Poetry, Shakespeare and opera, are like mumps and should be caught when young. In the unhappy event that there is a postponement to mature years, the results may be devastating.
There was that word again.Mature. Was this what maturity was? Giving up on the things we wanted because we knew we’d never get them?
I think there's a really mature side of me that can deal with problems - but when I'm with my friends, I get to act much more kidlike.
To wear a gray tweed suit, you have to be mature and confident in yourself. Some people can't pull it off.
It takes a lot of grace and maturity to simply forgive, but a lot of healing takes place when you do.
The challenges surrounding HIV and AIDS are getting more complex and mature, and we just can't stick our heads in the sand and say 'it can't happen to me.'
I like to protect children. I mean, there's nothing wrong with having adult programming for mature adults that can selectively decide what they want to watch and what they don't want to watch.
Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will be like a plant.
A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
You simply don't get to be wise, mature, etc., unless you've been a raving cannibal for thirty years or so.
I have three sons, a husband, parents, and I'll fight and get angry, but what is very important that I have found as I've matured, is that I have to move on.
It would seem to me that by the time a race has achieved deep space capability it would have matured to a point where it would have no thought of dominating another intelligent species.
People have a right to surf the Web without Big Brother watching their every move and announcing it to the world. The Internet marketplace has matured - and it's time for consumers' protections to keep pace.
Berlin is in a state of transition. There are lots of people who don't stay here. They pass through. They might not 'clean up,' but they mature. It is a city where people spend a significant time in their lives, and then they move on.
Congressmember Weiner has shown just a pattern of reckless behavior, an inability to tell the truth, and what New Yorkers deserve is a mayor with a record of delivering for them, of vision, and a level of maturity and responsibility.
Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.
More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
The science linking the increased frequency and severity of extreme weather to the climate crisis has matured tremendously in the last couple of years.
We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.
Men and women are most alike at their most mature and soulful levels. Men and women are most different only at their most immature and merely physical levels.
If you look at movies with Cary Grant or Jimmy Stewart and all the rest of it, none of them looks like a boy. They always looked like mature men. The audience didn't want to go and see kids.
