Quotes About Maturity

Age can be wonderful for red wine, but not for spacecraft.

I've yet to meet a bitter teenager. Bitterness, jealousy and jadedness, I think, are the most unattractive qualities in a person, and unfortunately they do seem to come with age.

I associate wisdom and grace with age.

Don't bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I'm almost grown.

I'm fortunate that I've been in this business long enough that I've earned the right to be left alone by my record company.

As I get older I'm more and more comfortable being alone.

Most fruits, if left alone on a tree, eventually do ripen, especially if they're not being yelled at.

When you're older, you'll appreciate the advantages of sleeping alone.

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.

I was fifteen then, too young to fall in-love. Or maybe it is only then, with dew of childhood still in my eyes, that I was capable of such love. I will never know, of course.

Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them.

Anger and anger can not solve any problem.

I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.

No one becomes forty without incredulity and a sense of outrage.

All angry persons are to be treated, by the prudent, as children.

Adolescents need to be reassured that nothing-neither their growing maturity, their moods, their misbehavior, nor your anger at something they have done-can shake your basic commitment to them.

Anger is almost always an emotion for people who wish to control others while simultaneously failing to control themselves.

Getting even with somebody is no way to get ahead of anybody.

It seemed to us that we'd never thought of him before as a man who would die. He never had thought of himself in that way. Until that year, although he'd cursed his weakness and his age, he'd either ignored the idea of his death or had refused to believe in it. He'd only thought of himself as living.

One morning when he was about thirteen, Den and I were in the barn doing the before-breakfast chores. I was in the milking stall, Den in the driveway. He must have been thinking about Maury, for after a while he said, Dad, Maury Telleen is not very tall. Did you ever notice that? Yes, I said. And probably I was about to tell him he should mind his manners, but he wasn't finished. He said, But you never think of him as a little man. Did you ever notice that? Yes, I said. I have noticed that.

Whereas the Odyssey represents the maturity of the moral consciousness of a whole people, Huckleberry Finn shows only its beginnings in the mind of a child. And with a self-protective dexterity that would not have surprised Mark Twain in the least, the adult racist mentality of America has dealt with the threat of that beginning by decreeing that Huckleberry Finn is not a book for the chastening of adults, which to a large extent it certainly is, but a book for the entertainment of children.

You're too old for this type of living,' he told

In my youth, I should have chafed and fretted under the irritation of my own unreasonable state of mind. In my age, I knew better, and went out philosophically to walk it off.