Quotes About Maturity

Geography! That's something they teach in the third grade! I never heard of a grownup studying geography.

The affair between Boston and Ted Williams has been no mere summer romance; it has been a marriage, composed of spats, mutual disappointments, and, toward the end, a mellowing hoard of shared memories. It falls into three stages, which may be termed Youth, Maturity, and Age; or Thesis, Antithesis, and Synthesis; or Jason, Achilles, and Nestor.

He sounds to himself, saying this, like an impersonator; life, just as we first thought, is playing grownup.

If I am through learning, I am through.

Lincoln himself once said, "The worst things you can do for those you love are the things they could and should do for themselves." He fiercely believed in self-sufficiency, and in the maturity and character that struggles and hardships can bring.

Growing old is unavoidable, but never growing up is possible. I believe you can retain certain things from your childhood if you protect them - certain traits, certain places where you don't let the world go.

I want to have the eyes of an adult to see the world as it is, but I more desperately want to have the heart of a child to make certain that I never forget what it could be.

As we grow older, it becomes difficult to just believe. It's not that we don't want to, but too much has happened and we can't.

Adults are just children who earn money.

Being an adult is the ability to postpone a want for the sake of a family need.

There's no way that moving in with your parents is a sign that your life is on track.

Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.

I don't want anyone as president who promises to take care of me. I may be stupid, but I want a chance to try to be a grown-up and take care of my family.

My family joke that I'm really a very senior person who accidentally happens to be 11.

When you are young nothing is more important than football but as you get older, you get married, have kids and lose people. Then you realise your family is more important. This comes with age.

I wish I had been more mature. I wish I had handled the immediate aftermath of the accident involving my family better.

The best thing to do is to behave in a manner befitting one's age. If you are sixteen and under try not to go bald.

In most states you can get a driver's license when you're sixteen years old which made a lot of sense to me when I was sixteen years old but now seems insane.

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

The Jewish man with parents still alive is a fifteen-year-old boy and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die.

Just when you think you should start accepting that you're becoming an adult, all your childhood fantasies come true.

Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost.

True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriend - and he accepts it

Be a father, if not, why bother, son? A boy can make 'em, but a man can raise one. If you did it, admit it and stick with it.