was much more comforting.

One needs only to get old to become milder; I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.

I felt, you know, body and soul, as it were. But, of course, I mean, I - at that age, I didn't think in terms of being professional. I didn't know anything about it. That happened later.

I have always believed that, in a story, if something traumatic or calamitous enough happens to a kid at a formative age, that will make him or her the adult they become.

Years do not make sages; they only make old men.

When I look at interviews from when I was that age, I come off different than how I am because I've matured - and I've matured, become a man in front of the public eye.

I was young for my age. Not as naïve as they expected. I don't know why I seem to bring that out in people.

It seemed at first that everybody was more concerned with my age.

And as I got older and played more, people began to forget about my age and took the music more seriously.

Age carries with it a double load of guilt.

I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.

I don't want to be made to look like I'm 25. I'm 39. I don't have any issues with my age.

It is the age that forms the man, not the man that forms the age.