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Quotes About Maturation

Growing is a patient thing, lad," Daniel explained. "You must give all living things time to adjust to their new surroundings, their new soil, then time to grow, as well.
~ Cathy Gohlke
feedings increased first during the next growth
~ Gina Ford
Change is inevitable, growth is intentional.
~ Glenda Cloud
work that he continued to develop throughout
~ Jack Weatherford
Christopher Nolan's astounding third Batman feature, 'The Dark Knight Rises,' represents the true maturation of the superhero movie - and provides the key to understanding the bottomless craving moviegoers have for these films, 34 years after the Christopher Reeve Superman gave birth to the genre.
~ John Podhoretz
The Womb of a Virtuous Woman produces a Wonder boy that grows to be a Real Man
~ Samuel Asumadu-Sarkodie
The page is to the story as the seed is to the flower.
~ Bankei Yotaku
Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realize you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.
~ Marjorie Holmes
The child shall become father to the man.
~ William Wordsworth
All men are born equal, but some of them outgrow it.
~ Evan Esar
Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
~ Thomas Carlyle
I think about that with kids - you want to do everything for them, but you realize if you do everything, and you make it easy on them, they won't learn anything, and then they will walk around life needing their mamas all the time, and that isn't attractive.
~ Miriam Shor
Every player can still grow - there is no limit to that. Even when I was 38, I improved myself in certain things, and that is what I will always do with my players to help them get the best out of themselves.
~ Clarence Seedorf
It was then, for the first time, that Will saw the kind of help Marcus needed. Fiona had given him the idea that Marcus was after a father figure, someone to guide him gently towards male adulthood, but that wasn't it at all: Marcus needed help to be a kid, not an adult.
~ Nick Hornby
Y2K was the maturation of a criticism whose echo would become normative and unyielding: We've lost control of what we have built, and we need to go back. But the road at our heels was already gone. Forward was the only way out.
~ Chuck Klosterman
No soy tanto un buen amigo como el salvador que quiere que lo adores para siempre. No soy tanto un buen amigo como el padre que nunca quiere que crezcas.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
They were both in the prime of youth, or even in that season which precedes the prime of youth, the season before the smooth pink folds of the flower have burst their gummy case, when the wings of the butterfly, though fully grown, are motionless in the sun.
~ Virginia Woolf
How immense must be the force of life which turns a baby , who can just distinguish a great blot of blue and purple on a black background, into the child who thirteen years later can feel all that I felt on May 5th 1895 - now almost exactly to a day, forty-four years ago - when my mother died.
~ Virginia Woolf
Being a mother is a lot like growing up. When, or how, did you become an adult? What was the precise moment you lost your childhood? No one can say. It's all so permeable.
~ Lauren Slater
I'd never really babysat. I feel like I'm Blair, or 'Gossip Girl.' A teenager, basically - and now suddenly I'm a mom?
~ Cecily von Ziegesar
You could see it every time you looked at her: layered in her face was the baby she'd been and the child she'd become and the adult she would grow up to be, and you saw them all simultaneously, like a 3-D image. It made your head spin. It was a place you could take refuge, if you knew how to get in. And each time you left it, each time your child passed out of your sight, you feared you might never be able to return to that place again.
~ Celeste Ng
When they took a young man into Tellson's London house, they hid him somewhere till he was old. They kept him in a dark place, like a cheese, until he had the full Tellson flavour and blue-mould upon him.
~ Charles Dickens
Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.
~ Graham Greene
We have lost sight of nature's role in the whole process of maturation and growing up. Parents and nature are a team. And nature can't go on without the parental role of being able to foster individuality and viability unless the attachment needs are fully met.
~ Gordon Neufeld