Quotes About Maturity

What I was going for in the first two albums I didn't necessarily achieve. Because I was young and because it was my first time out. And the second album was such a 'quickie' sort of 'Let's just get it over with!' But the kind of music I make, there's a lot of subtlety in it. And I think it takes a couple of listens to actually really get it.

And did you ever stop to think that im old enough to go to war but i aint old enough to drink.

Just because you lost me as a friend, doesn't mean you gained me as an enemy. I'm bigger than that, I still wanna see you eat, just not at my table.

Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.

Somehow kids are supposed to match the levels of calm and composure we might find in mature forty-seven-year-olds. Estimates

Who you are at 20 will not be who you are at 40 and if it is, SOMETHING IS WRONG!

Take responsiblilty for yourself because no one's going to take responsibility for you.

Don't waste your youth growing up.

This is a youth-oriented society, and the joke is on them because youth is a disease from which we all recover

A baby-sitter is a teenager acting like an adult while the adults are out acting like teenagers.

Your son at five is your master, at ten your slave, at fifteen your double, and after that, your friend or your foe, depending on his bringing up.

Middle age is when you choose your cereal for the fiber, not the toy.

You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive.

The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe experience is a substitute for intelligence

The follies of youth become the vices of manhood and the disgrace of old age

You cannot inherit experience

A lot of times we are angry at other people for not doing what we should have done for ourselves. (responsibility)

Adolescence is the stage between infancy and adultery.

Do not regret growing older. It's a privilege denied to many.

EGO is the only requirement to destroy any relationship. So, be a BiGGER person, skip the E and let it GO

Grandma Harken was sharpening her garden shears. Her hands slowed on the file and she said finally, "He'll get in trouble and he'll figure it out. Best to do it without us standing over him. It's the only way anybody ever learns to clean up after themselves.

I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.

no one ever develops and achieves self-awareness in a vacuum, beyond all ears and systems. The period you grow up in and mature in always influences your thinking. This in itself requires no self-criticism. What is more important is how you have allowed yourself to be influenced, whether by good or by evil.

And anyway, no one ever develops and achieves self-awareness in a vacuum, beyond all eras and systems. The period you grow up in and mature in always influence your thinking. This in itself requires no self-criticism. What is more important is how you have allowed yourself to be influenced, whether by good or evil.