“I needed to go to college. I needed to mature.”
― Aaron Judge
“I don’t think arrested-adolescent humor will fade. Maybe the form will change, but I guarantee its replacement will still be based in immature behavior from mature figures.”
― Adam McKay
“I think that every band tries to mature their sound through their existence, you know?”
― Adam Rich
“As you mature, you start reading and studying and researching, you start to really know what life is about.”
― Afrika Bambaataa
“If you can last until you’re 40 years old, hopefully you’ll be mature enough to figure out the rest of the years.”
― Alan Jackson
“Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.”
― Albert Einstein
“I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation.”
― Aleksandar Hemon
“When you’re in the entertainment industry, you have to be more mature, be able to hang with the adults.”
― Alexander Gould
“I arrived in Milan when I was 18. But my time in Italian football helped me to mature.”
― Alexandre Pato
“An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.”
― Alfred North Whitehead
“It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one’s children will become than for the children one’s ‘mature’ critics often are.”
― Alice Walker
“If I’m not getting older and more mature at 31, then something’s wrong.”
― Allen Iverson
“As I grow older, I like to think I’m getting a little bit more mature.”
― Alun Wyn Jones
“Sometimes you have to mature.”
― Alvaro Morata
“My favorite video to film was ‘Work It’ because it began the incredible road ahead. Missy was protective and thoughtful of us kids, removing us from the mature scenes and using the clean version when we filmed.”
― Alyson Stoner
“After my hit ‘Mynaa’, big offers came to me. I didn’t know how to handle things. Once you know how to handle things and you come of age, you want to do mature films.”
― Amala Paul
“I think I’m a little more mature than the average guy.”
― Amar’e Stoudemire
“There’s a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It’s impossible to be mature without having lived.”
― Amy Grant
“When you mature, you also get more secure about yourself. You see things differently.”
― Ana Ivanovic
“Am I as experienced, or mature, or smart as others CEOs? No probably not, but there’s something, I think, very useful about having a founder as the CEO.”
― Andrew Mason
“A lot of times, adults confuse growing up or becoming more mature with a sense of seriousness, a sense of boringness, a sense of just stupidness.”
― Andrew W.K.
“Frankly, I think it should be no football until you’re physically mature.”
― Ann McKee
“In my day, the films you got were about mature people, people with some kind of weight.”
― Anne Reid
“With time, I will progress even more, and I will be more mature to score even more goals.”
― Anthony Martial
“We like mature storytelling. We like dramatic storytelling. We like intense storytelling.”
― Anthony Russo
“It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.”
― Anthony Trollope
“If somebody ever says something is a mature theme, it’s bound to not be. I mean, you shouldn’t fall for that. You can make it sound mature, but anything that’s about being mature is pretty immature.”
― Ariel Pink
“I would go back to school after working on a movie, and it didn’t feel I missed anything, like I had been away. I did mature pretty quickly, though, but I still sound pretty immature sometimes.”
― Asa Butterfield
“It’s a bit different when you’re 16 as to when you’re 20. You’re a little bit more developed and mature in your body.”
― Ashleigh Barty
“I’ve become more mature on and off the court, and I’ve learned how to deal with some of those big occasions much better.”
― Ashleigh Barty
“Nirvana is next level. The songs are really cool to connect with on a more mature level, and I don’t think I really understood that when I was 15.”
― Ashton Irwin
“Mythopoeia has taken off in the Indian diaspora because there has been a change in readership from a mature audience to a younger one. This lot has a desperate yearning to reconnect. They want to consume mythology but in a well-packaged and easily digestible way.”
― Ashwin Sanghi
“Acting is a career, and you can’t expect everything to work out the way you want. One has to be mature enough to handle that.”
― Asin
“One should mature over 20 years.”
― Aung San Suu Kyi
“There’s a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.”
― Barbra Streisand
“I am more mature now and know how to deal with certain situations in football. It’s not all about highs; there are also lows, but I can deal with it. Football is a hard business.”
― Bastian Schweinsteiger
“’Can’t Stop Dancing’ is this other side of me that I was ready to introduce to my fans, which is like, after you hang out with me, you start to see that I can be chilled and relaxed, and I’m a little bit more mature for my age.”
― Becky G
“In a mature economy like India’s, which is becoming modern and a financially-oriented economy, an independent central bank, responsible central bank, is really central to success.”
