Maturity Quotes

"A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die." "One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered" "I am not a girl, not yet a woman" "These young guys are playing checkers. I’m out there playing chess." "It takes a long time to become young." "We don't grow older, we grow riper." "The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life." "Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery." "Whatever happens, take responsibility." "I do believe in the old saying, 'What does not kill you makes you stronger' Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity" "Getting old is a fascinating thing. The older you get, the older you want to get." "I think a lot of your 20s is trying to figure out who you really are." "Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love—you know, things I don’t care about anymore" "Sometimes you will never know the value of something until it becomes a memory." "The world is not a wish-granting factory." "Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore" "I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday" "I think school is so much harder than real life. People are so much more accepting when they are adults" "You cannot create experience. You must undergo it" "The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected."