Quotes About Maturation

God always wants us to be growing.

The beginner hugs his infant poem to him and does not want it to grow up. But you may have to break your poem to remake it.

Looking at Prim's face, it's hard to imagine she's the same frail little girl I left behind on reapimg day nine months ago. The combination of that ordeal and all that has followed - the cruelty in the district, the parade of sick and wounded that she often treates herself now if my mother's hands are too full - these things have aged her years. She's grown quite a bit, too; we're practically the same height now, but that isn't what makes her seem so much older.

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

Love is growing up.

subjected. In Discipline and Punish Foucault shows that alongside the maturation of the capitalist system of production the scientific location & elucidation of "the individual" (preeminently through the psy- and medical sciences) becomes an increasingly effective means of control & repression. Keeping tabs.

My wife and I both grew up with parents who were very young. Her mom was, I think, 17 or 18 when she was born; my mom was 15 when I was born. So, as we got older, we started thinking a lot about that - about the time that those people missed because we came along when we did and because they devoted so much of their lives to taking care of us.

I have to be more modest now that I'm a mama, but I loved those days when I could really wear what I wanted to. I do love crazy shoes and clothes. But I mean, come on, I'm 38, so even if I like a dress of Betsey Johnson, I have to say, 'Stop it. Go for Chanel!'

I was 24 when Samori was born. His mom was 23.

In 1651, in Leviathan, it was Thomas Hobbes who first advanced the contention that without top-down state controls we'd turn, rather effortlessly, into a bunch of brutish savages. And there's more than a grain of truth in such a notion. But Pinker argues from a more bottom-up perspective, and while certainly not denying the importance of legal restraints, also insinuates a gradual process of cultural and psychological maturation.

Strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age.

this life is the incubation period!

You put your life on hold for me. And really, I get that. I appreciate that. But I'm not a baby anymore. Let go, Mom.

But there were other forces at work in the cub, the greatest of which was growth. Instinct and law demanded of him obedience. But growth demanded disobedience...In the end, one day, fear and obedience were swept away by the rush of life, and the cub straddled and sprawled toward the entrance.

As we undergo maturation, we come to understand that our temporary fruit was never the endgame of an everlasting Master, but rather just a single step in the process of making eternal wine.

Such a large sweet fruit is a complete marriage, that it needs a very long summer to ripen in and then a long winter to mellow and season it.

Men are born, and then they're formed.

The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety.

A world where everything was easy would be a nursery for babies, but not at all a fit place for men.

My mum loved Joan Armatrading and used to play her records all the time and even took me to see her a couple of times when I was really quite young. I didn't really like her music back then because my mum was always playing it, but I've grown to appreciate it more.

I'm always being told I've got an old head on young shoulders, which is probably due to the way my mum and dad brought me up.

I want to grow. I want to be better. You Grow. We all grow. We're made to grow.You either evolve or you disappear.

Vianne hated what she saw in her daughter's eyes right now. There was nothing young in her gaze—no innocence, no naïveté, no hope. Not even grief. Just anger.

Maturity is betterment of the existing state.