― Ben Bernanke
“’Pitch Perfect 2′ is about the Bellas and what happens to them as they get older. All your favorite characters are coming back. Chrissie Fit was great, and Hailee Steinfeld is such a pro – she fit right in. I had no idea she was 17! She’s the most mature girl ever.”
― Ben Platt
“I’ll have time to mature and develop, and one day, hopefully, I can bring a ring to wherever I am. LeBron did it.”
― Ben Simmons
“As human beings, we all mature physically from childhood to adolescence and then into adulthood, but our emotions lag behind.”
― Bernard Sumner
“All of the good stuff is going to be done in the future. The stuff we are doing now is crummy compared with what will finally mature.”
― Bill Budge
“If I were involved with the NBA, I wouldn’t want a 19-year-old or a 20-year-old kid to bring into all the travel and all the problems that exist in the NBA. I would want a much more mature kid. I would want a kid that maybe I’ve been watching on another team, and now he’s 21, 22 years old instead of 18 or 19, and I might trade for that kid.”
― Bobby Knight
“The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it’s pointless.”
― Bram Cohen
“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.’”
― Brande Roderick
“I mean it allowed me to do that which was fantastic because we really get to see the character mature and deal with some things that are, that I think as an audience member, really pull us in.”
― Brandon Routh
“Within the coming years, disrupting the Bitcoin network will become increasingly more difficult as Bitcoin wallet software and the protocol become more mature and resilient.”
― Brian Armstrong
“Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.”
― Brian Tracy
“When I was in the rock band, I got to do whatever I wanted. I had people paying my bills, and I didn’t have time to grow up. When I got sober and left Korn, it was like, ‘OK, now I can mature.’”
― Brian Welch
“At HBO, they seem to be well-informed. They make what I think are really quite mature films.”
― Bruce Beresford
“I always look up to people like Michael Gambon and Tommy Lee Jones, and I hope that as I mature I will become as craggy as them.”
― Burn Gorman
“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.”
― Burt Ward
“Growing up, I was fascinated with Buck Rogers’ airplanes. As I began to mature in World War II, it became jets and rocket planes. But it was always in the air.”
― Buzz Aldrin
“In a mature democracy, what is legal is decided by parliament… Our process is legitimised by parliament and by the ballot box.”
― Carles Puigdemont
“I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.”
― Carly Fiorina
“So I suppose this slightly mature fashion sense happened because of what I had.”
― Carly Simon
“After mature consideration it was unanimously agreed, that, to prevent as much as possible their attempting to return and molest the settlers that may be set down on their lands, a sufficient number of vessels should be hired with all possible expedition for that purpose.”
― Charles Lawrence
“Once I turned 40, my whole life changed in the most mature – not boring way but much cooler way. I feel much more like an adult.”
― Chelsea Handler
“Charan is very mature, and I see myself in him. He also gives equal importance to family, and as an actor, too, he does his job well.”
― Chiranjeevi
“I’m more mature, my game is more mature, and I can do a bunch of things on and off the court to fully maximize this team’s potential.”
― Chris Bosh
“I don’t know that ‘NCIS: Los Angeles’ is a complete reinvention, but I’m playing one of the guys in charge this time. Before I’d be cast as a young impressionable character. I think part of that is just being more mature.”
― Chris O’Donnell
“I’d like to think that I’m getting slightly more mature as time goes on, but I don’t know if my fiancee would necessarily agree.”
― Chris O’Dowd
“People mature. They learn. They get better at things. You’re different when you’re 45 than when you’re 25.”
― Christian Laettner
“If you are lucky, you go to a team like Porto to mature. And if things don’t go well for you, others take your place.”
― Clarence Seedorf
“I had the idea in my twenties that a writer could immediately become the late Henry James. Henry James himself had to mature. Even Saul Bellow did.”
― Cynthia Ozick
“Even when I think I’m writing really young, they say it’s too mature.”
― Cynthia Weil
“My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that’s why I’ve been seen as mature.”
― Dakota Fanning
“People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.”
― Daniel Goleman
“As I mature as a chef, I no longer aim to pack multiple techniques and ingredients into a single dish. Realizing that restraint is more difficult, I find it often renders incredibly beautiful results.”
― Daniel Humm
“You can’t predict the number of years it will take for someone to find themselves, to mature into their own voice. When I got to be 30, I was finally writing like Danny Brown.”
