Maturation Quotes

The faces of your young people in general are not interesting—I don't mean the children, but the you...

Courage was not something one picked out of the air. It was something like a bank account. You could...

Not every story started off big enough to notice.

Women did what strawberry plants did before they shot out their thin vines: the quality of the green...

It's a complex song, and it's fascinating to watch the creative process as they went back and forth ...

Make wisdom human to the adolescent mind.

A man is as old as his arteries and as young as his ideas.

I was only 44, which is childhood philosophy.

Thus we arrive at the problem of the relation of religion to the negation of sexual desire. Sexual d...

Nations as well as men require time to learn, whatever may be their intelligence or zeal.

She was torn between her customer service training and her youthful certitude.

Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading...

Youth and age touch only the surface of our lives.

I work pretty hard for a sufficient living, and therefore – yes, I do well.

Apprehension of a painful or disagreeable recognition made me tremble. I am confident that it took n...

They ran their heads very hard against wrong ideas, and persisted in trying to fit the circumstances...

In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothin...

He was experienced enough to spot the downside of doing the right thing.

The author defines professionalism as exemplified by his subjects in their mutual unwillingness to t...

How do you teach a classroom of Sybils who are breaking apart and reforming right in front of you?

Abilene had gone from boomtown to Bible Belt, from whorehouses to schoolmarms, without any of the in...

Universities, he (William Dershowitz) says, have been absorbed into the commercial ethos. Instead of...

if you do not share the universities' values, it could be a big mistake to send your children to col...

I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully.

He was not at all what is called ‘a character’. He was an innocent, affable old man who had somehow ...

What delicious abandon in the sleep of the child. Where do we lose it?

The Atreides are known to start late getting there growth.

He's taking the change well?" She asked.Except for getting a bit overtired. He's excited, but what 1...

As long as my Duke remains unmarried some of the Great Houses can still hope for alliance.

Let the young soul survey its own life with a view of the following question: ‘What have you truly l...

When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business – that the world is spread out expressly a...

The military was providing him (George H.W. Bush) with an education that was not available at Andove...

Nietzsche tended to equate the memorable with the painful.

Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue.

It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist.

Desire for and delight in God's Word are inseparable.

Desire for and delight in God's Word are inseparable.

Desire for and delight in God's Word are inseparable.

Desire for and delight in God's Word are inseparable.

It is only when you suffer that you truly understand.

No one can become and remain a theologian unless he is compelled again and again to be astonished at...

Lily appeared, wearing her nightclothes, in the doorway. She gave an impatient sigh. 'This is certai...

This anxiety to keep his father from anger was wearisome to him.

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom when the passions relax their hold, then, as Sophocles...

He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age. But to him who is of an o...

The fact is, man has never stayed by a single ideal. The mass enthusiasm when you were young gave wa...

The Mother Thing makes our world.

More depended on the student than on the school.

Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see...

Better to wait actively than passively.