Mature Enough Quotes

#1. A dog, for me, it's not just getting a dog. I couldn't leave him at home. I'm looking for a life partner and I'm not ready. I'm not emotionally mature enough.

Zac Efron

#2. Quercus: oak tree. The oak takes an extraordinarily long time to produce seeds. While some plants and trees do so within days or weeks, the oak can take up to fifty years to mature enough before it's ready for offspring. The same can be said for certain people who shall remain nameless.

Deb Caletti

#3. You Have To Be Mature Enough For A Kid Inside You!

Sundeep Lal

#4. 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

#5. Children under the age of 16, 17, or even 18 are generally not psychologically or emotionally mature enough to consent fully to sexual relationships with adults, or to participate in them on an equal footing.

Janet Bode

#6. My take is you "should" become a parent if and when you're ready for it! Could be when you're twenty or when you're forty. I don't think age really matters if you are mature enough and have enough love within you.

Hannah Sullivan

#7. By high school, some girls may be mature enough to be sexually active, but my experience is that the more mature and healthy girls avoid sex.

Mary Pipher

#8. I started modeling quite young. I would really recommend to every girl not to start modeling until they turn 17, to be honest. Before that, I think you're not mature enough.

Anja Rubik

#9. it appears that my bourgeois education inculcated hopelessly false notions of taste and morality, and along with them the pressing need to disseminate them by leadership. By the time I was mature enough to ofer them, society had developed and no longer felt in need of my mildewed fruits.

Elizabeth Mavor

#10. Children are not always mature enough to follow advice but often learn from the example of others.

Brian Michael Good

#11. I sound like Jesse Jackson or Martin Luther King, but I honestly feel like the world is mature enough. And, for me, I just want to do good roles.

Marlon Wayans

#12. I was on the point of saying something about the power of positive thinking, but anyone who's reached the age of thirty ought to know at a glance when something is irredeemably fucked, and be mature enough to admit it.

Eileen Curtright

#13. I misjudged her, wasn't mature enough to understand how difficult it was for her.

Anne Frank

#14. 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

#15. I wonder who in their right mind thought I was mature enough for this: motherhood, home ownership, a career, adulthood in general. I hope I have them all fooled, that I have any clue at all what I'm doing.

Cassandra Dunn

#16. Mankind is not yet mature enough to take responsability for its mistakes.

Chris Wooding

#17. That's my dream to be old enough and mature enough that I won't be considered an "old lady" if I have a house with a barn. Because I already do needlepoint.

Emmy Rossum

#18. Music actually meant something when I started doing it. Too bad I wasn't mature enough to write anything that meant anything.

John Mellencamp

#19. I like to think I am confident and secure and mature enough to know Nick loves me without him constantly proving it. I don't need pathetic dancing monkey
scenarios to repeat to my friends, I am content with letting him be himself.
I don't know why women find that so hard.

Gillian Flynn

#20. 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

#21. We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven't become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a vast and incredible universe.

Rachel Carson

#22. I can be the mayor; I can do it right now. I can go in there right now and put things together. I was truly anointed for that position and I wasn't mature enough in my spirit, in my manhood to handle that responsibility at the time it was given to me.

Kwame Kilpatrick

#23. Anyone with the maturity to surrender entirely to God is mature enough for God to use.

Beth Moore

#24. You are your child's keeper until she's mature enough to keep herself.

Laura Ramirez

#25. At 18, if I am mature enough to vote a leader for the nation's betterment, why am I ineligible to choose what I shall study for my own betterment?

Anand J.

#26. Some people should never be told truth. Their stomachs are not mature enough for that type of food

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#27. A major threshold is passed when you mature enough to acknowledge what drives you, and to take the wheel and steer it.

Andrew Stanton

#28. She was intelligent enough to realize that her excitement was childish, but not mature enough to care.

China Mieville

#29. Life isn't static, and sometimes, we don't realize the value of knowledge or even of people, until farther down the track, when we're mature enough to truly understand.

Nalini Singh

#30. Immanuel Kant believed that we humans, because we are so emotionally complex, go through two puberties in life. The first puberty is when our bodies become mature enough for sex; the second puberty is when our minds becomes mature enough for sex.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#31. There are some questions that shouldn't be asked until a person is mature enough to appreciate the answers.

Anne Bishop

#32. And when you find love, or when you are mature enough to understand it, the feeling you get is gratitude.

Donald Miller

#33. When I was 13, I looked like I could play 16, and I wasn't mature enough to play 16.

Hailee Steinfeld

#34. I don't know if any of us are mature enough to handle the brutal honesty of what's inside other people's heads.

James Marsters

#35. School bored me. Being educated and being intelligent are two different things. I thought I was smart enough. And I wanted to be an entertainer. I stopped going to school as a way of saying I was mature, a way of saying I was going to choose who I was going to become.

Djimon Hounsou

#36. Adults had the notion that juveniles needed to suffer. Only when they had suffered enough to wipe out most of their naturally joyous spirits and innocence were they staid enough to be considered mature. An adult was essentially a broken-down child.

Piers Anthony

#37. And I said well luckily I was mature and old enough to take this success at my age. It was bullshit.

Nicholas Evans

#38. Horses and jockeys mature earlier than people - which is why horses are admitted to racetracks at the age of two, and jockeys before they are old enough to shave.

Dick Beddoes

#39. The world of sexuality it finds is not entirely mature and pure, it is not human enough, only virile, rut, intoxication, restlessness, and weighed down by the old prejudices and arrogance with which men have disfigured and overburdened love.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#40. I was lucky enough to be able to grow and mature in a natural way as an actress.

Kate Burton

#41. Character, not passion keeps marriages together long enough to do their work of raising children into mature, responsible, productive citizens.

Frank Pittman

#42. When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.

Charles Kuralt

#43. I don't think I'm going to get so mature that I lose touch with the whatever wounded part of myself that feels the need to be funny. I'm already old enough that I realize that's not going to happen.

Judd Apatow

#44. She knew Neal loved her.
Good for him for realizing it wasn't enough to make him happy. That was very mature of him. He was probably saving them both a lot of heartache.

Rainbow Rowell

#45. The very young woman can be charming and delightful and pretty but only a mature woman can be beautiful; and only a mature man can be strong enough to be tender.

Madeleine L'Engle

#46. Mature Woman: Is a woman who has lived her life enough to understand what she wants, and she is confident in knowing who she is without question.

Steven Cuoco

#47. I think a Moon base is not necessary to get to Mars, but I think it will be helpful. It would give you a chance to develop and mature some systems; long duration, deep space stuff; and you're close enough to get some help, via radio from Earth.

Charles Duke

#48. Life was all about choices. You chose what to make out of what you had. And I wasn't going to let it make me its bitch. I could be a mature adult who knew her limits. I could be a good person. Maybe not all the time, but enough.

Mariana Zapata

#49. Maturity is humility. It is being big enough to say, "I was wrong." And, when he/she is right, the mature person need not experience the satisfaction of saying, "I told you so."

Ann Landers