― Danny Brown
“Dorchester was probably the most important spell. I got kicked around a lot. I was young and it helped me mature as a man and a footballer.”
― Danny Ings
“As we become more spiritually mature and increasingly steadfast and immovable, we focus upon and strive to understand the fundamental and foundational doctrines of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ.”
― David A. Bednar
“When you get older, you mature, and you start liking flowers. Although I try and keep it manly.”
― David Beckham
“What we believe at Quantic Dream is that there is a space for adult games: meaningful experiences for a mature audience.”
― David Cage
“Each kid has a different level of expertise and some of them are very raw and inexperienced and some are incredibly mature and experienced. So you just have to go with what they are rather than have some abstract technique that you’re going to try to apply to them.”
― David Cronenberg
“I support a constitutional conversation, as the Labour Party does, which will allow New Zealanders to evolve a more mature and stable constitutional form, but that’s not something that I, as Labour Party, would want to impose, either on the party or on the public.”
― David Cunliffe
“’The X-Files,’ as I recall, we didn’t know really what we were until the middle of the first year. You know, so if we’d been cancelled, you get cancelled before you mature into what it is you can actually be, which is too bad.”
― David Duchovny
“Not that being so mature is a bad thing, but there are times to be mature and there are times to be loose.”
― David Gallagher
“The mature Anthropocene begins when we acquire the ability to live sustainably and become a lasting presence on this world.”
― David Grinspoon
“Any mature, responsible adult doesn’t run around stomping their feet and screaming ‘I’m a mature, responsible, adult.’”
― Debby Ryan
“Mature workers are less impulsive, less reactive, more creative and more centered.”
― Deepak Chopra
“In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.”
― Deepak Chopra
“I have considered myself a mature actor.”
― DeForest Kelley
“After a while, when the writer is mature, it doesn’t really matter – not because of finances but because of reputation. It doesn’t really matter how many awards you get.”
― Derek Walcott
“Gorillas are the largest of the great apes. A mature male may be six feet tall and weigh 400 pounds or more; his enormous arms can span eight feet.”
― Dian Fossey
“Reverse innovation is an innovation that is first adopted in developing markets and flows uphill to mature markets. This concept directs forward-looking companies to look beyond industrialized nations to draw new ideas, products, and processes from emerging economies.”
― Dinesh Paliwal
“In a mature democracy any proposed policy should be subjected to a close analysis of its likely benefits and costs.”
― Dominic Grieve
“Texas has an established trade office in Mexico City, as do other Texan cities. They have a more mature trade relationship with Mexico, and I want to make Arizona a leader in this area also.”
― Doug Ducey
“The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.”
― Douglas Engelbart
“It’s obviously important for the English national team if you have a lot of players playing big matches. You are more mature and know how to cope.”
― Edgar Davids
“I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to just over 40, really.”
― Edmund Hillary
“I’m a more mature actress now.”
― Eliza Dushku
“In humans, the thing is that as we mature, our telomeres slowly wear down. So the question has always been: ‘Did that matter?’ Well, more and more, it seems like it matters.”
― Elizabeth Blackburn
“My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.”
― Eminem
“Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’”
― Erich Fromm
“It is going to be difficult for the West Indies to get back to the top, but we got to start somewhere, and if playing young players is the way we have decided to go, these young players must be given the chance to mature and develop and not be discarded at an early age.”
― Fidel Edwards
“I’ve been put into a lot of situations that could be stressful. That’s really helped me mature, both as a performer and as a man.”
― Finn Balor
“The San Gabriel Mountains rise like a rampart at the edge of the city, safeguarding more than 500,000 acres of mature forests, mountain streams, dramatic waterfalls, and towering peaks that reach over 9,000 feet. These untamed places attract bighorn sheep, mountain lions, and other threatened or endangered species.”
― Frances Beinecke
“Certain product categories become less attractive for us because, as they become mature, they become low-cost, and hence, there is less to invent. There is less to invent in a television, whereas in heath technology, there is a lot to invent. So we wanted to put our innovative power to work where it really matters.”
― Frans van Houten
“When I became CEO, I was really worried that we were in commoditized segments that were mature and no longer growing. So we made a radical pivot into health technology because that is one of the world’s unmet needs.”
― Frans van Houten
“In documentary films, you’re a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.”
