Quotes About Maturity

We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.

Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done.

Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred.

As you get older you have more respect and empathy for your parents. Now I have a great relationship with both of them.

You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self.

Rayner avait sans doute une dizaine d'années de plus que moi. Ce qui ne pose en soi aucun problème. J'entretiens des relations chaleureuses, sans bras cassés, avec quantité de personnes de cet âge.

Next time I will ... From now on I will ... What makes me think I am wiser today than I will be tomorrow

To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely.

The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

The essential passions of the heart have found a better soil in which it may attain it's maturity; remain under less restraint and extended into it's natural state

I think The Lord of the Rings is in itself a good deal better than The Hobbit , but it may not prove a very fit sequel. It is more grown up—but the audience for which The Hobbit was written has done that also. The readers young and old who clamoured for 'more about the Necromancer are to blame, for the N. is not child's play. Letter 35 To [Publishers] C. A. Furth, Allen & Unwin

That spot on the road was the place where he had ceased to be a boy.

He was blaming her for being sick, and she kept repeating, 'I'm forty, do you hear? I'm forty and I've been through enough. I'm forty, it was too much.

Older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.

Babies are tedious. Kids only start to become human on their fifth birthday.

He studied Arch Gowrie now. The man was big and fiftyish and probably attractive to women in that way older men could be.

As time's gone on, I've probably become a lot more like him...

When I was eighteen, I got my girlfriend pregnant—she was still in the tenth grade—and, looking for a way to support my daughter, trying to do the responsible thing

The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.

Laziness - The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.

Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.

An old fool is worse than a young one: For the young may always grow wise. (Zohair)

Much travel is needed before the raw man is ripened.

Un día, el lobezno se convertirá en lobo, aunque se haya criado entre los hijos del hombre.