Quotes About Maturity

A boy spends his time finding a girl to sleep with. A real man spends his time looking for the one worth waking up to.

In 1797 a member of Congress argued that, while a liberal immigration policy was fine when the country was new and unsettled, now that America had reached its maturity and was fully populated, immigration should stop—an argument which has been repeated at regular intervals throughout American history.

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be. You are too young to know this. You are still becoming. Not being.

We think we grow old, we grow wise and more tolerant; we just grow more lazy.

My only plea is that all artists have to range the full extent of their own lives freely. The rest of the world can censor and bury their private past. We cannot, and so have to remain partly green till the day we die… callow-green in the hope of becoming fertile-green.

Aveam dou?zeci È™i cinci de ani, vârsta ta, Nicholas, asta-È›i poate spune mai mult decât orice cât eram de incapabil s?-l judec. Cred c? este vârsta cea mai dificil? È™i enervant?. Înseamn? a fi È™i a observa totodat?. EÈ™ti inteligent È™i considerat om în toat? firea. Unii te reduc la starea de adolescen??, pentru c? numai experienÈ›a poate s? înÈ›eleag? È™i s? asimileze.

He said, in some ways you're older than I am. You've never been deeply in love. Perhaps you never will be. He said, love goes on happening to you. To men. You become twenty again, you suffer as twenty suffers. All the dotty irrationalities of twenty. I may seem very reasonable at the moment, but I don't feel it. When you telephoned I nearly peed in my pants with excitement. I'm an old man in love. Stock comedy figure. Very stale. Not even funny.

But in those four minutes the boy before you has slipped through a door, hardly opened, into that great cage which never again quite lets a man go — the cage of the Law.

I'm at a point in my life where I will not be yelled at.

If he neglected Seth as an adult, it was because Seth had neglected him as a little boy. A child is not born with the tendency to neglect; it has to be acquired. Herschel learned from a master.

Part of being a good kid was learning to overlook the shortcomings of adults.

En un mundo superior puede ser de otra manera, pero aquí abajo, vivir es cambiar y ser perfecto es haber cambiado muchas veces.

To live is to change, and if you have lived long, you have changed often.

The Via Media has slept in libraries; it is a substitute of infancy for manhood.

Even as a grown-up, I love pretending to be a grown-up.

Single people who don't get pets in their twenties have to do other things to pretend they are grown-ups, like get married.

If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.

Ambition robs you of your childhood. The moment you want to become an adult—in any way—something in your childhood dies.

Let the grave mound grow a little grass, I always say; then it's safe to look.

If you live long enough, Bill - it's a world of epilogues, Richard Abbott said.

For a terrible time of life a teen-ager deceives himself; he believes he can trick the world. He believes he is invulnerable. An adolescent who is an orphan at this phase is in danger of never growing up.

Don't grown-ups ever get over things?

As a fourteen-year-old, he'd not been old enough to have sympathy for her—for either the child or the adult that she was.

Reading good novels can make young readers seem more experienced about relationships than they are.