Maturity Quotes

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?

And because Eddie knew that was only the truth, he said nothing.

Hi,’ Jake said. ‘I met you earlier today, but you were a lot younger then.’ ‘I was a lot younger ten...

Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by prete...

He did not like the grown-ups who talked down to him, but the ones who went on talking in their usua...

What was to be the value of the long looked forward to,Long hoped for calm, the autumnal serenityAnd...

I introduced Nora as my wife, though that was a lie. Old people, that's what they wanted to hear. If...

You solve it as you get older, when you reach the point where you've tasted so much that you can som...

Even if someone does something that brings bad to you,do something good for them and make them feel ...

Old timidity has disappeared, and is replaced by silent, quaint fun, with which his face twinkles al...

At thirty a man steps out of the darkness and wasteland of preparation into active life it is the ti...

He had learned some of the things that every man must find out for himself, and he had found out abo...

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

What I've found about it is that there are some folks you can talk to until you're blue in the face-...

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowhip with other human beings as we...

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as w...

My poetry doesn't change from place to place - it changes with the years. It's very important to be ...

The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, g...

...The happy Warrior... 'tis, finally, the man, who, lifted high, conspicuous object in a nation's e...

...The happy Warrior... is he... whose powers shed round him in the common strife, or mild concerns ...

...The happy Warrior... is the generous Spirit, who, when brought among the tasks of real life, hath...

The narrator finds that as a maturing character grows in stature before her friends that she sees le...

Maturity/experience: the beguiling texture of stones subjected to years of furious seas.

Maturity' really means: being very unsurprised by, and calm around, pain and disappointment.

Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yoursel...

Growth occurs when we discover how to remain authentically ourselves in the presence of potentially ...

Dantes had entered the Chateau d’If with the round, open, smiling face of a young and happy man, wit...

I’ve always resented the word maturity, primarily, I think, because it is most often used as a club....

A man is born; his first years go by in obscurity amid the pleasures or hardships of childhood. He g...

Compassion makes you strong, caring and creative. It creates a different attitude, a level of maturi...

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; ...

Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to ...

Like the culture that created me, I am receding into the past at a rate of knots. Soon I'll need a w...

Mary, it must be remembered, was very nearly of the same age as Frank; but, as I and others have so ...

It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own. ...

For the inexperienced, however, it is very difficult to distinguish passionate love from mere sex hu...

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...