Quotes About Maturity

I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.

When I turned 16, I thought I was a man. I needed the money. When you don't have it, crazy thoughts go through your mind.

Remember what being an adult is: It has nothing to do with money or awards.

Stealing money from your parents - I feel like I did that a lot and I now know as an adult that your parents knew how much money they had. Nobody was being fooled.

When I was young I thought money was the most important thing in life. Now that I'm old - I know it is.

You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it.

When one is grown up, money is lying about at one's service. It is only when one is young that it is rare. Take no thought for money - that always lies to hand.(Women in Love)

There really is no correlation between age and one's bank balance. I've met wealthy boys and broke men.

By the time a man is rich enough to sleep late he's too old to enjoy it.

In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.

As I get older, I use less jewelry - necklace or earrings each morning, not both; my clothes are getting more basic - fewer colours and simpler cuts; and my make-up is stripped back to basics.

You get more insight as you get older, on everything. I kind of woke up one morning and was like, 'Oh I see what's happening, I get everything'. I woke up and was like, 'I get it, I'm a product'.

Most things get better by themselves. Most things, in fact, are better by morning.

Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development.

Maturity is doing what you think is best, even when your mother thinks it's a good idea.

My mother always used to say: 'The older you get, the better you get, unless you're a banana.'

Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that supposed to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing.

My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.

My mother and I always had full adult communication.

[My favorite thing about motherhood is] that it's made me grow into a woman finally, and I finally grew up, thank God.

As my mother says, your forties are when you finally pay for your past mistakes, the cigarettes and sunburns, the Big Macs and smooth-talking men. She may be right.

A child embarrassed by his mother," she said, "is just a child who hasn't lived long enough.

In my own family, my mother had my sister when I was 15 and for various reasons, I was extremely involved in raising her.

Your daughter's coming of age, you ought to let her see the world a little.