― Garth Stein
“Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.”
― Gary Hamel
“I’ve always been anti-marriage for men until they become mature. As a species we don’t mature until we’re in our 60s.”
― Gene Simmons
“Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.”
― George Pierce Baker
“In tumultuous times, it’s important to have a very mature leader.”
― Gordon Gee
“Mature striving is linked to long-range goals. Thus, the process of becoming is largely a matter of organizing transitory impulses into a pattern of striving and interest in which the element of self-awareness plays a large part.”
― Gordon W. Allport
“When I was 13, I looked like I could play 16, and I wasn’t mature enough to play 16.”
― Hailee Steinfeld
“It is very difficult for me to speculate as to how long it will take for the LTE-TDD ecosystem to mature. Of course, the whole industry is speaking of scale and a combination of scale in order to get more efficiency in the ecosystem.”
― Hans Vestberg
“I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.”
― Harriet Walter
“Where does an actress go after playing Cleopatra’s magnificent death? Why didn’t Shakespeare write more – and more powerful – roles for mature women?”
― Harriet Walter
“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”
― Henri Bergson
“The vesicles of the spleen, which form one of the most important elements of this organ in its mature state, are not developed until the period of incubation is near to its completion.”
― Henry Gray
“Analog components don’t ‘scale’ as well as digital components, but integrating them into relatively mature 28 nm platforms will accelerate the connection of everything from watches, personal healthcare, and home appliances to automotive, transportation, agriculture, manufacturing, and industrial controls.”
― Henry Samueli
“To be okay with not knowing is a sign of a mature person and a mature society.”
― Hisham Matar
“With each year that’s gone by, and as I grow up and get older, I’ve become more mature, of course, but you have a sense of who you are, and you find confidence in that.”
― Hope Solo
“Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.”
― Horace Mann
“To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely.”
― Hugo von Hofmannsthal
“Things evolve. People mature.”
― Ian Gillan
“I think there’s a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That’s probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a ‘mature’ record means.”
― Ian Williams
“I need to mature a bit – then I might have something to show for it.”
― Jack O’Connell
“It definitely toughens you up. It makes you mature from a young age, living away from home.”
― James Maddison
“As things mature – whether they be real estate, rock n’ roll, politics, festivals, radio – there’s an efficiency that develops, and with it, very often, comes some soul-crushing truths.”
― James Murphy
“I’ve always been interested in the paranormal, but ‘Gray Matter’ is a more subtle, mature expression of that – looking at the powers of the brain and more delicate evidence of the extraordinary.”
― Jane Jensen
“I’m a character actress, and my particular brand is more mature, so I had to wait until my age caught up with the tricks in my little arsenal.”
― Jane Lynch
“Also, as I’ve gotten older and more mature, I’ve become much more comfortable in my own skin. After 25 years of doing stand-up, that’s reflected onstage.”
― Janeane Garofalo
“I’m just going to make the music I love to make, and I’m going to mature with my music.”
― Jay-Z
“In my long and difficult and mature life, I have come to learn that the less I know about acting and the more I know about everything else, the better I’ll be at both acting and living.”
― Jean Seberg
“Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.”
― Jennifer Aniston
“A teenager can find lots of games, but that’s not necessarily true for adults over 30. As you get older, you desire more intellectual, emotional experiences. If you look at film, there’s many different genres. No matter how old you are, you can find the type of movie you like. That’s a sign of a mature medium.”
― Jenova Chen
“My kids seem to be more mature and older than I am now somehow. They’ve gotten ahead of me somehow. But they’re very patient with me.”
― Jerry Garcia
“I’m too mature to be angry.”
― Jesse Jackson
“People always grow and mature.”
― Jesse Jackson
“The markets where we’ve got real good presence are the older, more mature markets like Australia, and Western Europe – where we’ve only got 6,000 stores, compared to the US with 13,000.”
― Jim Cantalupo
“As a teenager, Tiger was self-assured and mature, yet also warm and charming. But the warm outward veneer gradually changed. When he pulled off his ‘win for the ages’ at the 1997 Masters, he already was sharing less of his softer, emotional side.”
― Jim Nantz
“I’m a baritone. Baritones don’t mature until late.”
― Joe Bastianich
“I like to think I’m a very mature person.”
― Joel Courtney
“’Vol. 3′ has broken down more barriers for us. We worked with different styles on this album. It’s more musically mature in arrangement and is conceptual.”
