Quotes About Maturity

I love them, but sometimes it would have been nice to be able to b e a kid who didn't have to act like an adult so much of the time. - Polly

In the end you learned to live with things once you stopped talking about them.

It was hard to reassure grown-ups when you weren't certain yourself what you were feeling and thinking—when thoughts dissolved before you could name them.

Grown-ups always seem to be worried about money, or politics, or just stuff that has physical presence. It's like somewhere along the way they lost the ability to think about what's inside them.

Maybe we are always all of our ages at once, like nesting matryoshka dolls?

Can anyone tell you when you're grown up?" Another

Or perhaps I'll learn the difference between a boy's dreams and a man's." He paused, and then said, "When I marry, my father will live again in my sons." He

The games had prepared Ruta for his future, and should have prepared me for mine, too. The manoeuvres had become riskier and more difficult, but maybe each was the same when you got down to it. Jumping had taught me how to jump, hadn't it? I only had to look at Ruta to know he wasn't a child any more. Neither was I. The

Guys are like dogs. You wish you could take them all home when they're young. But after they've howled all night and slobbered all over everything, you come to realize the ones already trained are much easier to live with.

Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated.

The Captain stepped into the stirrup and was proud of the fact that at age seventy-one he could step up from the ground onto a sixteen-hand horse. With some pain but no flinching he swung into the saddle.

I wouldn't fool with these people too much," Deaver said. "They are not toys or dolls that one can arrange their thoughts or minds as you wish, simply give them a change of costume. They are grown men and they are lethal." Jiles, Paulette. The Color of Lightning: A Novel (p. 184). HarperCollins e-books. Kindle Edition.

Part of growing up is developing a bullshit detector, and kids usually do a pretty fair job of wising each other up.

Tatiana realized she was too young to hide well what was in her heart but old enough to know that her heart was in her eyes.

Cuando se vive mucho tiempo, se aprenden muchas cosas

No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.

You're like a rebellious child! Huh? You always treat me like a kid, but you're a kid yourself!

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

you can't know the meaning of the lesson until class is over!

When you're young, there's a whole lot of stuff you say you'll never do. Once you get a little older, the list tends to get shorter.

Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult delinquents.