Quotes About Maturity

Marriage is such a mark of adulthood in my mind.

I got married way too young.

Sophie said a bad word. In the dim light she had stubbed her toe on one of the many dusty bricks piled around the place. Naughty-naughty Twinkle said. Oh shut up! Sophie said , standing on one leg to hold her toe. Why don't you grow up?

Boys do not leave their boyhood behind when they leave off their school uniform.

So they became friends, the way old married couples often do, and enjoyed the tender loyalty that awaits the lucky on the other side of passion, without ever living the passion itself.

She was too old to be young and other women her age had been crossed off the list of women suitable for appraisal

Though children are capable of great cruelty. Only we do not like to think it of them.

Freedom is a school of responsibility for human beings.

there is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means.

Simon: You always were wise beyond your years. Cassandra: No I wasn't. I used to be consciously naive.

I am not so sure I should like the facts of life, but I have got over the bitter disappointment I felt when I first heard about them, and one obviously has to try them sooner or later.

No perfection... more experience. As soon as you reach perfection it is not perfect anymore because you want to try something different.

I was always younger than anyone around me. One day it began to change.

Find someone to push him ever sunward. There's always something you're not supposed to see but it is a condition of growing up that you will see it.

Meredith was not so secure in her maturity that she did not suffer those periods of despondency and doubt which seemed to weave through the lives of self-reliant women.

Someday you'll be a grown-up ... and then your mother will have no one to talk to.

What do you think the afterlife is, a body of facts just waiting to be uncovered? Do you think the U.S. Air Force is secretly gathering data on the afterlife and keeping it under wraps because we're not mature enough to accept the findings? The findings would cause a panic? No. I'll tell you what the afterlife is. it's a sweet and terribly touching idea. You can take it or leave it.

How old were you when you first realized your father was a jerk?" "Twelve and a half," Grappa said.

Once you're a made man, you don't need the constant living influence of sources outside yourself.

adults forget how difficult that task was.

My criticism was that you never understood the larger picture, said the Dead Father. Young men never understand the larger picture. -I don't suggest I understand it now. I do understand the frame. The limits. -Of course the frame is easier to understand. -Older people tend to overlook the frame, even when they are looking right at it, said Thomas. They don't like to think about it.

When I was nineteen, I told a thirty- year-old man what a fool I had been when I was seventeen. 'We were always,' he said glancing down, 'a fool two years ago.

Reality is like fine wine: it does not appeal to children.

Reality is like a fine wine," he said to me. "It will not appeal to children.