Quotes About Maturity

He was always a little boy, and I am upset that I didn't look after him, upset that there are so many kids who never get looked after, and so they can't grow up. They can get older, but they can't grow up. That takes love. If you are lucky the love will come later. If you are lucky you won't hit love in the face.

He was always a little boy, and I am upset that I didn't look after him, upset there are so many kids who never get looked after, and so they can't grow up. They can get older, but they can't grow up. That takes love. If you are lucky the love will come later. If you are lucky you won't hit love in the face.

La jeunesse est le temps d'étudier la sagesse; la vieillesse est le temps de la pratiquer.

Sors de l'enfance, ami, revéille-toi!

Hasta entonces me había hablado de mí solo, como a un niño; desde aquel momento empezó a tratarme como a un hombre, y me habló de sí misma. Me

Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!

The wisest writers devote themselves to what a man ought to know, without asking what a child is capable of learning. They are always looking for the man in the child, without considering what he is before he becomes a man.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

There is quite another class of exceptions: those so gifted by nature that they rise above the level of their age. As there are men who never get beyond infancy, so there are others who are never, so to speak, children, they are men almost from birth. The

If you want to be treated like a mother," I said, "you should act like one.

I'm a grown woman now," Mom said almost every morning. "Why can't I do what I want to do?

Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women.

The work keeps getting deeper, more honest. I continue to work on a piece until I feel it breathe on its own.

I never had to say to myself, 'OK now, I've got to grow up and work for a bank, or go and sell real estate.' I never had to make that kind of break.

Today's child is growing up absurd, because he lives in two worlds, and neither of them inclines him to grow up. Growing up--thatis our new work, and it is total. Mere instruction will not suffice.

I have wisdom of a 60-year-old. Also it takes a lot for me to respect a person, so when a person has a body of work behind him, it draws my respect.

I always thought of myself as a later bloomer, so I like some of my work more later than earlier.

Until the juice ferments a while in the cask, it isn't wine. If you wish your heart to be bright, you must do a little work.

A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportunity to be a child, so they hold on to that and still do a lot of childish, silly things.

Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore.

You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.

[Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.

Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn't going to work.

For me, what's wonderful for me at this stage of my life is that I get to work with people I've admired for a long time.