Mature famous quotes
05-25-2025
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It’s in how you carry yourself. I’ve always been a very mature person, and I’ve always known what I wanted. And I go after it no matter what.
-- Aaliyah -
I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
-- Ad Reinhardt -
If you can last until you're 40 years old, hopefully you'll be mature enough to figure out the rest of the years.
-- Alan Jackson -
A major threshold is passed when you mature enough to acknowledge what drives you, and to take the wheel and steer it.
-- Andrew Stanton -
There are some questions that shouldn't be asked until a person is mature enough to appreciate the answers.
-- Anne Bishop -
Anyone with the maturity to surrender entirely to God is mature enough for God to use.
-- Beth Moore -
All of the good stuff is going to be done in the future. The stuff we are doing now is crummy compared with what will finally mature.
-- Bill Budge -
The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless
-- Bram Cohen -
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
-- Brian Tracy -
I always look up to people like Michael Gambon and Tommy Lee Jones, and I hope that as I mature I will become as craggy as them.
-- Burn Gorman -
We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.
-- Byron Katie -
We don't accidentally drift into holiness; rather we mature gradually and purposefully, one choice at a time.
-- C. J. Mahaney -
So I suppose this slightly mature fashion sense happened because of what I had.
-- Carly Simon -
There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.
-- Celine Dion -
Most males do not mature, they simply grow taller.
-- Christina Dodd -
Things were somehow so good that they were in danger of becoming very bad because what is fully mature is very close to rotting
-- Clarice Lispector -
An intelligent lady, a little too mature for recklessness, a little too young for caution.
-- Connie Brockway -
Even when I think I'm writing really young, they say it's too mature.
-- Cynthia Weil -
My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that's why I've been seen as mature.
-- Dakota Fanning -
As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
-- Dallas Willard -
Pre-mature ejaculation. Let's talk about it. Pre-mature ejaculation. That's a pretty fancy term for, Ooooooh Oh no. This has never happened before.
-- Dave Attell -
I hope to always be myself, except more mature and knowing more.
-- David Archuleta -
In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.
-- Deepak Chopra -
There was that word again.Mature. Was this what maturity was? Giving up on the things we wanted because we knew we'd never get them?
-- Diana Peterfreund -
I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to just over 40, really.
-- Edmund Hillary -
I am entirely persuaded that the American public is more reasonable, restrained and mature than most of the broadcast industry's planners believe. Their fear of controversy is not warranted by the evidence.
-- Edward R. Murrow -
Will America be the death of English? I'm glad I asked me that. My well-thought-out mature judgment is that it will.
-- Edwin Newman -
Very few among us are noble, or even mature, in all parts of our nature at the same time.
-- Gertrude Lawrence -
Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves.
-- Haruki Murakami -
I think audiences can deal with these mature themes.
-- Harvey Weinstein -
The mature person meets the demands of life, while the immature person demands that life meet her demands.
-- Henry Cloud -
Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
-- Horace Mann -
To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely.
-- Hugo von Hofmannsthal -
Also, as I've gotten older and more mature, I've become much more comfortable in my own skin. After 25 years of doing stand-up, that's reflected onstage.
-- Janeane Garofalo -
A mature artist is at the same time aware of the futility of his achievement and the validity of the pursuit.
-- Jean Helion -
We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.
-- Jim DeMint -
I'm a baritone. Baritones don't mature until late.
-- Joe Bastianich -
A lot of times maturing as an artist is just starting to do the things you like to do.
-- John Currin -
Music actually meant something when I started doing it. Too bad I wasn't mature enough to write anything that meant anything.
-- John Mellencamp -
Christians who neglect the Bible simply do not mature.
-- John Stott -
On religion in particular, the time appears to me to have come, when it is a duty of all who, being qualified in point of knowledge, have, on mature consideration, satisfied themselves that the current opinions are not only false, but hurtful, to make their dissent known.
-- John Stuart Mill -
You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
-- Joseph Campbell -
Men, to act with vigour and effect, must have time to mature measures, and judgment and experience, as to the best method of applying them. They must not be hurried on to their conclusions by the passions, or the fears of the multitude. They must deliberate, as well as resolve.
-- Joseph Story -
Cynicism is no more mature than naïveté. You're no more mature, just more burned.
-- Karl Marlantes -
I'm 24 years old and yeah, I'm a different person and I'm definitely more mature, but these are the tops that I'm going to keep on wearing.
-- Kendra Wilkinson -
Sometimes the problem has to mature before the solution can mature.
-- Kent Beck -
I don't want anyone to follow me on Twitter if they're looking for anything interesting or mature.
-- Lauren German -
People mature at different stages and I feel I'm learning a lot.
