Quotes About Maturity

One can't feel old in a day or overnight!

I was a serious kid to an absurd degree. I was overwhelmed with responsibility. You know, trying to play grown up. I overdid it.

He was the kind of man who grew better looking the longer you knew him. Whereas Jesse began to tarnish the moment you took him off the shelf.

Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of.

I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.

Adolescence is a skin we never quite shed.

I've matured. I have a much higher tolerance for boredom.

When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you've always got a different ache or pain.

Meditó durante la hora de Reafirmación de Género para Mujeres Maduras, ninguna de las cuales necesitaba que le enseñaran a reafirmarse a sí misma. De hecho se reafirmaban tan estupendamente que lo único que tenía que hacer Wilt era dejar que hablaran.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.

You're only as old as you . . . Just face it, you're old.

Early in the ministry of the apostle Paul, he called himself the least of the apostles. Later on he said he was the least of all Christians. Then he said he was the chief of sinners. The older he got, the more he saw of God, the lower he became in his own estimation.

You are ready to date and marry when you are becoming the person that your ideal mate is praying about meeting.

Joy is an outward sign of inward faith in the promises of God. It is a way of acting, and it is evidence of spiritual maturity. Joy is not a distant destination at which you arrive; rather, it's a path you choose to travel each day.

Dating is different when you get older. You're not as trusting, or as eager to get back out there and expose yourself to someone.

Learning still, Old Wife, learning still." "But ain't learned to quit casting a voluptuous eye on the young mens, I notice," chirping her teeth. "When you gonna learn, you ole stick in the mud, that 'good' ain't got nothing to do with it? They packed me off to seminary thinking helping and healing and nosing around was about being good. It was only that I was Ã¢â'¬Â¦ available.

Some things we must learn through experience. That is how one truly lives.

Some things we must learn through experience. That is how one truly lives." -Rovender

The generation that had grown up with R.E.M. in the Eighties, that had enthusiastically shared and applauded the maturity of Out of Time and Automatic for the People , many of whom had stuck around for Monster , was ready now to move on. Not to new artists, but to their home mortgages, car payments, and children's birthday parties.

He has grown older, the skin around his eyes is cobwebbed with fine creases, and his hair's thinner, softer, suffused with gray. His brow has grown smoother.

The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up.

Love is what's left when being in love has gone, okay? It's when you care about someone and you hope they're happy, but you're not under any illusions about them. Maybe that kind of love is not exciting and passionate and all those things that fade with time. All those things that you're so keen on. But in the end it's the only kind of love that really matters.