Quotes About Maturity

I'm not a kid anymore. And I'm excited for all the amazing things to come.

One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it was completely different from what you had always believed. (Bone Crossed)

A man learns with age, if he is lucky.

The older you are, the more you fear change, even if you think you're in charge. Especially if you think you're in charge. (Adam)

Leslie absorbed that. "If that's so, I peg our Anna at sixteen and her husband at ten thousand and change.

By the time a person was my age, they should know that life isn't fair and quit pretending that it ought to be.

When you're sixteen, sometimes you need the adults in the room to step in.

Healthy pain invites healing. Gabriel is a good boy; he'll be a good man. Not all relationships that end

One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it was completely different from what you had always believed.

Some people are boys longer than others.

It was really hard too, because I always had a lot of feeling. You know, when I was little I used to pray to God that I'd grow up fast so I wouldn't feel anymore

I want most of all for you to forgive Grandfather. I want you to forgive Grandfather so I can grow up and be just like you.

In my old age, I was at last being permitted to make the discovery that lovemaking gets better and better with time, if it's with someone you care for.

We can't go back, Alexa", he said. " We can't go back once we've started growing up, and the world can't be made simple again.

We can't go back once we've started growing up, and the world can't be made simple again.

There is nothing more tragic in my mind than to see the Christian with arrested development. He knows Christ, he knows the power of God, and he has the power of the Spirit living within him, yet he remains an infant. He is like the seed that Jesus talked about, that fell into the ground, sprouted, but is choked out by the cares of this world.

I, for one, find it difficult to picture adolescent Jesus looking up suddenly one day from a page of Job or Chronicles and exclaiming, "Wow, what an insight! That really does make sense!" Jesus was not "working out" a religious theory. He was taking possession of his own identity.

For despite his confidence, and his apparent maturity, I suspected that there was in him a deep and childish need to elevate, and idealize, the love object. This is not uncommon in artists. The very nature of their work, the long periods of isolation followed by public self-display, and the associated risk of rejection all conspire to create unnaturally intense relationships with their sexual partners. Then, when disillusion occurs, as of course it must, the sense of betrayal is profound...

You went up a girl and came down a woman.

It's too early for you to have grown up this much.' 'Yeah, well, sometimes you don't have a choice.

I am Todd Hewitt, I think to myself with my eyes closed. I am twelve years and twelve months old. I live in Prentisstown on New World. I will be a man in one month's time exactly.

Smart boys make useless men.

I wonder if realizing you're not sure about stuff is what makes you a grown up?

Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.