― Joey Jordison
“We don’t mature momentarily, but over the long-term.”
― John C. Maxwell
“Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.”
― John C. Maxwell
“As a person, you like to see young men mature.”
― John Dorsey
“We have affirmed the principle that a mature relationship between nations – as between individuals – can only flourish in an atmosphere of mutual respect.”
― John Gavin
“Our aim, during our Presidency in the next six months will be to lead this challenge, to show that Europe can function in a mature and responsible way, to start delivering tangible results that show we are taking people’s concerns seriously.”
― John Hutton
“I was never very mature in my relationships with women. First sign of conflict, I was gone.”
― John Mahoney
“No one wants pain. Not even long-time, mature Christians who want to grow. We will always find ways to avoid pain. Pain itself is a bad thing.”
― John Ortberg
“I’ve crossed every bridge to become a Premier League goalkeeper, I think I’m going in the right direction and I think I’m mature as a goalkeeper.”
― Jordan Pickford
“I know I’m only 24, but I know in my head already I am mature, because I’ve got the right mental side of it.”
― Jordan Pickford
“Self-control is one mark of a mature person; it applies to control of language, physical treatment of others, and the appetites of the body.”
― Joseph B. Wirthlin
“’Mature’ and ‘responsible’ are words I don’t understand.”
― Judy Carne
“The mark of a mature, psychologically healthy mind is indeed the ability to live with uncertainty and ambiguity, but only as much as there really is. Uncertainty is no virtue when the facts are clear, and ambiguity is mere obfuscation when more precise terms are applicable.”
― Julian Baggini
“I want to grow as an artist, and I’m taking a step out. I want my music to mature.”
― Justin Bieber
“I think as we get older, as we get more mature and more experienced, we do realize it’s like, ‘blah, blah, blah,’ oh there’s the information I need, and then ‘blah, blah, blah,’ right? So we do this triage, I feel like, of what people say to us.”
― Justine Bateman
“People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.”
― Karen Allen
“The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.”
― Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“I’m a mature person.”
― Karrueche Tran
“What I do think is really interesting is that, as I get older and more mature, I’m really attuned to how frightening this world is that we live in.”
― Karyn Kusama
“It was just me and my mum growing up, and my mum’s always said that’s why I’m so mature. We were best friends, and if it wasn’t for her, I wouldn’t even have started athletics, because she wanted me to have a hobby.”
― Katarina Johnson-Thompson
“I was lucky enough to be able to grow and mature in a natural way as an actress.”
― Kate Burton
“I can’t age on the inside, and I’m totally okay with that. I have no need to grow up and see myself as mature.”
― Kay Panabaker
“Being on a successful show is kind of like being a sea turtle. Every year, sea turtles lay hundreds and hundreds of eggs, but only a few manage to survive and mature. It’s the same with TV pilots. There are so many great ideas, but for whatever reason only the lucky ones get picked up.”
― Keiko Agena
“I have no sense of myself as a sex symbol at all. But the meaning of sex symbol might be a little different in Japan to elsewhere. The Japanese version seems to come with a stronger emphasis on a sort of grownup or mature male charm. And if that’s the case, then I guess I’m happy to hear it.”
― Ken Watanabe
“I think it’s hard to compare ‘Twitter’ and ‘Instagram’. Twitter has a more mature business.”
― Kevin Systrom
“After the World Cup, I feel more mature, more confident.”
― Kieran Trippier
“I’m very mature for my age, but I’m also innocent in a lot of ways.”
― Kirsten Dunst
“I love the whole makeup of men – that they never mature and are always just boys.”
― Krista Allen
“I went to school at the University of Utah, and they had outstanding facilities and coaches that helped me grow and mature as a person.”
― Kyle Kuzma
“I want to tap into different styles. Something definitely mature, sultry, sensual, easy listening that everyone can enjoy. Every one of every race and everyone that likes different styles.”
― LaToya London
“The point is, once they have a missile that can hit the United States, we are now back in the kind of game we used to worry about with the Soviet Union, only the Soviet Union was more mature about this whole thing than I think the North Koreans will be.”
― Lawrence Eagleburger
“It is hardly plausible to view a whole succession of logics as an evolutionary and functional program of innate wiring, particularly in light of the fact that the most mature logical structures are reached only by some adults.”
