Maturity Quotes - Page 19

• All over Harlem, Negro boys and girls are growing into stunted maturity, trying desperately to find a place to stand; and the wonder is not that so many are ruined but that so many survive.

  James A. Baldwin

  Girl, Boys, Trying

  "The Harlem Ghetto" by James A. Baldwin in "Commentary", February 1948, republished in James A. Baldwin "Notes of a Native Son", 1955.

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• That sense – the only true patriotism – comes slowly and springs from the heart: it is founded upon respect for the family and love for the soil. Premature ‘liberty’ of this kind would have been a disaster: we should have been torn to pieces by petty squabbles before we had ever reached political maturity, which, as things were, as made possible by the long quiet years under monarchical government; for it was that government which, as it were, nursed our strength and enabled us ultimately to produce sound fruit from liberty, as only a politically adult nation can.

  Livy

  Spring, Heart, Government

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• Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities... If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man's evolution, it seems not so much to be a lasting acquisition, as a parallel to the neurosis which the civilized individual must pass through on his way from childhood to maturity.

  Sigmund Freud

  Mean, Men, Childhood

  "New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis". Book by Sigmund Freud (Lecture 35 "A Philosophy of Life"), 1933.

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• The ideas embodied in the New Deal Legislation were a compilation of those which had come to maturity under Herbert Hoover’s aegis. We all of us owed much to Hoover

  Rexford Tugwell

  Ideas, Legislation, Hoover

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• The children's writer not only makes a satisfactory connection between [the writer's] present maturity and his past childhood, he also does the same for his child-characters in reverse - makes the connection between their present childhood and their future maturity. That their maturity is never visibly achieved makes no difference; the promise of it is there.

  Philippa Pearce

  Children, Character, Past

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• Fitzgerald never got rid of anything; the ghosts of his adolescence, the failures of his youth, the doubts of his maturity plagued him to the end. He was supremely a part of the world he described, so much a part that he made himself its king and then, when he saw it begin to crumble, he crumbled with it and led it to death.

  John Aldridge

  Kings, Writing, Doubt

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• Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting.

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

  Common Sense, Voting, Spaniards

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• There seems to be more opportunities for old guys like me to do a little fighting and running because the lead characters also require a bit of depth and maturity and gravitas that one is likely to acquire doing drama all those years.

  Liam Neeson

  Running, Drama, Character

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

  Leona Lewis

  Age, Looks, Matter

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 'Mixtape' is a very appropriate word to include in the title of Goran Hugo Olsson's film because it includes a rich mixture of cultural voices. They speak across different dividing lines such as those of haves and have-nots, youth and maturity, black and white, national and global, and the past and the present.

  Aberjhani

  Black And White, Past, Voice

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• Emotional maturity is ability to stick to a job and to struggle through until it is finished; to endure unpleasantness, discomfort, and frustration; to give more than is asked for or required; to size things up and make independent decisions; to work under authority and to cooperate with others; to defer to time, other persons, and to circumstances.

  Edward Adam Strecker

  Jobs, Struggle, Character

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• Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Moving, Inspiration

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• Wine is a living liquid containing no preservatives. Its life cycle comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. When not treated with reasonable respect it will sicken and die.

  Julia Child

  Wine, Age, Vineyards

  Julia Child “Mastering the Art of French Cooking”, Рипол Классик

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• The dreams of youth are the regrets of maturity.

  Tim Curry

  Dream, Regret, Youth

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• For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Perfect, Age, Silly Person

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• My heart leaps up when I behold
  A rainbow in the sky:
  So was it when my life began;
  So is it now I am a man;
  So be it when I shall grow old,
  Or let me die!
  The Child is father of the Man;
  I could wish my days to be
  Bound each to each by natural piety.

  William Wordsworth

  Beauty, Children, Father

  "My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold" l. 1 (1807). Wordsworth also used the last three lines as the epigraph for his poem "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" (1807). See Milton 43

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• Tomatoes and squash never fail to reach maturity. You can spray them with acid, beat them with sticks and burn them; they love it.

  S. J. Perelman

  Love, Squash, Tomatoes

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• The doctrine of pre-existence pours a wonderful flood of light upon the otherwise mysterious problem of man's origin. It shows that man, as a spirit, was begotten and born of heavenly parents and reared to maturity in the eternal mansions of the Father, prior to coming upon the earth in a temporal body to undergo an experience in mortality.

  Heber J. Grant

  Father, Men, Light

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• The American culture ideal of the "self-made-man," of everyone "standing on his own feet" seemed as tragic a picture as the initiative-destroying dependence on a benevolent despot. He felt and perceived clearly that we all need continuous help from each other, and that this type of interdependence is the greatest challenge to maturity of individual and group functioning.

  Kurt Lewin

  Men, Self, Feet

  "The Research Center for Group Dynamics".

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• When young we have a vivid sense of basic values like trust and warm-heartedness, which we tend to neglect in today's competitive world as we grow up, yet from birth we all have a need for affection. The emotions we experience today have not changed much over the last few thousand years, but the interest increasing numbers of people are showing in their inner world and how their emotions work is a sign of maturity.

  Dalai Lama

  Trust, Buddhist, Growing Up

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• One of the blessings of maturity is that it sometimes brings one greater courage to be truthful, regardless of what those who do not understand may think or say

  Napoleon Hill

  Blessing, Thinking, May

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.189, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Spiritual, Years, Obedience

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

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• It is always easier to take the words of a Jesus, a Gandhi, a Marx, or a Confucius as constituting Holy Writ. This involves less reading, less study, less thought, less conflict, and less independent searching, but it also means less growth toward maturity.

  William Coperthwaite

  Jesus, Reading, Mean

  William Coperthwaite, John Saltmarsh (2007). “A Handmade Life: In Search of Simplicity”, p.13, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• Most women are not as young as they are painted.

  Max Beerbohm

  Women, Young

  Yellow Book (1894) vol. 1, p. 67

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• Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.

  Marlon Brando

  Expression, Acting, Quitting

  "He was always a contender" by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2004.

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