-- Lee Westwood -
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 -
Our deepest mature conviction is that finite and infinite interpenetrate, as time and eternity interpenetrate, and our problems must be solved in the light of that conviction.
-- Lily Dougall -
I don't know. Haven't I always been mature?
-- Lleyton Hewitt -
Women cannot claim the right to be considered mature and responsible until they decide the course of their lives for themselves and refuse to be a "manipulated group." They will not be truly emancipated untilthe right to work is a matter of course and not of discussion.
-- Mary Barnett Gilson -
Part of maturing as a designer is discovering what you're good at.
-- Michael Bierut -
Elegimos aquellos que nos gusta, con los que amamos, no tenemos voz en el asunto.
-- Mignon McLaughlin -
The maturing of a woman who has continued to grow is a beautiful thing to behold. Or, if your ad revenue or your seven-figure salary or your privileged sexual status depend on it, it is an operable condition.
-- Naomi Wolf -
A photographer cannot be inexperienced, or too mature. A photographer ought to be half-ripe.
-- Nobuyoshi Araki -
I feel about 18, but my mind is much more mature now, so it's a perfect combination.
-- Oksana Chusovitina -
It seems that everything is part of the maturing process
-- Onew -
Up until age 40, most men are just not as mature as women. So, it makes sense that a lot of women date up in age a bit.
-- Patti Stanger -
You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.
-- Ralph Waite -
God has spoken to me differently through my life, and it has gotten better as I've gotten older. I don't know if that's my reception or his maturing.
-- Rick Springfield -
As I became more mature I realized that failure is part of success.
-- Robert G. Allen -
The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged.
-- Robert Morgan -
The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.
-- Saint Augustine -
In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems.
-- Sargent Shriver -
We can only learn and advance with contradictions. The faithful inside should meet the doubtful. The doubtful should meet the faithful. Human slowly advances and becomes mature when he accepts his contradictions.
-- Shams Tabrizi -
To mature is in part to realize that while complete intimacy and omniscience and power cannot be had, self-transcendence, growth, and closeness to others are nevertheless within one's reach.
-- Sissela Bok -
When you have a kid, you have to be more mature.
-- Sofia Vergara -
Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.
-- Sophia Loren -
The immature poet imitates, the mature poet plagiarizes,
-- T. S. Eliot -
Boys are so much less mature than girls as it is.
-- Taylor Momsen -
I'm very disappointed by the mature-democracy countries. I was ousted by a coup d'etat.
-- Thaksin Shinawatra -
Mature? Yeah, I get told that a lot. I don't know if it's true. I guess I try to be bright.
-- Thomas Horn -
In a maturing market it's not advisable to be always everybody's darling, because you get too thin.
-- Thorsten Heins -
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 -
As you get older, youre always maturing, youre always learning something new about yourself.
-- Troy Vincent -
I realize that I'm a mature woman and one of these days, incredible diet or not, I'll be a little old lady.
-- Victoria Moran -
I have been maturing as a teacher. New experiences bring new sensitivities and flexibility...
-- W. Howard Lester -
You, oh mature ones, keep company solely with other mature ones, and your maturity is so mature that it can only chum up with maturity!
-- Witold Gombrowicz -
I would like to have a girlfriend who is more mature than my mental age.
-- Yuki -
A dog, for me, it's not just getting a dog. I couldn't leave him at home. I'm looking for a life partner and I'm not ready. I'm not emotionally mature enough.
-- Zac Efron -
The U.S. and European markets have become mature, profit margins are lower, and equipment isnt so new. Because profits are relatively low, it limits the willingness of companies to invest in newer equipment.
-- Zong Qinghou -
You get older and more mature ... you just kind of go with the flow.
-- Carl Crawford -
I'd like to think that I'm getting slightly more mature as time goes on, but I don't know if my fiancee would necessarily agree.
-- Chris O'Dowd -
When you're a first-round pick and you get to the big leagues at 22, there's almost a sense that you've got to mature.
-- Evan Longoria -
Learning and performing music have been rewarding, both physically and mentally. They helped me to mature and grow as a person.
-- George Li -
I can be immature. I know I can when I'm at my dance lessons or something. I become like the class clown. I don't know why. But I can flip in and out of it - if I need to be mature I can be mature, but if I want to have a bit of fun, I'll have a bit of fun.
-- Georgia Groome -
I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
-- Harriet Walter -
It takes a while for a photograph to mature. That sounds really pretentious, but it takes a time for it to go from here to there.
-- Harry Benson -
We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.
-- Madeleine L'Engle -
I like red wine because it's more sophisticated, more complex and mature. It's a bit like me, no longer young but not old yet either.
-- Mick Hucknall
