Maturity Quotes - Page 6

• I believe my signal of maturity as a filmmaker iswhen I'll actually acknowledge the fact that the first take is usuallythe best.

  Atom Egoyan

  Believe, Firsts, Facts

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• Is old age really so terrible? Not if you've brushed your teeth faithfully.

  Woody Allen

  Age, Teeth, Terrible

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• America has never forgotten - and never will forget - the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path - the path that was entered upon only one hundred and fifty years ago ... How young she is! It will be centuries before she will adopt that maturity of custom - the clothing of the grave - that some people believe she is already fitted for.

  Bernard Baruch

  Believe, Years, America

  Bernard Baruch's Address on accepting The Churchman Award, New York, May 23, 1944.

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• One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

  Gertrude Stein

  Get Better, Doe, Different

  Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, Thomas Stearns Eliot, Thomas Wolfe (1945). “The Crack-up”

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• Know how to behave at a fine restaurant, which is a telltale measure of social maturity.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Literature, Social, Restaurants

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• What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.

  Dave Barry

  Silly, Book, Cute Life

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Happiness, Growing Up, Disappointment

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• By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie. By postponing the question we have set on immaturity a premium which controls most American personality to its deathbed.

  Bill Vaughan

  Lying, Men, Personality

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• It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Inspirational, Life, Sad

  "Happy birthday, Brigitte Bardot" by Agnès Poirier, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2009.

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• By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd grown up

  Eve Babitz

  Women, Memorable

  Eve Babitz (2015). “Eve's Hollywood”, p.151, New York Review of Books

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• 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

  Children, Sorry, Awards

  "A Civil Campaign". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1999.

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• How many really capable men are children more than once during the day!

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Children, Men, Capable

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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

  Andre Gide

  Thinking, Judgement, Time Left

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• Change means traveling in uncharted waters and this causes our securities to rise.

  John C. Maxwell

  Mean, Uncharted Waters, Causes

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• Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after attaining maturity.

  Richard Owen

  Causes, Individual, Multitudes

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• Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

  Marianne Williamson

  Self Esteem, Waiting, Rewards And Recognition

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• The sorrow, grief, and rage you feel is a measure of your humanity and your evolutionary maturity. As your heart breaks open there will be room for the world to heal.

  Joanna Macy

  Grief, Heart, Humanity

  Joanna Macy (2013). “Greening of the Self”, p.7, Parallax Press

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• As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts.

  David Sedaris

  Funny, Children, Growing Up

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  It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Inspirational, Patience, Time

  Elizabeth Taylor (1968). “A wreath of roses”

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• To grow up is to accept vulnerability. To be alive is to be vulnerable.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Growing Up, Alive, Criminal Mind

  Twitter post from Dec 03, 2010

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• As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow. Today I call it 'maturity'.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Different, Today, Love Myself

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• When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

  C. S. Lewis

  Fear, Children, Growing Up

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Learning lessons is a little like reaching maturity. You're not suddenly more happy, wealthy, or powerful, but you understand the world around you better, and you're at peace with yourself. Learning life's lessons is not about making your life perfect, but about seeing life as it was meant to be.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Powerful, Perfect, World

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, David Kessler (2012). “Life Lessons: How Our Mortality Can Teach Us About Life And Living”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• When we feel we are powerless our ego most wants to change the things in our world. As we realize we have the power to change our reality the maturity that comes with that understanding changes us, and we find ourselves in acceptance of what is with less desire of feeling our need to change the world around us.

  Gregg Braden

  Acceptance, Reality, Our World

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• No one grows up. That's one of the sickest lies they ever tell you. People change. People compromise. People get stranded in situations they don't want to be in… and they make the best of it. But don't try to tell me it's some kind of… glorious preordained ascent into emotional maturity. It's not.

  Greg Egan

  Growing Up, Lying, Emotional

  Greg Egan (1995). “Distress: A Novel”, Harper Prism

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