― Lawrence Kohlberg
“If I try to age more naturally without caging myself in, I believe I’ll be able to become a more mature adult.”
― Lee Min-ho
“People mature at different stages and I feel I’m learning a lot.”
― Lee Westwood
“I feel more mature than most people my age.”
― Leighton Meester
“We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.”
― Leon Jouhaux
“I started golfing at a young age, and growing up with two older brothers, it made me mature a lot younger.”
― Lexi Thompson
“Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.”
― Lionel Trilling
“The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal.”
― Lionel Trilling
“Young kids don’t have their identity, so everything is so important. Now I’m mature. I know who I am and I know what my thing is and I know what I’m bringing. It’s very clear and defined.”
― Liz Phair
“I really want to do more mature, artistic, twisted, edgy films. That is my goal.”
― Lucas Grabeel
“Our utilitarian structures will mature into architecture only when, through their fulfillment of function, they become carriers of the will of the age.”
― Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
“I’ve seen a lot and experienced so many different cultures, and that’s helped me a lot in my career and helped me mature as a person.”
― Luol Deng
“A lot of scouts and people are enamored with athleticism and youth. So they take that any day over mature, high-quality basketball players.”
― Malcolm Brogdon
“Guys are coming into the league a little more mature when they take the three or four years in college.”
― Malcolm Brogdon
“As we mature through the years, we access more deeply information we had only abstractly understood before.”
― Marianne Williamson
“As we mature, there are people with whom we run out of steam, but there are also those with whom a little straight talking would prove rewarding.”
― Mariella Frostrup
“I’m a Christian, and I forgive people. That’s the mature thing to do.”
― Mark Henry
“Because of the enormous responsibility, diabetic kids tend to grow up to be the most mature, most realistic people who have a natural desire to reach outside of themselves.”
― Mary Tyler Moore
“In a man, I like funny guys. A guy who doesn’t have a lot of therapy, who’s mature. A man, not a boy.”
― Maura Tierney
“I always had the street mentality, but when you’re older, you get more mature.”
― Metta World Peace
“There’s nothing more frustrating than seeing cynics sit there and say, ‘Well, nobody can make any more money because Microsoft and Intel own everything.’ Is the software industry mature, or is it embryonic? I would say it’s embryonic. There will be a hundred more Microsofts, not just one.”
― Michael J. Saylor
“My body had to mature, and my mind had to mature. I had to put these pieces together.”
― Michelle Carter
“I think every responsible public board at every board meeting should be discussing succession. And, of course, Walmart has a very mature board: our chairman Rob Walton and other members. So succession is an ongoing. I think when I first joined the board of directors, it was discussed then. And it’s discussed at every board meeting continually.”
― Mike Duke
“You see, dancers are quite mature people because they start performing so early. They become professionals when they start to take everyday classes.”
― Mikhail Baryshnikov
“I do intelligent roles. I don’t want to be labeled as doing silly movies. I’m more mature than kids my age because I’m constantly surrounded by adults.”
― Mischa Barton
“It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.”
― Montesquieu
“Mature roles full of substance the kind played by Robert De Niro and Al Pacino – my favourite actors – is what I want to do.”
― Nana Patekar
“I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.”
― Nanci Griffith
“Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he’s obviously got a very mature head on his shoulders. He’s got a kind of presence.”
― Nick Price
“But I also think it’s up to the fan base to call in the radio stations and demand that the more mature artists be played as well.”
― Nickolas Ashford
“I can’t think of a single example of two mature democracies going to war with each other in the 20th century. It’s where there was an absence of democracy and a breakdown of democracy that we finish up with these wars.”
― Nigel Farage
“You got to grow up and mature when you see you’ve got something going for real.”
― Offset
“At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.”
― Orhan Pamuk
“I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.”
― Orson Welles
“I feel about 18, but my mind is much more mature now, so it’s a perfect combination.”
― Oxana Chusovitina
“Jeans fit the mature male one of two ways, both dirigible in nature. You make a public impression that’s either Hindenburg or Goodyear blimp.”
― P. J. O’Rourke
“I’m more mature. I respect more the game as I should.”
― Pablo Sandoval
“Young people are forced to mature sooner now than in the ’40s. I was doing things at age 14 that guys in the movie were just beginning to do at 16 and 17.”
