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Quotes About Maturation

Like all true transformations, it was as slow and gentle as the growth of a plant.
~ Michael Ende
Menschen im Alter zwischen zwanzig und dreißig Jahren sind damit beschäftigt, ein anderer zu werden.
~ Michael Ondaatje
I am trying to grow and I am trying to improve every single day.
~ Joe Hart
During my childhood, I felt older than my years because I felt responsible for my brothers and sisters.
~ Pattie Boyd
I firmly believe that every six years, a person goes through a serious change. Think about it: At 6, you start school. At about 12, you start hitting puberty. And then it goes on. You start hitting these different mental levels, and people change. I think that's part of the reason the divorce rate is so high.
~ Randy Houser
Eva, she said exasperated. You should've established a personal style by now-and it shouldn't be sweats! Monica, Eva Tramell's mother, in Reflected in You
~ Sylvia Day
We walk through life as if we had swallowed an Easter candle, rigid and tense, always afraid that things will get out of hand. This reaction is just as harmful as open rebellion, or even more so, because it blocks our way to religious maturation.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
Teaching, therefore, asks first of all the creation of a space where students and teachers can enter into a fearless communication with each other and allow their respective life experiences to be their primary and most valuable source of growth and maturation. It asks for a mutual trust in which those who teach and those who want to learn can become present to each other, not as opponents, but as those who share in the same struggle and search for the same truth.
~ Henri Nouwen
Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out of them, the twigs. So, in productive subjects, grow the chapters.
~ Herman Melville
Thus we see how that the spine of even the hugest of living things tapers off at last into simple child's play.
~ Herman Melville
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
~ C. S. Lewis
It was just my mom, my sister and me. And from a young age, my mom always said I was like the man of the house. I really became the man of the house. And I really took that responsibility very seriously: being the man of the house, the protector.
~ Julius Randle
I was talented at a young age, but I still had to grow and develop further.
~ Per Mertesacker
My fans have grown up with me and seen my life change over the years, from a young girl with 'Goodies' to a full-grown woman and now mom.
~ Ciara
After a sapling is planted, care should be taken on how it will survive and grow into a tree.
~ Sayaji Shinde
On the sets, Bharathirajaa would treat me like an adult even though I was just 16. One day, he slapped me. I was taken aback. I cried and went back to school. Then, he called me and said, 'You are like my daughter. Come back.'
~ Riya Sen
You have to protect your kids, but you also have to slowly allow them to grow up.
~ Cynthia Bailey
There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.
~ Samuel Johnson
The most ancient part of our brain is at the very back, where balance, territoriality, and instincts are processed. The brain expanded in the forward direction and developed the limbic system, the monkey brain of emotions, located in the center of the brain. This progression from the back to the front is also the way a child's brain matures.
~ Michio Kaku
I love anything that has to do with expanding and becoming more than you can actually become. Going further than you did before.
~ Bobby Williams
Science grows like a weed every year.
~ Kary Mullis
He's shocked to find I am middle aged. I'm not shocked. Inside me are the Russian dolls of the women and girls I've been before each more beautiful and unhappy than the current.
~ Kate Camp
There must be reasons why we men are so hipped on breasts as if we'd all been weaned too soon.
~ Gunter Grass
Thus we see how that the spine of even the hugest of living things tapers off at last into simple child's play.
~ Herman Melville