Quotes About Maturity

At 17 I was earning money I didn't know how to handle and before I knew it I owed thousands to the taxman.

The older you get, of course, the knowingness of the truth - the ownership of knowing - is louder.

Some of us are better at owning the responsibility of our actions than others.

I never fully got to experience my childhood. I've spent a lot of time having to sort of grow myself up in many ways and also to sort of slow myself down and allow myself to live at the pace that I am.

I have closed that page of my life without rancor. I do not disown any of the work done.

If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.

Because one of the benefits of getting older, I guess-there are very few benefits, really - most of them are a pain in the butt. People depend on me more; they believe in me more, they think I'm good.

It's also very painful, because I feel, and I know, probably all women my age and older feel like we're better and have more to give and are more fun now.

I am much more understanding of people than I used to be when I was young - people were either villainous or wonderful. They were painted in very bright colours. The bad side of it - and there is a corollary to everything - is that when we get older, we fuss more. I used to despise people who fussed.

When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.

When we first started, we were best pals and we all got along great. As we got older, when the money started coming in, everyone changed in different ways.

You can't be seen in your mid-40s wearing leather pants. No leather pants anymore.

Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death.

If a man becomes more mature due to certain episodes in his life, it gives him the opportunity to look at life in a much more deep way. I believe the artist and the man work parallel, with the same feelings, the same soul, the same sensitivity.

Just because you become a parent doesn't mean you grew up.

I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.

We are not naughty children, and the state is not our parent.

After I started being able to grow a beard, I was obviously done at Disney - until I'm old enough to be a parent or an annoying older brother.

No parent or coach can be true to any child and say he's ready for the N.F.L. out of high school.

What I want is to have people's notion of adulthood no longer be so defined by being a parent. There is some kind of conventional wisdom that you're not really a mature person until you become a parent.

I have been a parent since I was 25. That's a large chunk of my adult life. Mother or father, it transforms you completely.

I think having four children made me a good mentor. As a parent, you get to know young people as they mature and grow up and to also learn about some of the difficulties they face.

As a parent, you just want to really make sure your kids understand what you are trying to say as much as their maturity level will allow them to.

I don't consciously think of how parenthood has changed me but I'm sure it must have.