Quotes About Maturity

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to succeed before he is ready. —D. MARTYN LLOYD-JONES

Yeah, and by the way? How much does it suck that I'm an adult if I kill somebody, and not if I want a beer?

It's bad enough I have to be trapped in a car with you children. You'll do your best not to act like children.

she was only eighteen." "Old enough to vote, fuck, and know better

Rough company," Dario said. "Unsuitable for an innocent flower like you." "You sound like my uncle. One can be innocent and not be ignorant, after all.

I don't think it's a matter of ready-I mean, not in an all-the-way sense. You're never completely ready-you just get to the point where you're ready enough.

And I honestly like her about twenty times more now than I did when we were dating. But love needs to have a future.

Is it PG-13 time?

as things turned out her choice had been happy, for seldom had two people loved more than they did; they loved with an ardour undiminished by time; as they ripened, so their love ripened with them.

People think power makes them big, but it brings out their inner bratty child and makes them small. - Grady Adams - Breathless by Dean Koontz pg 287 chapter 59

Eventually he understood that he was crying for himself. He was ashamed of the man whom he had become, mourning the man whom he had expected to be when he'd been a boy.

Chronologically she is twelve but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still.

That's what life's all about: little by little, day by day, with excruciating stubbornness, each of us learning how to be less screwed up.

If an eighty-six-year-old woman has been clear-seeing from a young age, she will have gone through a lot of life developing a keen eye for snares and pitfalls, an ear for deceit, and a good nose for knavery. And by such an age, a smart woman with no illusions is one to whom courage comes far more readily than it does to those young people who don't yet know the world for what it is.

as a junior, he graduates with the senior class

We grow, we change, we labor to maturity, to what little wisdom we might ever acquire, but always in the mirror is who we were as well as who we are, a harking back and, yet again, a quiet reckoning.

Who is more foolish—the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? —MAURICE FREEHILL

I didn't want him to think I was all that young, meaning too young for Sharona

If an eighty-six-year-old woman has been clear-seeing from a young age, she will have gone through a lot of life developing an eye for snares and pitfalls, an ear for deceit, and a good nose for knavery. And by such an age, a smart woman with no delusions is one to whom courage comes far more readily than it does to those young people who don't yet know the world for what it is.

Funny how time scrubs away such agony, weathering it through the years, like water rushing over rocks gradually smooths away the sharp, painful edges.

As soon as you notice your first wrinkle and your first white hair, sigh with ease. You are well on your way to becoming who you always wanted to be." VÉRONIQUE VIENNE French journalist Christophe, who's had many amorous experiences on both sides of the Atlantic, sums it up this way: "French women are more comfortable being naked than American women.

As soon as you notice your first wrinkle and your first white hair, sigh with ease. You are well on your way to becoming who you always wanted to be." VÉRONIQUE VIENNE

The harsh light above them caught her face, and Sean could see what she'd look like when she was much older - a handsome woman, scarred by wisdom she never asked for.

The lines in her face were deep enough to hide gravel in.