― Parker Stevenson
“From United’s point of view, it is always difficult to tell just when a young footballer is going to mature into a first-class professional ready to play at the highest level, but the story of how Pogba slipped away from United has more than one strand to it.”
― Paul Scholes
“The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds – they mature slowly.”
― Peter De Vries
“Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.”
― Peter De Vries
“Mr. Corbyn reminds mature people of the days when the big parties really differed. He impresses the young because he doesn’t patronise them, and obviously believes what he says.”
― Peter Hitchens
“It’s great playing a mature character. It adds something.”
― Phyllis Logan
“Even in mature economies, digital’s benefits to society are substantial.”
― Pierre Nanterme
“No one in the Indian team gave me tips, but I should be mature enough to grasp little things by watching them train and play.”
― Prithvi Shaw
“What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.”
― R. Buckminster Fuller
“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.”
― R. D. Laing
“One of the things I enjoy most during the World Cup is watching a team improve, mature, and gel during the course of the tournament.”
― Rabih Alameddine
“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.”
― Raf Simons
“A guy may wear a suit and have a high-paying job and appear very mature, but essentially, he’s a 14-year-old boy.”
― Rainn Wilson
“You grow, you mature, you live, and you learn. You get a little wiser, and you learn better ways to handle things.”
― Rakim
“You only mature when you face problems you can’t deal with.”
― Ralph Waite
“I think ’24’ is a more mature audience, whereas ‘Heroes’ is a little bit younger. But I have to say, neither one is child friendly. My daughter doesn’t get to watch either show!”
― Rena Sofer
“Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile. Travel abroad and learn to live in other cultures. That’s one of the things about teaching abroad.”
― Richard K. Morgan
“Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile.”
― Richard K. Morgan
“I never wanted to be aligned to a mature group because they go off and become politicians and stuff.”
― Richard O’Brien
“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.”
― Richard Rohr
“As I get older and more mature, my artwork changes accordingly.”
― Rob Liefeld
“They always say girls mature faster than boys, but I don’t think that’s true because I think girls just are more mature than boys. We’re always trying to catch up to them.”
― Rob Reiner
“It’s an honor to be able to get in the fray and be a strong, mature voice for Coloradans, a voice uncensored and uncontrolled by the permanent political class in Washington.”
― Robert Blaha
“But above that, most mature adults can hold their attention on something for 45 minutes, whether they like it or not. But above that requires training.”
― Robert Fripp
“The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They’re very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged.”
― Robert Morgan
“Russia’s oil fields are mature and require capital and Western technology even to keep production flat.”
― Roger Altman
“Consequently, a young business often grows by large percentages. Mature businesses rarely do.”
― Roy H. Williams
“A feeling for equal rights for other human beings cannot exist in adults if a feeling for authority is not implanted in them during childhood. Otherwise, adults will never become mature enough to recognize the rights of others.”
― Rudolf Steiner
“I got married at 20, and I was not a real mature 20. My first child was born when I was 21.”
― Ryan O’Neal
“Naga Shaurya is a silent person and doesn’t talk to anyone on the sets. But when he faces the camera, he is a different person altogether. As an actor, he is very mature.”
― Sai Pallavi
“A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.”
― Salman Rushdie
“We get older, we get more mature and stronger mentally. You learn to deal with different situations.”
― Samir Nasri
“The idea that certain things in life – and in the universe – don’t yield up their secrets is something that requires a slightly more mature reader to accept.”
― Samuel R. Delany
“In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems.”
― Sargent Shriver
“I want to be the first lady to land a quadruple jump in competition. As I grow older, I know that my skating style will develop and mature.”
― Sasha Cohen
“At the point when I lost my father, it really made me want to be like a father and be like my father. It was a real turning point for me because it helped me mature – it made me think about being responsible because I wasn’t the only one I had to think about.”
― Scottie Pippen
“Some age, others mature.”
― Sean Connery
“To me all men are boy-men. I don’t know any man that’s actually mature.”
― Seth Rogen
“I am a mature, professional cricketer who fully fathoms the trends and experiences the game has to offer.”
― Shahid Afridi
“I like to think of ‘Illuminate’ as the mature version of the previous one, a year older, more experience.”
― Shawn Mendes
“I had a little gut check, and ultimately, I grew up as far as my MMA mentality and am more mature now.”
