Mature Quotes - Page 30

• I'm just naturally gravitating towards different things. As you mature, different subject matters. And as you're older, you can't play as many parts, or you shouldn't be playing the parts that you used to play. But also there's the opportunity to play parts that you couldn't have.

  Clint Eastwood

  Opportunity, Play, Different

  "Letters From Iwo Jima - Clint Eastwood interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• He's just intelligent-sort of a nerd, actually. He's the only brother I know who made a 1420 on the SAT. I don't think Chris Dudley did that, and Mr. Smarty Pants went to Yale. Kobe doesn't hang out. He doesn't go to the clubs. He doesn't ride around. He doesn't put rims on his car. He's just him. He's a sophisticated kid. Damn mature for his age.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Brother, Kids

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• Tantric Buddhism means that we become mature adults and we learn the reality of chaos theory.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Mean, Buddhism

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• As we grow older and mature in each incarnation, we are drawn back to samskaras, to previous interests and pursuits.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pursuit, Samskara, Interest

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• Preaching is God's great institution for the planting and maturing of spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are untold. When wrongly executed, no evil can exceed its damaging results.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Spiritual, Evil, Benefits

  Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL

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• Adults had the notion that juveniles needed to suffer. Only when they had suffered enough to wipe out most of their naturally joyous spirits and innocence were they staid enough to be considered mature. An adult was essentially a broken-down child.

  Piers Anthony

  Children, Broken, Suffering

  Piers Anthony (2002). “Centaur Aisle”, p.7, Del Rey

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• Brambles, in particular, protect and nourish young fruit trees, and on farms bramble clumps (blackberry or one of its related cultivars) can be used to exclude deer and cattle from newly set trees. As the trees (apple, quince, plum, citrus, fig) age, and the brambles are shaded out, hoofed animals come to eat fallen fruit, and the mature trees (7 plus years old) are sufficiently hardy to withstand browsing. Our forest ancestors may well have followed some such sequences for orchard evolution, assisted by indigenous birds and mammals.

  Bill Mollison

  Animal, Years, Apples

  "Permaculture: A Designers' Manual". Book by Bill Mollison, 1988.

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• I think a Moon base is not necessary to get to Mars, but I think it will be helpful. It would give you a chance to develop and mature some systems; long duration, deep space stuff; and you're close enough to get some help, via radio from Earth.

  Charles Duke

  Moon, Thinking, Space

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• When a juvenile offender commits a heinous crime, the State can exact forfeiture of some of the most basic liberties, but the State cannot extinguish his life and his potential to attain a mature understanding of his own humanity.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Understanding, Humanity, Liberty

  Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551, March 1, 2005.

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• When virtue is pictured as innocence and innocence equated with childlikeness, the implication is obviously that knowledge and experience are no longer media of goodness, but have become in themselves contaminating. This is a very despairing outlook, in its way as black as Augustine's original sin, for it supposes that original goodness will in all likelihood be defiled...It surrenders the attempt to represent virtue in a mature phase.

  Marina Warner

  Media, Black, Phases

  Marina Warner (2013). “Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism”, p.248, OUP Oxford

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• I certainly wouldn't compare the rewards of watching one's children grow and mature with that of money piling up at the box office. Both are pleasant, but to varying degrees. As the old saying goes, you can't take an audience home with you. You can't depend on the loyalty of fans, who, after all is said and done, are just faceless people one seldom sees. And few stars have their fans forever. But a child is forever. That bond and relationship is timeless and doesn't depend on your looks, age or popularity at the moment.

  Julie Andrews

  Loyalty, Stars, Children

  Saturday Evening Post, February 1980.

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• 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

  Pain, Real, Alive

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• if you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago. ... you must write to the human heart, the great consciousness that all humanity goes to make up. Otherwise what might be strength in a writer is only crudeness, and what might be insight is only observation; sentimemnt falls to sentimentality - you can write about life, but never write life itself.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Fall, Writing, Heart

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• Writers, however mature and wise and eminent, are children at heart.

  Edna O'Brien

  Wise, Children, Heart

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• My tablecloth was missing in action and long, jagged scratches covered the table's surface.The scratches looked suspiciously like letters. I climbed on a chair and looked at it from above. MINE. Oh, that's great. Fantastic. So mature. Perhaps he would pull my pigtails next or stick a tack on my seat.

  Ilona Andrews

  Long, Missing, Scratches

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Gunmetal Magic: A Novel in the World of Kate Daniels”, p.123, Penguin

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• The steadily inward look leads us all to death, nations as well as persons, and is equally infantile in them all. Perhaps the most useful thing I have learned in my lifetime is that the process of maturing gradually turns the mind away from the small-self to the greater-self that is only served by serving others.

  Margery Wilson

  Self, Mind, Inward

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• You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.

  Joseph Campbell

  Authority

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• The emotionally mature individual should completely accept the fact that we live in a world of probability and chance, where there are not, nor probably ever will be, any absolute certainties, and should realize that it is not at all horrible, indeed—such a probabilistic, uncertain world.

  Albert Ellis

  World, Facts, Chance

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• Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved." Mature love follows the principle: "I am loved because I love." Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Maturity, Immature

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.46, Open Road Media

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• Who ever he is, I agree with your mother," said Dad as he entered the kitchen. "Stay away from him. Stay away from them all until you're of marrying age. Once you reach a nice, mature fifty-four, gentlemen callers will be welcomed here.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Mother, Dad, Nice

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the benefits of being a mature well-educated woman is that you're not afraid of expletives. And you have no fear to put a fool in his place. That's the power of language and experience. You can learn a lot from Shakespeare.

  Judi Dench

  Benefits, Fool, Language

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• Very few among us are noble, or even mature, in all parts of our nature at the same time.

  Gertrude Lawrence

  Noble

  Gertrude Lawrence (1945). “A Star Danced”

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

  Vittorio Grigolo

  Wine, Thinking, Voice

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• Mature love is loving, not being loved.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Love Is, Mature Love, Being Loved

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• The best wines take the longest to mature.

  John Fowles

  Wine, Best Wine

  JOHN FOWLES (1969). “THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN”

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