Top 100 More Mature Quotes
#1. I would like to have a girlfriend who is more mature than my mental age.
Yuki
#2. 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
#3. Why are people afraid of getting older? You feel wiser. You feel more mature. You feel like you know yourself better. You would trade that for softer skin? Not me!
Anna Kournikova
#4. If you ever start thinking that any of them are developmentally more mature than a high school boy, just remember they named their dogs after beer.
Kaya McLaren
#5. I was getting close to thirty and was trying on the idea of becoming more mature. I was reading more. I had gone out and bought a lot of shirts.
Joe Meno
#6. I am not the same man I was 35 years ago. And I hope that five years and ten years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.
Louis Farrakhan
#7. The ideal is that your faith not be rigid and unpliable, but instead that it is capable of being stretched and remolded over time, and that your theological and spiritual life grows deeper and more mature with the passing years.
Adam Hamilton
#8. As I grew older and more mature, I've been able to move beyond the immediate response of violence to a projection of the pragmatic, political consequences of that violence. So it's an effort to attain equilibrium.
Wole Soyinka
#9. If a man becomes more mature due to certain episodes in his life, it gives him the opportunity to look at life in a much more deep way. I believe the artist and the man work parallel, with the same feelings, the same soul, the same sensitivity.
Jose Carreras
#10. I think I'm in the same mood as ever, but in some ways more mature. I guess you could say that, at 65, when you've seen the world shape up as I have, there are only two things you can do: laugh or kill yourself.
John Le Carre
#11. Over the years, with all the experience, I've become more mature about the subjects I pick. I have a better understanding of what works at the box office. Once the story is finalised, I surrender to the director and follow him. After that, my performances speak for themselves.
Mahesh Babu
#12. I'm trying to be a little bit more mature about my choices and think about what I want to direct next, instead of just jumping into a movie 'cause I want to do it.
Brett Ratner
#13. And girls are much more mature." Eve nodded wisely. "So you're about ten years older than Shane, then.
Rachel Caine
#14. Those of us who have reached our more mature years know the value of a nap, Maisie, and we can indulge ourselves without the comfort of pillow or bed.
Jacqueline Winspear
#15. When you're in the entertainment industry, you have to be more mature, be able to hang with the adults.
Alexander Gould
#16. 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
#17. I'm going to get married again because I'm more mature now, and I need some kitchen stuff.
Wendy Liebman
#18. A young artist's career is a matter of claiming a place for oneself, of saying, "I am here." Having gone through that phase, a more mature artist can concentrate on truly developing talent and vision.
Wafaa Bilal
#19. You get older and more mature ... you just kind of go with the flow.
Carl Crawford
#20. We've been given the covenant community because we need each other, and together we'll be more mature, experience more life, and know more joy than we ever would apart from one another.
Matt Chandler
#21. 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
#22. I grew up in the 1930s Great Depression when many families struggled to make ends meet, and in an area where old-fashioned country gospel music was popular. Later, as an adult with a more mature outlook on Christianity, I realized that a lot of that music was rather shallow.
Jerry Bridges
#23. I think when people make a record with a goal in mind - like taking it to the next level or making them seem more mature - that gets in the way of writing great songs.
Taylor Swift
#24. Grace doesn't give me a free pass to act out how I feel, with no regard to His commands. Rather, His grace gives me consolation in the moment, with a challenge to learn from this situation and become more mature in the future.
Lysa TerKeurst
#26. 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
#27. Well, once you've resigned yourself to the fact that you are the more mature pop performer and you're past the age you ever thought you would do it, you might as well do it as long as you can. As long as I can still lift a microphone, then I'll do it, you know.
Jarvis Cocker
#28. I'm older today than yesterday, and therefore I must be more mature.
Jarod Kintz
#29. Percy (talking about Annabeth):I found myself staring at her, which was stupid since I'd seen her a billion times. Still, she seemed so much more mature. It was kind of intimidating. I mean, sure, she'd always been cute, but she was starting to be seriously beautiful.
