Quotes About Maturity

'Polytechnique' changed everything in my way of working. I became an adult, really, during those five years. I didn't work on anything else but 'Polytechnique.'

It feels like as you get a bit older, you've worked out the things that are good for your life apart from with acting.

The older I get, the more I accept and appreciate myself.

I appreciate and enjoy my age.

I never felt that my life was not complete without a child. I don't know if that, as a younger man, I'd have had full appreciation for it.

Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.

If you disapprove of violence, then you can't think there is any age when violence is appropriate.

You know I was always looking out for age appropriate roles.

My favorite artists are the ones that I can take their eight or ten albums, and I can see the arc of their life.

I feel as though I came to music with something to say. It wasn't like that when I was younger. I didn't have the ability to articulate what it was I wanted to say.

Los filósofos han observado que las costumbres de la edad temprana retornan con fuerza en la vejez del hombre. Séchard confirmaba esta ley moral: cuanto más envejecía, más le gustaba beber.

Quand son fils devint grand, il le mena chasser pour qu'il contractât cette sauvagerie de langage, cette rudesse de manières, cette force de corps, cette virilité dans le regard et dans la voix qui rendaient à ses yeux un homme accompli." In L'enfant maudit Cité par Lucile Peytavin dans Le coût de la virilité

Llega un momento, en la vida interior de las familias, que los hijos, voluntaria o involuntariamente, se convierten en jueces de sus padres

So verbringt man einen guten Teil seines Lebens damit, auszujäten, was man in der Jugend in seinem Herzen hat wachsen lassen. Diese Operation nennt man: Erfahrungen machen,

I needed someone to tell me it was all right to feel the anger and despair, but I received only kudos for my synthetically mature, responsible behavior.

I would not have borne this in my hot youth when Plancus was consul.

Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.

Hablaron de cosas muy triviales, con perfecta discreción de personas maduras.

echó afuera esa imperiosa necesidad de culpar a los otros, que es patrimonio específico de los corazones inferiores.

Either you get a chance to be a kid when you are a kid, or you don't grow up.

You seem damn sure of yourself for a man your age?" "I am as old as I can be at my age. I don't know very much, but I know the water.

The mark of spiritual maturity is not how much you understand, but how much you use. In the spiritual realm, the opposite of ignorance is not knowledge but obedience.

At a certain age men began to shrink, and yet it was precisely at that age that their trousers became too short for them.

Sometimes there is only a sixty-second divide between youth and maturity, childhood and adulthood, strength and weakness, life and death. That life is vulnerable is the key to its longevity.