Quotes About Maturity

I was a really bad kid. Then, I got sweet as I got older.

You want to be in control of a lot. You grow up. You sink or swim. I suppose I swam.

At some point, and maybe it's a function of age, you've had enough of it. You start to slide in other directions. A lot of comedy writers begin to turn the dial. With me, it was a switch. Comedy off. Drama on.

I have a fresh start, now that I've turned 18, which feels like such a symbolic age of independence and hopefully a new phase of my life.

Symbolism perhaps is a bit in your face, and I've tried my best to control that as best I can as I've grown older and thought that one could approach something with a little more subtlety.

I guess I feel I'm masquerading as an adult when I don't have the kind of friendships and routines that I thought you were supposed to have as an adult. It's the 'Friends' lied to me! syndrome.

When you're a young rebellious kid, you think you can beat the system, and when you grow up you realize you can't.

Being absolutely sure that one is right is part of growing up, and so is realizing, years later, that the truth might be more nuanced.

It is undeniable, that unions formed in the maturity of thought and feeling, and grounded only on inherent fitness and mutual attraction, tended to bring women into more intelligent sympathy with men,

The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius.

How did you get to be ten years old?" "One day at a time.

Happy the old people who after long experience and many trials reach this superior simplicity of true wisdom, which they had glimpsed from a distance in their childhood! With this meaning it can be said that a beautiful life is a thought of youth realized in maturity.

Life etches itself onto our faces as we grow older, showing our violence, excesses or kindnesses.

I'm 482 months old; can you tell I'm a new father?

A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product but an indication a person is prepared for life.

War doesn't mature men; it merely pickles them in the brine of disgust and dread. Pfui!

War doesn't mature men; it merely pickles them in the brine of disgust and dread.

I'm teaching you how to survive in a difficult world. You can't be under your parents' thumb forever. You have to take charge of your own life now you're going to be twenty-one.

I will not be bullied or dictated to. I'm not a child any more, and I'm prepared to make my own way and my own mistakes if necessary.

Teen movies often have an unspoken underlying premise in which high school is seen as less serious than the adult world. But when your head is encased in that microcosm it's the most serious time of your life.

So that was Jack's passage into manhood. He was dishonest with the girl he loved. Manhood means learning who you are.

For most parents, the true thank-yous come much later.

Lincoln Road that sorrow is most difficult for the young because it, "takes them unawares." The old, he said, have learned to anticipate difficulty. Lincoln wrote that sorrow is most difficult for the young because it, "takes them unawares." The old, he said, have learned to anticipate difficulty.

Our society tells young adult men to deprive themselves of God's provision for their physical, emotional, and sexual needs so they can remain as immature and self-absorbed as possible, for as long as possible. You know what the Bible says about this: it just is not good.