Maturity Quotes

Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the people's highest intellectual maturity and inexhaustible idealism can it be brought safely through all storms and find its way to port.
Rosa Luxemburg

Life, Through, Country

Sometimes success will get in the way of maturity - at least temporarily.
Ricky Williams

Success, Sometimes

When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.
Victoria Principal

Woman, Put, Both

It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
Quintilian

Genius, Happens, Seldom

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
Robertson Davies

Age, Great, Morning

I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.
John le Carre

Age, Democracy, Find

I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.
Benjamin Spock

Marriage, Woman, Joy

I'd date someone younger or older; age doesn't matter to me. Or looks, really - it's all about maturity.
Leona Lewis

Age, Someone, Matter

I think what's happening for me, it's fun to see other things besides Facebook and Twitter take hold. The maturity of Tumblr as a real player is exciting. I think Pinterest has proved to be a major player. It's fun to see Instagram become a major player. It's fun to watch things like SnapChat, and Vine, try to vie to be the next thing.
Gary Vaynerchuk

The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.
Paul Theroux

Peace, Drag, Main

I am fine with 'Puppy Love.' I hated it for a while. But I still sing it. I have a country version, a sexy version and a cheesy nightclub version. I am trying to infuse it with maturity. I will never escape that song. I will always be Mr. 'Puppy Love.'
Donny Osmond

Love, Sexy, Trying

The dueling maturity levels in high school is such a source of comedy to me. I was always such a late developer. I was last to walk. I was last to ride a bike. I was last to have sex. That's why it's fun to portray one side of your childhood onscreen.
Paul Feig

School, Fun, Sex

Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.
Terri Apter

Society, Physical, Permission

Youth condemns; maturity condones.
Amy Lowell

Youth, Condemns

Indeed, the FHA was born out of the Great Depression, which was also caused in significant part by a foreclosure crisis. Mortgages in the early 1930s were mostly three- to five-year 'bullet' loans, which did not amortize and were due in full at maturity.
Mark Zandi

Great, Crisis, Depression

Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will be like a plant.
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Him, Whatever, Grow

I don't think anyone is black and white and I think we change our minds and our attitudes about certain things as we grow to our maturity.
Giancarlo Esposito

Change, Black, Minds

If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.
M. Esther Harding

Human, Both, Full

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.
Jules Feiffer

With girls, friendships are hard because you have to learn to get to a maturity level to love them but not want to be them.
Nikki Reed

Love, Hard, Learn

I believe Twitter, right now, is just finishing the venture capital phase, getting into a maturity level.
Al-Waleed bin Talal

Getting, Level, Finishing

Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.
Laura Marling

Age, Experience, Confused

Confidence comes with maturity, being more accepting of yourself.
Nicole Scherzinger

Yourself, Confidence, Accepting

I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.
Tom Lehrer

Trying, Senility, Bypass

I think that shows a level of maturity and understanding that I think bodes well for getting to the bottom of this. But it is really up to you and your staff, on behalf of the American people, to take on that challenge.
David Kay

Challenge, American, Getting

Throughout the whole vegetable, sensible, and rational world, whatever makes progress towards maturity, as soon as it has passed that point, begins to verge towards decay.
Robert Blair

Whole, Whatever, Makes

When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity; it was as if the whole nation had burst into splendid flower.
Lytton Strachey

Government, Flower, Whole

I think it's a change that I did not intend at the time but it is clear that, from The Flower of My Secret on, there is a change in my films. A lot of the journalists have very generously attributed this to my growing maturity.
Pedro Almodovar

Change, Time, Flower

You know, it's a different world now, but to skip ahead and really answer your question, only in the last five years did I find what I call holy maturity, finding the balance, finding the right person in my life so that I could live a normal life.
Burt Ward

Life, Live, Person

Maturity implies otherness... The art of living is the art of living with.
Julius Gordon

Art, Living, Implies

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