Mature Quotes - Page 35

• My sound is constantly progressing and maturing. It's hard with all the songs that I have written over the years to compile them all into one album. It's almost impossible to categorize them into one genre.

  Asher Monroe

  Song, Years, Progress

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• A psychologically engrossing novel about the homes we make-in our houses, in our neighborhoods, and in the hearts of our loved ones. Laken takes on that great unspoken American subject-class-and does so with frankness, acuity and surpassing feeling. DREAM HOUSE is a memorable debut novel from a fully mature talent.

  Peter Ho Davies

  Dream, Home, Memorable

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• A dog, for me, it's not just getting a dog. I couldn't leave him at home. I'm looking for a life partner and I'm not ready. I'm not emotionally mature enough.

  Zac Efron

  Dog, Home, Enough

  "Zac Efron and Taylor Schilling Talk THE LUCKY ONE, ARGO, THE PAPERBOY and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. April 15, 2012.

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• Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is interesting and odd about truth. Fully mature intellects, finally, love truth, even when it appears plain and simple, boring to the ordinary person; for they have noticed that truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Simple, Mind Love

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• We can glut ourselves with how-to-raise children information . . . strive to become more mature and aware but none of this will spare us from the . . . inevitability that some of the time we are going to fail our children. Because there is a big gap between knowing and doing. Because mature, aware people are imperfect too. Or because some current event in our life may so absorb or depress us that when our children need us we cannot come through.

  Judith Viorst

  Depressing, Children, Knowing

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• An entirely new factor has appeared in the social development of the country, and this factor is the Irish-American, and his influence. To mature its powers, to concentrate its action, to learn the secret of its own strength and of England's weakness, the Celtic intellect has had to cross the Atlantic. At home it had but learned the pathetic weakness of nationality; in a strange land it realised what indomitable forces nationality possesses. What captivity was to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish: America and American influence have educated them.

  Oscar Wilde

  Country, Home, America

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• A set of ideas, a point of view, a frame of reference is in space only an intersection, the state of affairs at some given momentin the consciousness of one man or many men, but in time it has evolving form, virtually organic extension. In time ideas can be thought of as sprouting, growing, maturing, bringing forth seed and dying like plants.

  John Dos Passos

  Knowledge, Men, Views

  John Dos Passos (2010). “The Ground We Stand on: The History of a Political Creed”, p.17, Transaction Publishers

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• Now, in my middle age,
  about nineteen in the head I'd say,
  I am rowing, I am rowing.

  Anne Sexton

  Age, Nineteen, Aging

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.229, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special character.

  Tillie Olsen

  Character, Special, Literature

  Tillie Olsen (1995). “Tell Me a Riddle”, p.96, Rutgers University Press

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• We humans undergo two major growth spurts: one during infancy and another from eleven to twelve until fifteen or sixteen--pubescence. Between the two is a relatively quiescent growth period in which most of the body takes a rest from growing while the brain continues to mature. This period of life is general referred to as childhood or, sometimes, latency.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Two, Childhood, Growth

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• Do they merit vitriol, even a drop of it? Yes, because they corrupt the young, persuading them that the mature world, which produced Beethoven and Schweitzer, sets an even higher value on the transient anodynes of youth than does youth itself.... They are the Hollow Men. They are electronic lice.

  Anthony Burgess

  Men, Merit, Doe

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• Mature love has a bliss not even imagined by newlyweds.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Mature Love, Bliss, Newlyweds

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• Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could it be that they do not realize that their aesthetic criteria, generally speaking, are juvenile?

  Franz Grillparzer

  Art, Style, Immaturity

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• Preschoolers sound much brighter and more knowledgeable than they really are, which is why so many parents and grandparents are sosure their progeny are gifted and super-bright. Because children's questions sound so mature and sophisticated, we are tempted to answer them at a level of abstraction far beyond the child's level of comprehension. That is a temptation we should resist.

  David Elkind

  Children, Grandparent, Temptation

  David Elkind (1999). “La educacion erronea. Ninos preescolares en peligro”, Fondo De Cultura Economica USA

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• I'm happier in the way a guy gets happier when he starts to mature. It doesn't make things easier, but I'm so much better at handling them.

  Dave Chappelle

  Guy, Way, Easier

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• Women cannot claim the right to be considered mature and responsible until they decide the course of their lives for themselves and refuse to be a "manipulated group." They will not be truly emancipated untilthe right to work is a matter of course and not of discussion.

  Mary Barnett Gilson

  Groups, Matter, Responsible

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• Accumulating years in the act of living is no guarantee of maturity. In fact, it is possible to be born, grow old and die without ever maturing.

  Tian Dayton

  Maturity, Years, Guarantees

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• I think as a mature artist, you're probably always trying to undo the compromises of one's self [in general]. It's not necessarily to do with youth.

  Kate Bush

  Artist, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• It's one of the bases of all human existence - the relation between parents and children, whether biologically or metaphorically. It's something we can never get away from, even in a civilization where we're controlled by robots. It's the basic relationship between mature people who represent paternal and maternal figures and young people. It's universal - it's part of human existence. It's always been that way, and it will always be that way if humans remain around.

  Eugene Green

  Children, Civilization, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The only way for white folks to reclaim the full arc of their humanity, the full trajectory of their ethical content, of their ethical identity, is to surrender the white innocence that prevents them from being fully mature.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  White, Humanity, Identity

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• President Obama, I voted for him. I think he's a mature politician, but here's what happened. Obama wanted a green economy. He spent billions of dollars of tax money to create a green economy and it didn't happen. The question is why.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Thinking, President, Politician

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Football is one side of me. Art is another. Travel is another. As I mature, I can organize it so that when I'm done with football, whether it be travel, or becoming a doctor, or going off on a farm and raising chickens, which I'd also like to do, or climbing ten of the most difficult peaks in the world, or spending time backpacking in a flannel shirt and big boots, I'll know how to take off into the world.

  Dhani Jones

  Football, Art, Done

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I can be immature. I know I can when I'm at my dance lessons or something. I become like the class clown. I don't know why. But I can flip in and out of it - if I need to be mature I can be mature, but if I want to have a bit of fun, I'll have a bit of fun.

  Georgia Groome

  Fun, Immature, Clown

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• If your subject is crime, then you know at least that you're going to have a real story. If your subject is the maturing of a college boy, you may never stumble across a story while you're telling that. But if your story is a college boy dead in his dorm room, you know there's a story in there, someplace.

  Donald E. Westlake

  Real, Boys, College

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2006.

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• The art path leads you to be increasingly free. And what does "because of being increasingly free" mean? Julio Ramón Ribeyro used to say a mature novel demands the author's death, not literal death but metaphoric death, which is the author has to truly erase himself. Therefore, to be truly free, you have to break free from internal and external pressures, to erase the self completely and become a sort of medium, let the story pass through yourself and let the story dance with you.

  Rosa Montero

  Art, Mean, Path

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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