She had not been conferred with a practical sense of how one went about this strange and all inverted business of being a girl, where seemingly natural stuff like going on about all the great...

The three phases of Santa belief: (1) Santa is real.(2) Santa isn’t real.(3) Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.

I was not 15 anymore, and choices no longer had that same clear, bright edge to them.

Most students have to do some work to resuscitate their childlike curiosity. The best way to do that is to start asking questions again—lots of them.

maturity,” then every single woman I’ve dated has been at least twice my yage.

To the immature, other people are not real.

If you’re any good at all, you know you can be better.

Affectation is really a question of heart motive. Growing into a persona is an essential part of maturing. Anything you might choose to do is going to contribute to one persona or another. People will...

We showed a lot a poise and maturity in the situation.

Her maturity level has gotten a lot better. She is becoming easier to coach, as well.

Freedom can be a state of mind, a path built independently, and with freedom comes responsibility.

I have found that as your wisdom and maturity develop, the number of other people you blame for your own circumstances shrinks.

When you blame others, what you are really saying is what is inside of you can’t be fixed, so you have no control of your own happiness. Therefore, you have made the conscience choice to...

Older people make this mistake all the time with younger people, treating them as a finished product when in fact they are in process.

The job wouldn’t be just put the summer, but for a long time, as long as she could see ahead. Once they were used to the money coming in it would be impossible to do...

We’ve recruited a very professional team and it’s simply a sign of maturity of our organization that we want the professionals whose careers are at stake in making this thing work properly,

With eight returning starters on both sides, we have a little more experience to take in a setting like that. Probably very few people realized Utah was a BCS-caliber team at that time, and that...

To be a man, a boy must see a man.

Children have empty erasable white boards upon which big people write indelibly imprinted messages into their tender subconscious minds.

It doesn’t take many nights of temperatures in the mid-to- lower 50s to shut the maturity process down.

Chong said, “Do yourself a favor, Morg. Next time you’re staring at a girl’s boobs, look up. You’ll be shocked to learn it, but there’s going to be a face up there. Nose, mouth, eyes....

If you happen to be white in a white country; pretty according to the dictates of fashion; rich in a country where money is adored, it’s almost impossible to grow up and to grow up...

A spirit of satirical frivolity so dominated Britain in the 1960s that one critic feared the country “would sink giggling into the sea.

We’re a mature team. Today we showed our maturity. We never gave up. We’re always finding a way to win, that’s what we did.

Age brings maturity, experience ripens it.

She leaned down so she was looking right in my eyes. “You hear me, child. you can’t use other folks’ bad behavior to excuse your own. When we got a choice, we keep Jesus in...

The modern view seems to me to involve a false conception of growth. They accuse us of arrested development because we have not lost a taste we had in childhood. But surely arrested development consists...

When you overlook an insult, you keep your peace.Don’t give away your joy to troublemakers.

We shall, as we ripen in grace, have greater sweetness towards our fellow Christians. Bitter-spirited Christians may know a great deal, but they are immature. Those who are quick to censure may be very acute...

When you mature in your relationship with God you realize how suffering and patience are like eating your spiritual vegetables.

I thought she was older than she was, and I thought she was younger than she was. She looked older, but she acted younger, so no matter what her age was, I was surprised by...

It takes a while for revelry to turn to reverence, and much repetition of truth to eventual turn young zeal into habitual channels for good.

Until you’re grown-up they send you to reform school. After you’re grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.

When we concentrate on preaching what people WANT to hear we will only succeed in exciting their flash and depressing their spirit.

I couldn’t shake the impulse to help him. It seemed that the older I got the more I believed that everyone, homeless or not, deserved to be treated at least like a human.

Whatever can be threatened, whatever can be shaken, whatever you fear cannot stand, is destined to crash. Do not go down with the ship. Let that which is destined to become the past slip away....

Realize that maturity does not come with age but with acceptance of responsibility.

Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.

will show political maturity and become a global power, or it will end up a Christian club.

Ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present,...

Yep, I was so mature, I decided I would just have to reward myself by doing the naked lambada with a Federal Agent.

Pseudo-artists think that being an artist means opposing whatever seems to be an establishment. That is not creative at all. True creativity is the ability to gain perspective wherever you may have missed it before.

Maturity is so often considered to be synonymous with ‘adult.’ But I truly feel that maturity may be defined by the ability to be both an adult and a child.

Age doesn’t determine maturity. It’s the depth of life that does, not its duration.

She was kind of thin as a 3-year-old but maturity has been great for her. She’s so much stronger now and she’s getting better. The break we gave her after the Breeders’ Cup has helped...

I am convinced that most people do not grow up…We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years...

The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring — that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by...

I am not half the man I use to think I was.

You solve it as you get older, when you reach the point where you’ve tasted so much that you can somehow sacrifice certain things more easily, and you have a more tolerant view of things...