Quotes by Maturity Do you want to know what I most regret about my youth? That I didn't dream more boldly and demand of myself more impossible things; for all one does in maturity is to carve in granite or porphyry the soap bubble one blew in youth! Oh to have dreamed harder! Lewis Mumford maturityregretdream To my everlasting relief, he’d also stopped with the starch a few years back . The military made him big on spray starch, but I point-blank refused to touch the stuff after a while. He finally gave up doing it himself, and I manfully restrained myself from pointing out that the world didn’t explode when he did. And they say maturity is just for adults. Lilith Saintcrow maturitymilitaryyears If you're any good at all, you know you can be better. Lindsey Buckingham maturityifsknows In the end, it's a mental maturity to let your best come out. Lindsey Vonn maturityends That sense – the only true patriotism – comes slowly and springs from the heart: it is founded upon respect for the family and love for the soil. Premature ‘liberty’ of this kind would have been a disaster: we should have been torn to pieces by petty squabbles before we had ever reached political maturity, which, as things were, as made possible by the long quiet years under monarchical government; for it was that government which, as it were, nursed our strength and enabled us ultimately to produce sound fruit from liberty, as only a politically adult nation can. Livy maturityheartspring I grew up going to school and high school and then shooting a movie for a few months. It's an odd way to grow up and is kind of forced maturity. Logan Lerman growing-upmaturityschool A young fellow ought to be wiser than he should seem to be; and an old fellow ought to seem wise whether he really be so or not. Lord Chesterfield maturitywisdomwise Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard Lois McMaster Bujold maturitysorrychildren We belong to that order of mammals, the primates, distinguished by its propensity for repeated single litters, intense parental care, long life-spans, late sexual maturity, and a complex and extensive social existence... Our protracted biological and psychological helplessness, which extends well into the third year of life, intensifies the bond between infant and parents, making possible a sense of generational continuity. In contrast to other primates these bonds are not obliterated after sexual maturity. Louise J. Kaplan maturityorderyears I do not comment on my client's personal lives in the media. As for Luke, he did so once, a long time ago when he was an inexperienced, young actor and now with maturity and hindsight, he has learned not to engage the press in his personal life again. Luke Evans maturitygaymedia When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity; it was as if the whole nation had burst into splendid flower. Lytton Strachey maturitygovernmentflower But where, after we have made the great decision to leave the security of childhood and move on into the vastness of maturity, does anybody ever feel completely at home? Madeleine L'Engle maturityhomemoving Unlearning is the choice, conscious or unconscious, of any real artist. And it is the true sign of maturity. Madeleine L'Engle maturityartistreal To grow up is to accept vulnerability. To be alive is to be vulnerable. Madeleine L'Engle growing-upmaturityalive Do not fear death, but welcome it, since it too comes from nature. For just as we are young and grow old, and flourish and reach maturity, have teeth and a beard and grey hairs, conceive, become pregnant, and bring forth new life, and all the other natural processes that follow the seasons of our existence, so also do we have death. A thoughtful person will never take death lightly, impatiently, or scornfully, but will wait for it as one of life's natural processes. Marcus Aurelius thoughtfulmaturitydeath children are an embarrassment to a business civilization. A business society needs children for the same reason that a nomadic or a pastoral society needs them - to perpetuate itself. Unfortunately, however, children are of no use to a business society until they have almost reached physical maturity. Margaret Halsey maturitybusinesschildren No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity. Margaret Mead maturitychangeworld By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves. Marie Dressler turning-50maturitybirthday Only practical work and experience lead the young to maturity. Maria Montessori practicalsmaturityyoung Know how to behave at a fine restaurant, which is a telltale measure of social maturity. Marilyn vos Savant maturitysocialliterature«1415161718192021222324»