Rick Riordan
#30. I wish I had been more mature. I wish I had handled the immediate aftermath of the accident involving my family better.
Joe Biden
#31. Caesar was too old, it seems to me, to go off and amuse himself conquering the world. Such a pastime was all right for Augustus and Alexander; they were young men, not easily held in check, but Caesar ought to have been more mature.
Blaise Pascal
#32. My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.
Eminem
#33. I really want to do more mature, artistic, twisted, edgy films. That is my goal.
Lucas Grabeel
#35. I think, when I was younger, I was cooking to impress. Sometimes the dish would have 15 things on the plate. That's cooking only for yourself. As you get more mature, you take all the superfluous things away, and you get the essential flavor. Now I cook for people, not for myself.
Jean-Georges Vongerichten
#36. I would've liked to think I looked a little more mature than the rest of the girls in the class. Then again, with the majority of them being PTs, I probably looked the most like a fourteen-year-old."
-Devon
First & Then
Emma Mills
#37. I made a more mature approach to industrial music.
David Bowie
#38. You were honest and hardworking and kind. You were polite and patient and more mature than any guy I'd dated before. And when we were together, you listened in a way that made me feel like I was the only woman in the world. You made me feel complete and spending time with you just seemed right.
Nicholas Sparks
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. I think it's hard to compare 'Twitter' and 'Instagram'. Twitter has a more mature business.
Kevin Systrom
#42. I can't believe people got so upset at the sight of a single breast! America is so parochial, I may just have to move to Europe where people are more mature about things like that!
Janet Jackson
#43. Study God's word to show thyself approved and be prepared for the tests that we are given. They make our faith stronger and our character more mature, so that our lives better glorify the Lord.
Calvin W. Allison
#44. 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
#45. It's always my goal to be more mature-sounding, more convincing, but also more experimental, and more challenging for myself. If it's not a little bit harder every time I make a new track, then I'm being lazy.
Lotic
#46. If we accept that we have at least an iota of free will, we cannot throw it back the moment things go wrong. Like a human parent, God will help us when we ask for help, but in a way that will make us more mature, more real, not in a way that will diminish us.
Madeleine L'Engle
#47. Beyonce is more mature, she's her own woman. She always had it in her.
Rodney Jerkins
#48. 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
#49. When I was 12, I did my first sort of speaking role. But I wouldn't say I had a passion for it from the start. It developed as I started to become a bit more mature.
Yasmin Paige
#50. Just like in any relationship, things changed. We changed. We both made mistakes and we both learned a lot. We may love each other differently, but maybe that is a good thing. Maybe it is more forgiving and more mature, or maybe it is just different.
Chris Kyle
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. '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
#54. 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
#55. That was what maturity was: accepting things. The more things you accepted, the more mature you were.
David Burr Gerrard
#56. I'm very much disciplined because I'm more mature. When I was young I just wanted to live, I could jump, I could run, I was quick and I was relentless.
Bernie Mac
#57. There are different kinds of truth. And if our kind is more mature than theirs, it's so only because we know that.
Sylvia Engdahl
#58. I am more mature. I'm a better football player. I just feel like this is my time.
Ricky Williams
#59. When you have a kid, you have to be more mature.
Sofia Vergara
#60. So many people comment that I'm much more mature than average. In this business, you can get taken advantage of if you're not aware and you're not tough.
Amanda Bynes
#61. I'm 24 years old and yeah, I'm a different person and I'm definitely more mature, but these are the tops that I'm going to keep on wearing.
Kendra Wilkinson
#62. Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for such diversion later in life.
George Andrew Olah
#63. I'd sort of acquired somewhat more mature perspective on what my career is and I don't ... not anymore ... consider fame and fortune my career. I'm not a star. I'm an actor. So in a way, what I want to do as an actor, I would consider good for my career. Does that make sense?
Christoph Waltz
#64. Interdependence is a far more mature, more advanced concept. If I am physically interdependent, I am self-reliant and capable, but I also realize that you and I working together can accomplish far more than, even at my best, I could accomplish alone.
