Quotes About Maturation

Nature wants children to be children before men... Childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling.

Nature does not demand that we be perfect. It requires only that we grow.

Nature never gives everything at once.

You are a whole lot better today than yesterday.

The whole purpose of education is to turn green buds into beautiful flowers.

Some things unfold with time

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

Mrs. Penmark said that she was, adding that the child, almost from babyhood, had been something of a riddle both to herself and her husband. It was a thing difficult to isolate, or identify, but there was a strangely mature quality in the child's character which they found disturbing.

It was as though the very process of maturation with him had been reversed, so that with experience he seemed to grow more, not less, childish.

Growth, unlike aging, is not an automatic consequence of

The Child grew, and with growth there came to Him expansion of mind, development of faculties, and progression in power and understanding. (Jesus the Christ, 111)

Every one, though born of God in an instant, yet undoubtedly grows by slow degrees.

If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development

Libraries are not made, they grow.

I hope I've grown. We all should grow from year to year.

Perfection is not a destination; it's a never-ending process...Enjoy!

Nothing can be rushed. It must grow, it should grow of itself, and if the time ever comes for that work, then so much the better!

What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows - it must grow; nothing can prevent it.

A story must simmer in its own juice for months or even years before it's ready to serve.

The expansion is inevitable.

Perfection itself is boring; it's only everything leading up to it that's interesting.

There are plenty of things that a teenage boy doesn't tell his mother. As we get older, there are more and more things we hold back, things too hard to say or too embarrassing to explain. We do this to protect our mothers as much as ourselves, because let's face it—most of our thoughts are truly unthinkable.

But I'm like a fine wine," he replied. "I get better with age.

Each one of my movies becomes easier to get off the ground.