Maturity Quotes

Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.

Fitting in is about assessing a situation and becoming who you need to be to be accepted. Belonging,...

Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be ...

You see, I don't think age matters so much as people think. Parts of me are still 12 and I think oth...

When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing s...

I assumed my first undivided responsibility.

She was intelligent enough to realize that her excitement was childish, but not mature enough to car...

What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to ...

The only time "early bloomer" has ever been applied to me is vis-a-vis my premature apprehension of ...

When you're in your twenties in a new city where no one's from here, we're all sort of orphans. The ...

Hand, nobody told me about the weight. Why didn't our parents tell us about the weight?—What weight?...

(William) Deresiewicz offers a vision of what it takes to move from adolescence to adulthood. Everyo...

People with character are capable of long obedience in the same direction, of staying attached to pe...

Pretending”,' she looked at the garden, 'is not the truth.''But you said two true things, right ? On...

Chronologically she is twelve but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still.

The author likens crisis, and particularly war, to stop motion photography in its capacity to make c...

Growing up is after all only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what e...

You simply don't get to be wise, mature, etc., unless you've been a raving cannibal for thirty years...

Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things wi...

the much-sought prize of eternal youthIs just arrested growth.

I will come back to you, I swear I will;And you will know me still.I shall be only a little tallerTh...

Grown men do not need leaders.

At thirty a man suspects himself a fool;Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan;At fifty chides his ...

To be mature you have to realize what you value most... Not to arrive at a clear understanding of on...

I would like to be like Rome when I am an old lady.

The red firelight glowed on their two bonny heads and revealed their faces, animated with the eager ...

Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved." Mature love follows the principle...

For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the w...

Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the pen...

Grow up and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one child...

each year, she finds her friendships less volatile and easier, because she increasingly succeeds at ...

In our folk nobody has any experience of youth, there’s barely even any time for being a toddler. Th...

When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best...

Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begi...

You don't learn to hold your own by standing on guard but by attacking and getting well hammered y...

He sat watching what went forward with the quiet outward glance of healthy old age.

She tried so hard to be brave, to be fierce as a wolverine and all, but sometimes she felt like she ...

The willingness to forgive is a sign of spiritual and emotional maturity. It is one of the great vir...

There's truths you have to grow into.

It’s hard to have done all one’s growing up since 33 — but that’s a damn sight better than not growi...

I mean it takes a certain kind of maturity to live in the South these days.

If a man does not keep pace with hiscompanions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. ...

When a tree is polled, it will sprout new shoots nearer its roots. A soul that is ruined in the bud ...

I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or c...

What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the s...

But I knew it was pure masturbation, because down in my gut I wanted nothing more than a clean bed a...

Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily mis...

Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.

To be a man, a boy must see a man.

When I was a child I truly loved:Unthinking love as calm and deepAs the North Sea. But I have lived,...

Why are you making no more songs?' I said to him in a tone like that. 'Why are you making no more so...

...You are a little boy. You want the moon to drink from as a golden cup; and so, it is very likely ...

I am sifting my memories, the way men pan the dirt under a barroom floor for the bits of gold dust t...

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we shou...

The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds t...

Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why o...

Lately, when I didn't have room to bitch, I didn't. Maturity, at last.

I'd date someone younger or older; age doesn't matter to me. Or looks, really - it's all about matur...

They stared at her curiously, and she caught snatches of conversation in two or three languages. It ...

You are never too old to become younger!

Stop thinking like Alice in Wonderland, Celia told herself sternly. You're a grown-up, it's no use s...

Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully bec...

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it...

Can you ever "solve" disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes? Hell no. All you can ...

... It is immensely moving when a mature man - no matter whether old or young in years - is aware of...

If you happen to be white in a white country; pretty according to the dictates of fashion; rich in a...

Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young ...

I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that gr...

Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties.

Eventually we come to know and understand a lot of things, but it's too late, because a whole life h...

I also think of those daily slaughters along the highways, of that death that is as horrible as it i...

The boy was growing bored and this was a form of growing up.

I had ceased to be a writer of tolerably poor tales and essays, and had become a tolerably good Surv...

A patient willingness to defer dividends is a hallmark of individual maturity.

It would mark the end of a year that he might look back on as hands, a pivot between two lines. Or n...

I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, ...

Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God. ...

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements - as well as one's deepest failures - i...

The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.

MaturityA stationary sense . . . as, I suppose,I shall have, till my single body grows        Inaccu...

It's funny: one starts off thinking one is shrinkingly sensitive & intelligent & always one down & a...

The best way to get kids to read a book is to say: 'This book is not appropriate for your age, and i...

That’s the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to sc...

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my su...

How they are all about, these gentlemenIn chamberlains' apparel, stocked and laced,Like night around...

There's a difference, you know, between faith and playing make-believe. One will make you grow. The ...

Not to grow up properly is to retain our 'caterpillar' quality from childhood (where it is a virtue)...

Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settl...

Cadets can neither be treated as schoolboys or soldiers.

Whatever can be threatened, whatever can be shaken, whatever you fear cannot stand, is destined to c...

Then you must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do ...

He gave up. He'd been feeling like giving up for a long, long time. I guess it's maturity, they say ...

It is unjust to claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of childhood.

A man should be able to hear, and to bear, the worst that could be said of him.

In a matter of weeks, he had learned that without suffering and doubt, there can be no whole human b...

He knew he could never jingle change in his pocket or park his car like a confident adult, he was th...

It's as if God gave you something-all those stories- and said, "Here you are. Try not to lose it." B...

Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?