Stephen R. Covey
#65. I do want to believe that there's some place in the world that's more mature than high school," Vicky said. "But I haven't found it yet.
Leila Sales
#66. I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.
Carly Fiorina
#67. 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
#68. I am getting more mature and can handle the pressure better.
Yani Tseng
#69. The more mature a soul, the less it blames others.
Toba Beta
#70. 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
#71. Most married people can expect a specific other person to be there for them in a way that a single person typically cannot. Does that make married people more mature than single people?
Married people are on training wheels. Singles are riding the bikes for grown-ups.
Bella DePaulo
#72. As I became more mature I realized that failure is part of success.
Robert G. Allen
#73. She was irritated, briefly, by the thought that she might be becoming more mature. Why should she become a better person when no one else did?
Sophie Hannah
#74. How many exes do you have? You're like a fame-whore, female pop star gone wild after she left her sock puppets show for more mature gig.
Rea Lidde
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. With Twilight's core of under-18 fans, "it would be a crime against our audience to go R-rated." However, "this is based on a much more mature book [Breaking Dawn,Stephenie Meyer]. We need to progress and be more sophisticated."
Wyck Godfrey
#79. I've been singing about love a long time now, because my kind of love carries a different flavor. My lyrics are not so outrageous as some. You have to think about a lot of different things. You get more mature with what you do - more experience, more capable, you know, the older you get.
Burning Spear
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. I hope to always be myself, except more mature and knowing more.
David Archuleta
#83. I want to play women my own age, rather than artificially 'de-age' myself so that I can play women who are younger or much younger than I am. I want to grow into those kind of more mature parts, not try and keep them at bay for as long as I possibly can.
Cherie Lunghi
#84. Now that I'm more mature, in a funny way, I can even appreciate that I've bad to become more aware of my body. Since I've chosen acting as my career, I have to keep my weight down anyway-I've been used to it for years, so it's no problem. And there's nothing I can't do.
Dana Hill
#85. The "growing" we attribute to becoming more mature, could be more accurately described as "shrinking," as we cut away the nonsense that emotionally weighs us down.
Steve Maraboli
#86. The older theory was, marry an older man because they're more mature. But the new theory is men don't mature. Marry a younger one.
Rita Rudner
#88. As we become more mature in faith, learning to trust that God is capable of all things, we will see God as bigger and bigger every time we encounter Him.
Tracie Miles
#89. Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering.
Bill Gates
#90. I feel about 18, but my mind is much more mature now, so it's a perfect combination.
Oxana Chusovitina
#91. Raydiation is more mature, reveals more about me personally and focuses on singing and songs that people can relate to.
Ray J
#92. Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
Albert Einstein
#93. Toxins love to get you while you're young. Lead, mercury, secondhand smoke and sundry other environmental nasties do a lot more damage when tissue is immature, vulnerable and growing than when it's mature and comparatively fixed.
Jeffrey Kluger
#94. Because a football game is just sixty minutes, but I'm training six, seven hours in every day. So, going for sixty minutes becomes easy. More importantly, I think that your muscles mature and can move in all different directions.
Ray Lewis
#95. 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
#96. Grass that is here today and gone tomorrow does not require much time to mature. A giant oak tree that lasts for generations requires much more time to grow strong.
Henry T. Blackaby
#97. In a series of wonderful essays, Evan Handler gives himself up to us - warts and all. To our amusement and bemusement we share in his emotional growth as he struggles to mature. I not only laughed along with him but felt that I too had grown a little along the way. Who could ask for more?
Lewis Black
#98. As you grow and mature, you will want and will earn more freedom to live your lives your way and to make your own choices. This you should do.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#99. I want to be a little more dramatic nowadays. I definitely want something big and funny, but I look for things that can just have people see me in a different light and let me mature as both an entertainer and an actor and a comedian.
Cedric The Entertainer
#100. The only choice we have as we mature is how we inhabit our vulnerability, how we become larger and more courageous and more compassionate through our intimacy with disappearance...
David Whyte
