Quotes About Maturation

She came to him then and lifted her arms to be picked up, something he could not remember her doing for a long time-maybe two years. It was amazing how time got by, how quickly a child could change, change in front of your eyes with an unobtrusiveness that was nearly terrible.

In all of life, there are sequential stages of growth and development. A child learns to turn over, to sit up, to crawl, and then to walk and run. Each step is important and each one takes time. No step can be skipped.

their way to becoming

The evangelical wing of the Church spends a lot of energy on being born again but little time on growing up again. There is a failing to encourage newborn believers out of the maternity ward and into a big world where they will spend the rest of their spiritual lives trying to find what they are looking for.

Mighty things from small beginnings grow.

Perfection is the child of time.

Perhaps the only possible answer to the primal estrangement is re-presentation, the constantly renewed ordering of the metaphoric experience and its re-enactment in the maturation process of the individual. And what representation is more elemental than reflection?

Australian girls nearly always begin to think of 'lovers and nonsense', as middlefolks call it, long before their English aged sisters do... And herein lies the chief defect of the very young Australian girl. She is like a peach; a beautiful, smooth, rich peach, that has come to ripeness, almost in a day, and that hastens to rub off the soft, delicate bloom that is its chief charm, just to show its bright, warm colouring more clearly.

Every individual can improve from day to day, from year to year, and have greater capacity to do things as the years come and the years go.

Since I left Atleti, I have improved my game with my feet considerably, and I have matured a lot as a person.

Some players hit the heights straight away, for me it's been gradual improvement.

I grew 3 inches every year of my high school career. I went from 5-7 to 5-10 to 6-1 to 6-4, so I was really small.

That is what I mean when I say that we die many deaths in the course of our lives: The teenager in you dies, the college student in you dies, the single unattached you dies, the version of you that's a parent of an infant dies, and so on. Once each of these mini-deaths occurs, there's no going back. Maybe "dies" is a bit harsh, but you get the idea: We all keep moving forward, progressing from one stage or phase of our lives to the next.

When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.

better than the others. I think he will grow up pretty

It was not until my 20s that I began to creep toward maturity.

Girls are caterpillars while they live in the world, to be finally butterflies when the summer comes

Baa," said little Rainy, now a full-size sheep. They grow up so fast.

You're my daughter. Don't take tea for the fever. You are your own woman.

the character of a dwelling, like that of a man, grows slowly.

God is thoroughly committed to finishing the masterpiece He started in us. And that process means one major thing: change.

Research has shown that a barren environment is much more damaging to baby animals than it is to adult animals. It does not hurt the adult animals the same way it damages babies.

Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.

The most significant and alarming consequence of early maturation is an increased risk for breast cancer in adulthood.