Quotes About Maturation

Burn me--you grew some nice-sized eggs over night, now didn't ya?

since I was a little boy, she had always wanted me to go. She was always sending me off on a bus someplace, to elementary school, to camp, to relatives in Kentucky, to college. She pushed me away from her just as she'd pushed my elder siblings away when we lived in New York, literally shoving them out the front door when they left for college.

Unlike Kate, this girl had broken from her setting. All that Kate was, she now had. And standing on Kate's shoulders, something more, still growing; blossoming and yet to fruit. All that he was not.

they develop slowly, beneath the surface—like a subcutaneous abscess.

If you are asking me whether I would want to have kids, I would say obviously I want them. It's only natural after a certain phase in life.

Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.

I just want to show people I've matured, not just physically but mentally.

These things don't just come, arrive and settle like a bird picking up a few bits of crumbs. They develop. I think the best word for these things is develop. They develop because of the human beings who just happen to be there at the time.

You do change when you have the responsibility of caring for children.

I think that in each stage of your career, you need certain things to improve your game and to develop your style of play.

It's nauseating for me when I feel like I'm not growing or challenging myself.

Superheroes don't often get their powers in one fell swoop. It's like superhero puberty.

You see how Jay-Z has evolved from 'Reasonable Doubt' to now being Shawn Carter. You have to grow to be a superstar and not just a rap artist.

You're supposed to grow as you get older.

How quickly children grow! They are infants -- you look away a minute and in that time they have left their babyhood behind.

Baby, high school's over. High school's never over..

out by opioids or willful denial. It was like her emotional maturation had stopped the second she'd swallowed that first Oxycontin.

I feel like I went from being a boy to being a man, in some respects, through the help of Dustin Hoffman.

In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.

I don't want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

I'd never really babysat. I feel like I'm Blair, or 'Gossip Girl.' A teenager, basically - and now suddenly I'm a mom?

Daughter am I in my mother's house, but mistress in my own.

God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.

The moment a man ceases to progress, to grow higher, wider and deeper, then his life becomes stagnant.