What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
Dave Barry (1947 - )
The purpose of life is to fight maturity.
Dick Werthimer
There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish
sometimes.
Doctor Who
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Eve Babitz
To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that
comes.
Fritz Kunkel
Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't
original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. That he
has to leave the nest, the security, and go out to do battle. He has to
lose everything that is lovely and fight for a new loveliness of his own
making, and it's a tragedy. A lot of people don't have the courage to do
it.
Helen Hayes (1900 - 1993), in Roy Newquist, Showcase, 1966
Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.
Jules Feiffer (1929 - )
My Father taught me how to be a man – and not by instilling in me a
sense of machismo or an agenda of dominance. He taught me that a real
man doesn’t take, he gives; he doesn’t use force, he uses logic; doesn’t
play the role of trouble-maker, but rather, trouble-shooter; and most
importantly, a real man is defined by what’s in his heart, not his
pants.
Kevin Smith, My Boring Ass Life, 06-01-05
Age is no guarantee of maturity.
Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You
can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you,
as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do
enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it.
Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and
walk away. But that's hard.
Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we
would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept
vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - ), "Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith
and Art", 1980
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