Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elton John

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

LeVar Burton

Maturity is a series of shattered illusions.

Learned Hand

Those of us who have come to years of discretion and more, must often take to retrospect, and seek to appraise the outcome of our lives.

Neal A. Maxwell

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

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of high maturity, to rise to the level of self-criticism.

Publilius Syrus

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity. / No one knows what he can do till he tries.

Neil Young

You can't be 20 on Sugar Mountain.

Oren Arnold

Maturity is the ability to live in someone else's world.

Nicos Anastasiades

I would like to thank the Cypriot people for their maturity and collectedness shown in their interactions with the Cypriot Banks.

Nicole Scherzinger

Confidence comes with maturity, being more accepting of yourself.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Milan Kundera

It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, which only very limited minds can declare to be a certainty or a truth.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Most of us don't mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn't interfere with what we want to do, but it takes discipline and maturity to do what we ought to do whether we want to or not.

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.

John C. Maxwell

When your through changing, your through!

Hermann Hesse

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

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

Michael Buckley

When did you suddenly become Mister Maturity?

Marie Dressler

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.

Mark Zandi

Indeed, the FHA was born out of the Great Depression, which was also caused in significant part by a foreclosure crisis. Mortgages in the early 1930s were mostly three- to five-year 'bullet' loans, which did not amortize and were due in full at maturity.

Louise J. Kaplan

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.

John Steinbeck

When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch.

John Updike

If you're telling me I'm not mature, that's one thing I don't cry over since as far as I can make out it's the same thing as being dead.

Rafael Nadal

It is no longer enough to play very well. You need to be able to give an answer at all times and everywhere. You cannot hide. This has something to do with maturity, and that is something you only acquire over the years.

Elle Macpherson

I'm almost 50, so I obviously don't have the same body that I had when I was 20. But I also don't have the same mindset either, when I was wracked with self-consciousness and insecurity. Now I really appreciate my maturity as a woman, my depth of spirit and soul and my understanding of who I am and what's important to me.

Marlon Brando

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.

Max Lucado

My co-pastor is Randy Frazee. Randy is the brightest bulb in this box. He really has a feeling for what a church needs in terms of maturity, so I listen to him.

Max Lucado

There is a canyon of difference between doing your best to glorify God and doing whatever it takes to glorify yourself. The quest for excellence is a mark of maturity. The quest for power is childish.

John Dewey

Education as growth or maturity should be an ever-present process.