Quotes About Maturity

You can separate the men from the boys and ballads.

Disappointment came to me, and booted me, and bruised and hurt me, but that's how people grow up.

Ah, what shall I be at fifty, should nature keep me alive, if I find the world so bitter when I am but twenty-five?

No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have become strong do they put their heads above the ground.

There's no such thing as a grown up person.

As an artist grows older, he has to fight disillusionment and learn to establish the same relation to nature as an adult, as he had when a child

Grown men do not need leaders.

There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.

Nature does not demand that we be perfect. It requires only that we grow.

Failure seems to be nature's plan for preparing us for great responsibilities.

If you're short, don't wear extremely high heels. After a certain age, you shouldn't wear little girls' clothes. That's going against your nature.

Death is a stage in human progress, to be passed as we would pass from childhood to youth, or from youth to manhood, and with the same consciousness of an everlasting nature.

Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview.

It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.

I had been performing since I was 5, so it wasn't like I hadn't been on a stage before. I was always older than my age. That's my nature. I've always been a kind of mature kid.

Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assiduities of art, with which it would rear legitimate dulness to maturity; and to glory in the vigour and luxuriance of her chance productions.

Old age by nature is rather talkative.

It felt natural. That is what I remember most about becoming a father halfway through my 20s. As if Mother Nature was giving me the big thumbs up.

Don't reach for the halo too soon. You have plenty of time to enjoy yourself, even a little maliciously sometimes, before you settle down to being a saint.

The ripen fruit is for a sacred season.

Most of what is now "bitter" for our old nature is going to be useful for our nature

The nature of the kingdom must mature within you

No matter the nature of your individuality, you can nurture a better identity and have a mature positively rewarding life.

How do we still believe that human nature is not evil when 60 years old men rape 3 years innocent girls?