― Shayna Baszler
“Anyway, I went out and bought thousands of dollars worth of mature clothes so I’d look like a person to be taken seriously, instead of a pretty little twit.”
― Shelley Duvall
“I hate that word, mature, but I guess I am growing up.”
― Sheryl Crow
“I worked really hard and changed myself and became a more mature player.”
― Shikhar Dhawan
“Whenever I have experienced failure in my career, those experiences have made me more mature as a player.”
― Shikhar Dhawan
“With time, you do get mature.”
― Shikhar Dhawan
“I think they will feel refreshed because I cater to a mature audience.”
― Slick Rick
“When you have a kid, you have to be more mature.”
― Sofia Vergara
“I was always mature for my age.”
― Soon-Yi Previn
“As a young man, I feel as if it’s all about progressing. I may have had to mature a little faster than others, but no worries. I took it on full steam and led by example off the field.”
― Stefon Diggs
“It’s just as easy to buy a $12,000 watch in East Hampton as it is to pick up a carton of milk, and new homeowners are so impatient that they landscape their front lawns with ‘mature gardens’ of full-grown trees.”
― Steven Gaines
“As a mature and responsible nation, one of India’s foreign policy interests is to evolve a regional architecture based on the twin principles of shared security and shared prosperity.”
― Sushma Swaraj
“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.”
― T. S. Eliot
“Boys are so much less mature than girls as it is.”
― Taylor Momsen
“I was always a big fan of waiting a year of two to groom an NFL quarterback; let him learn and mature.”
― Terrell Davis
“Hargrave made me mature. It made me grow up, and I needed that.”
― Terry Rozier
“You gotta mature, you know.”
― The Notorious B.I.G.
“Mature? Yeah, I get told that a lot. I don’t know if it’s true. I guess I try to be bright.”
― Thomas Horn
“Women waited 144 years before earning suffrage. If a mature, multiparty democracy was so darn easy, everybody would have one.”
― Thomas P.M. Barnett
“People always accuse us of being overprotective with Beyonce. But I was the mother saying, ‘You gonna go hang out? You gonna go to this party?’ She was always just so durn easy, so durn mature.”
― Tina Knowles
“I’ve been able to mature and improve my mixed martial arts game completely; I just never stop learning, and whenever I think I know enough, I just keep working and do more.”
― Tito Ortiz
“It’s easy to say you’re more mature because all of a sudden you have a child, but it’s a process.”
― Tony Romo
“I was not developmentally disabled, but didn’t mature at the same rate other kids did.”
― Tucker Max
“I’m glad I had to wait until my 40s for success. I was not a mature young man and would probably have gone off the rails.”
― Ty Burrell
“When I hear people express extreme optimism about the Internet, I say, we’ve had it in mature form for about ten years. Macroeconomically speaking, those are about the worst 10 years we’ve had since about the 1930s. I don’t blame the Internet for that – that would be ridiculous.”
― Tyler Cowen
“I realize that I’m a mature woman and one of these days, incredible diet or not, I’ll be a little old lady.”
― Victoria Moran
“When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.”
― Victoria Principal
“Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.”
― W. Somerset Maugham
“Has the smartphone begun to mature, plateau out?”
― Walt Mossberg
“The American male doesn’t mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities.”
― Wilfrid Sheed
“It would have been nice for Greg to eventually grow into a mature relationship with Laura. He was moving toward that already but then took a turn into the juvenile with Paige.”
― William Devane
“Phil has the classic, mature beard. Jase’s is kind of red – it’s weird, like him! Jep grooms his the most: He’s got all these special lotions and perfumes that he puts on.”
― Willie Robertson
“YouTube has become more mature, both as a platform and as a community. So much content has been added in almost every conceivable category that there are no more free passes on just getting there first. I think there are greater expectations for audience participation, the kind of participation that makes a real impact in a show’s community.”
― Ze Frank
“As you grow older, your music begins to mature and grow older along with you.”
― Zendaya
“I’m convinced that what kids need today are parents – not buddies. They need someone who will exercise mature judgment.”
― Zig Ziglar
“Kids instinctively know – although they will argue to the contrary – that they really are not mature enough to make good decisions on some important issues.”
― Zig Ziglar
“The U.S. and European markets have become mature, profit margins are lower, and equipment isn’t so new. Because profits are relatively low, it limits the willingness of companies to invest in newer equipment.”
― Zong Qinghou
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