Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alicia Keys

Maturity and experience are part of my liberation.

Drew Barrymore

I was born 10 years old.

Duff Goldman

I feel like I'm 18, with the maturity level of like a 14-year-old. I'm still the same goofball; I'm still in college, as far as I'm concerned.

Desmond Tutu

Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.

David Berg

From the accounts of those who have had glimpses of Heaven in visions and revelations, it seems that we do mature somewhat in Heaven. Those who arrive in their youth grow to maturity, while older people appear more middle-aged, in the prime of life.

Compton MacKenzie

Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen

Alfred de Vigny

What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?

just the right touch of maturity and vulnerability

Dayton Moore

He's had a tremendous year. He comes to play every day and he doesn't give up a single at-bat. He's really shown a lot of maturity.

Kurt Vonnegut

Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are.

Charles R. Swindoll

For there to be true maturity, people must be given room to grow, which includes room to fail...

We need them. We'll find out what kind of maturity they have and who can go out and make plays.

John C. Maxwell

When your through changing, your through!

Frank Yerby

Maturity is reached the day we don't need to be lied to about anything.

Edward Bellamy

Hold the period of youth sacred to education, and the period of maturity, when the physical forces begin to flag, equally sacred to ease and agreeable relaxation.

Hermann Hesse

Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.

Joseph Addison

When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can. Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress

Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting.

Kelley Armstrong

Maturity is highly overrated.

Mahatma Gandhi

Be the change you seek.

Helen Mirren

You know, some actors, all of their potential is in their youth, and when that passes, their qualities of as an actor pass. But he - Alan [Rickman] was the opposite, and their are other actors who are like that, who, really, their potential is in maturity

Edsger Dijkstra

… what society overwhelmingly asks for is snake oil. Of course, the snake oil has the most impressive names — otherwise you would be selling nothing — like “Structured Analysis and Design”, “Software Engineering”, “Maturity Models”, “Management Information Systems”, “Integrated Project Support Environments” “Object Orientation” and “Business Process Re-engineering”.

Henry David Thoreau

Maturity is when all of your mirrors turn into windows.

Flannery O'Connor

It is a sign of maturity... to find explanations in charity.

Immanuel Kant

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

Elton John

I still want to play music but I don't want to look like Donald Duck while I'm doing it.

George Saunders

The great American denial riff is that you can do whatever you like and you always triumph at the end. The world is saying no, you can do what you like, but there are consequences. And maturity is to be able to turn to the consequences and accept them.

Jennifer Lawrence

I'm not ready to own a place yet. I have the money, but I don't have the maturity.

Fran Lebowitz

Smoking is, as far as I'm concerned, the entire point of being an adult.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

It takes years and maturity to make the discovery that the power of faith is nobler than the power of doubt; and that there is a celestial wisdom in the ingenuous propensity to trust, which belongs to honest and noble natures.

Erich Maria Remarque

For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress -- to the future.

I see the maturity of Michelle Snow, getting better and better each day.

This is the maturity she has and that's why she's going to be playing in college. She realizes for the team to be successful, she had to do something she might not want to do. That's a team player and that's why teams with her on them will be successful.