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Quotes About Maturation

Today Rosa's little one will take his first step in outgrowing his mother. Children are their own persons; they are not part of us.
~ Lynn Austin
The best wines take the longest to mature.
~ John Fowles
Growth inside fuels growth outside.
~ John Maxwell
Education as growth or maturity should be an ever-present process.
~ John Dewey
Maturation is the development from environmental support to self-support.
~ Bruce Lee
A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming.
~ Martin Luther
Growth is betrayal.
~ John Updike
Life is all about making progress, it is never about perfection.
~ Unknown
Never let anyone insult your own level of growing, because no one was born grown. We are all learning and growing... Everyday, for those who never stop learning.
~ Terry Mark
Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives.
~ Camille Paglia
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
~ Unknown
Graduation is only a concept. In real life every day you graduate. Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your life. If you can grasp that, you'll make a difference.
~ Arie Pencovici
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
~ Enid Bagnold
Like some wines, our love could neither mature nor travel.
~ Graham Greene
So, as you may be sensing, I wasn't quite cooked.
~ Martin Shaw
We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later...Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.
~ Mary Antin
We are not all born at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later... Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.
~ Unknown
As you develop, the people around you also develop. As you progress, the world progresses with you to a certain degree.
~ Unknown
But as things made their decline from ripeness, they could taste wonderful, I realized.
~ Matt Haig
The B cells came from bone marrow and generated antibodies. The T cells matured in the thymus and could either fight or direct action. They are generals and soldiers.
~ Unknown
True development, true maturation, consists in a double phenomenon of both surpassing and maintaining the past. To truly surpass the past is also to conserve it; in becoming something more, one must not refuse to affirm what one has been.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.
~ Max Frisch
The pupa stage is a short "rest stop" before it becomes an adult.
~ Unknown
I find it hard to believe that she was just seventeen, my age now, when she was married and taken halfway across the world. But then again, Mama was just seventeen when she gave birth to me, so it makes me realize how young we youth of today really are. Maybe we know more or think we know more, or do a lot more, but we haven't been through as much. We'd never be able to cope with the pressures our mothers and grandmothers went through.
~ Melina Marchetta