Mature Quotes - Page 28

• Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?

  Ogden Nash

  Love, Thinking, Mind

  'Lines on Facing Forty' (1942)

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• Being vintage like a fine wine
  Should make you proud of being old
  And being mature like a cheese
  Certainly explains the mould!
  Fester on undaunted into your 7th decade

  John Walter Bratton

  Birthday, Wine, Vintage

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• An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.

  Andrew Greeley

  Teenage, Joy, Sorrow

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• Victor Mature was a big man; he had a great swagger. I liked him and I knew we'd be good together on screen.

  Esther Williams

  Men, Swag, Together

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• The student body was huge at UT and you had to mature pretty quick, very quick actually. I enjoyed it and it helped me a lot in my life in general - not only in the classroom but on the baseball field as well.

  Roger Clemens

  Sports, Baseball, Body

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. January 26, 2006.

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• An essential aspect of maturing is developing the ability to take increasing responsibility for our own lives—to become increasingly self-directed

  Malcolm Knowles

  Responsibility, Self, Essentials

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• To act honestly- even at the risk of saying the unpleasant truth, or of saying no and causing distress to others- if done with intelligence and tact, is the kindest thing to do because it respects our own integrity and acknowledges in others the capacity to be competent and mature.

  Piero Ferrucci

  Integrity, Risk, Done

  Piero Ferrucci (2007). “The Power of Kindness: The Unexpected Benefits of Leading a Compassionate Life”, p.35, Penguin

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• In mature years I have always been gregarious, a lover of my kind, dependent upon the company of friends for the very pulse of moral life. To be marooned, to be shut up in a solitary cell, to inhabit a lighthouse, or to camp alone in a forest, these have always seemed to me afflictions too heavy to be borne, even in imagination.  A state in which conversation exists not, is for me an air too empty of oxygen for my lungs to breathe it.

  Edmund Gosse

  Air, Cells, Oxygen

  "Father and Son".

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• I also said, men are like curling irons, they never get out of your hair. And they are like government bonds, they take so long to mature.

  Kabir Bedi

  Men, Iron, Hair

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• Any mature, spiritually sensitive view of marriage must be built on the foundation of mature love rather than romanticism. But this immediately casts us into a countercultural pursuit.

  Gary L. Thomas

  Views, Foundation, Mature Love

  Gary L. Thomas (2010). “Sacred Marriage: What If God Designed Marriage to Make Us Holy More Than to Make Us Happy? (Large Print 16pt)”, p.8, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Consequently, a young business often grows by large percentages. Mature businesses rarely do.

  Roy H. Williams

  Business, Percentages, Young

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• Fortunately, the time has long passed when people liked to regard the United States as some kind of melting pot, taking men and women from every part of the world and converting them into standardized, homogenized Americans. We are, I think, much more mature and wise today. Just as we welcome a world of diversity, so we glory in an America of diversity -- an America all the richer for the many different and distinctive strands of which it is woven.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wise, Men, Thinking

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• As you get older, youre always maturing, youre always learning something new about yourself.

  Troy Vincent

  Learning Something New, American Football, About Yourself

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• The Mets have shied away from that iconic club because they don't want the current one exposed to that hard-partying culture which, while well-documented, has also been somewhat exaggerated at times. The guys from that championship team are older and more mature now and can warn the current Mets about some of the pitfalls of fame.

  Mookie Wilson

  Team, Party, Guy

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• And what I thought, every time I thought about my father, every time his name came up, was quite simply: I WANT TO KILL YOU. I wanted to be more mature, more reasonable, I wanted to have a big, fat, forgiving heart that could contain all this rage and still find room for kind, beneficent love, but I didn't have it in me. I just didn't.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Father, Heart, Names

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.132, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Young people are forced to mature sooner now than in the '40s. I was doing things at age 14 that guys in the movie were just beginning to do at 16 and 17

  Parker Stevenson

  People, Guy, Age

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• We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.

  Leon Jouhaux

  Reflection, Appearance, Phenomenon

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• It's easy to say you're more mature because all of a sudden you have a child, but it's a process.

  Tony Romo

  Children, Easy, Process

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• Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God. Some people mature into an understanding of God’s will more quickly than others because they obey more readily; they more readily sacrifice the life of nature to the will of God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Spiritual, Sacrifice, Maturity

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Bringing Sons Unto Glory: Studies in the Life of Our Lord”, p.18, Discovery House

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• If you feel that you can follow a few little rules or some clever gimmicks to make you a mature Christian, then you have fallen into a subtle trap of legalism.

  J. Vernon McGee

  Christian, Clever, Littles

  J. Vernon McGee (1984). “Genesis through Revelation: 5 Volumes Genesis - Revelation”, p.7596, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It is clear that God is saying, 'I gave man dominion over the earth, but he lost it. Now I desire mature sons and daughters who will in My name exercise dominion over the earth and subdue Satan, the unruly, the rebellious. Take back My world from those who would loot it and abuse it. Rule as I would rule.'

  Pat Robertson

  Daughter, Son, Exercise

  "The Secret Kingdom". Book by Pat Robertson, 1982.

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• The writing of the Beatles, or John and Paul's contribution to the Beatles in the late sixties - had a kind of depth to it, a more mature, more intellectual approach. We were different people, we were older. We knew each other in all kinds of different ways than when we wrote together as teenagers and in our older twenties.

  John Lennon

  Music, Teenager, Writing

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• I must bridge the gap between adolescent glitter and mature glow.

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Bridges, Glitter

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.188, Anchor

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• We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.

  Byron Katie

  Age, Awareness

  Twitter post from Jan 27, 2015

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• In a series of wonderful essays, Evan Handler gives himself up to us - warts and all. To our amusement and bemusement we share in his emotional growth as he struggles to mature. I not only laughed along with him but felt that I too had grown a little along the way. Who could ask for more?

  Lewis Black

  Struggle, Emotional, Giving

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