Mature Quotes

• The thing is, that when you're young, you always think you'll meet all sorts of wonderful people, that drifting apart and losing friends is natural. You don't worry, at first, about the friends you leave behind. But as you get older, it gets harder to build friendships. Too many defenses, too little opportunity. You get busy. And by the time you realize that you've lost the dearest best friend you've ever had, years have gone by and you're mature enough to be embarrassed by your attitude and, frankly, by your arrogance.

  

  Kate Jacobs
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Opportunity

• I was lucky enough to be able to grow and mature in a natural way as an actress.

  

  Kate Burton
  • Lucky
  • Grow
  • Mature

• If somebody ever says something is a mature theme, it's bound to not be. I mean, you shouldn't fall for that. You can make it sound mature, but anything that's about being mature is pretty immature.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • Pretty
  • Fall
  • Bound

• 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
  • Mature
  • Flip

• Men and women are different. I don't think men grow a brain until 26 or even 30. Girls mature a lot quicker.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Men
  • Different
  • Thinking

• I don't like it when people who are young act like they're 40. That's taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you're so mature or whatever – I don't try to act mature. Some people might say I'm mature for my age, but it's not something I'm trying to do, you know? I'm just me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Young
  • Act

• The more you mature, you realize that this imperfections make your more beautiful.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Beautiful
  • inspirational
  • Realizing

• Caesar was too old, it seems to me, to go off and amuse himself conquering the world. Such a pastime was all right for Augustus and Alexander; they were young men, not easily held in check, but Caesar ought to have been more mature.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Check
  • Caesar
  • Amuse

• But you're not really emotionally mature in your 20s. Well, we weren't. You don't say anything, you just bottle it up and then it builds up.

  

  Keren Woodward Bananarama
  • Mature
  • Bottle
  • Builds

• I can't believe people got so upset at the sight of a single breast! America is so parochial, I may just have to move to Europe where people are more mature about things like that!

  

  Janet Jackson
  • People
  • Believe
  • May

• The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple.

  

  Rudolf Arnheim
  • Art
  • Culture
  • Simple

• 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
  • Humanity
  • Identity
  • Innocence

• A father's interest in having a child--perhaps his only child--may be unmatched by any other interest in his life. It is truly surprising that the state must assign a greater value to a mother's decision to cut off a potential human life by abortion than to a father's decision to let it mature into a live child.

  

  William Rehnquist
  • Children
  • Decision
  • Cutting

• The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities.

  

  Wilfrid Sheed
  • American
  • Possibilities
  • Exhausted

• But a mature humanity could get into a place where we no longer required these metaphysical spankings from messiahs and flying saucers that come along every thousand years or so to mess up the mess that has been created and try and send people off on another tack. And the way to do this is to look at the abysses that confront man as species and individuals and try to unify them. And I think that psilocybin offers a way out because it allows a dialogue with the over-mind. You won't read about it in "Scientific American" or anywhere else. You will carry it out.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Trying
  • Humanity
  • Individual

• So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gathered, not harshly plucked, for death mature: This is old age; but then thou must outlive Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty, which will change To withered weak and grey.

  

  John Milton
  • Death
  • Mother`s
  • Lap

• This Government, the offspring of your own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers, uniting security with energy, and containing within itself a provision for its own amendment, has a just claim to your confidence and your support.

  

  George Washington
  • Energy
  • Support
  • Choices

• Jenni Fagan is the real thing, and The Panopticon is a real treat: maturely alive to the pains of maturing, and cleverly amused as well as appalled by what it finds in the world.

  

  Andrew Motion
  • World
  • Real
  • Pain

• I think voice is like a good wine. If you work it well, it will mature.

  

  Vittorio Grigolo
  • Thinking
  • Wine
  • Mature

• The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one

  

  Wilhelm Stekel
  • While
  • Immature
  • Nobly

• And if you can come through that and still have some connection to your joy you felt when you were a child that's a very mature kind of a joy that I find inspiring. And Jennifer Lowrence has all that in her, and I've watched her have to go through it even in the last few years.

  

  David O. Russell
  • Children
  • Kind
  • Joy

• Intuition is natural by-product of flowering of a mature self-esteem and a sense of empowerment – not power over, but power to be

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Intuition
  • Mature
  • Empowerment

• As we mature through the years, we access more deeply information we had only abstractly understood before.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Information
  • Understood
  • Mature

• The inducements of interest for observing [neutral] conduct . . . has been to endeavour to gain time to our country to settle and mature its yet recent institutions, and to progress without interruption, to that degree of strength and consistency, which is necessary to give it, humanly speaking, the command of its own fortunes.

  

  George Washington
  • Country
  • Giving
  • Progress

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