Quotes About Maturity

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

As time goes on you are given responsibility and other things to deal with. You become a husband and a father and there's another shirt of stuff.

Being a father helps me be more responsible... you see more things than you've ever seen.

Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.

I don't think I was all that late in becoming a father.

How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his boys, Whose youth was full of foolish noise.

We don't just change our minds, we change the way we see things. That's one reason I'm a better grandfather than I was a father.

My father has taught me all the tricks of the boys at an early age, which has made me very careful.

A guy's got to get a license to drive a Geo, but any doofus with a few good swimmers can be a father.

I'll try and be what he loves to call me, 'a little woman,' and not be rough and wild, but do my duty here instead of wanting to be somewhere else.

I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one... Then I thought he was a genus.

I think there comes a point in probably most father-son relationships where the son kind of starts becoming the parent.

My father described me as the oldest baby he'd ever seen. I apparently was very serious and reflective.

My father felt that children should make their own way.

The child is the father of man.

There aren't many fathers around here...If someone is old enough to father a child, he should be old enough to help bring it up.

I was 12 when my father passed, so I didn't have a father during my teenage years.

One of the unseen benefits of having children is that they deliver you from your own selfishness. There's no going back.

As a child I was middle-aged and cautious compared to my impulsive father.

Having been a father for 19 years I realise fatherhood has changed me.

My father and I, we finally saw each other eye to eye and I think he's seeing me as a man, and I'm seeing him as the father he's always been.

Anyway, my father became super-responsible. You know, he was the kind of person that absorbs all responsibility in the family, and then everybody else can act like a child in relation to him.

Healthy boys grow into healthy men.

When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he'd learned in three years.