Maturation Quotes

You are the gatekeeper of your child’s mental diet.

~ Gary Chapman

Considerable social science research has found that constant praise of children can backfire, because it so often consists of telling children how smart they are, not of praising children for the things they actually do. As a result, many children become protective of their image of being smart and are reluctant to take chances that might actually damage that image.

~ Charles Murray

One of the benefits the authors point out of discussing logical consequences with children rather than handing out arbitrary punishments is that the practice gives THEM the language to discuss One of the benefits the authors point out of discussing logical consequences with children rather than handing out arbitrary punishments is that the practice gives THEM the language to discuss seting boundaries and making decisions, even in conflicts with their friends.

~ Adele Faber

What makes a mother? Looking at your child and identifying emotion

~ Jennifer Senior

So it was a crossroads summer, when the universe seemed to stand perilously still like an egg wobbling on a precipice, a regular rite of passage summer that saw us traverse the hazardous divide between the illusions of boyhood and the far more pernicious deceptions of maturity, et cetera.

~ Sol Luckman

Facebook is the perfect place to try on different identities until she finds one that sticks.

~ Brooke Hauser

He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age. But to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.

~ Plato

Courage was not something one picked out of the air. It was something like a bank account. You could withdraw only so much before it was necessary to stop, to take the time to make new deposits.

~ Tom Clancy

Character is the main object of education.

~ Mary Wooley

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom when the passions relax their hold, then, as Sophocles says, we are free from the grasp, not of one mad master only, but of many.

~ Plato

Growing old is humbling and it takes effort to accomplish this stage of life with dignity.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Nietzsche tended to equate the memorable with the painful.

~ Harold Bloom

You never can tell about these mild-mannered boys.

~ James Carl Nelson

If you're having a conversation with someone in speech, and it's not being tape-recorded, you can change your opinion, but on the Internet, it's not like that. On the Internet it's almost as if everything you say were being tape-recorded. You can't say, I changed my mind.

~ Sherry Turkle

He found his voice in the silences, where he could sing as loud and as long as he wanted with no one to complain of it.

~ Geraldine Brooks

We see a first generation going through adolescence knowing their every misstep, all the awkward gestures of their youth, are being frozen in a computer's memory.

~ Sherry Turkle

Regular, modest failures are actually essential to many forms of resilience.

~ Andrew Zolli

He had the ruthlessness of uninterrupted success.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

Possibly, there was something to be said for the intellectual discipline of second-guessing what you thought was true.

~ Kwame Anthony Appiah

I was only 44, which is childhood philosophy.

~ Will Durant

Development is a voluntary process. You need a positive decision to make the right steps, but it starts with introspection.

~ Thomas L. Friedman

A man is as old as his arteries and as young as his ideas.

~ Will Durant

One of the ladies asked about that awful Bobby Kennedy, and Goldwater responded by speaking about the attorney general with touching affection. (Mary) McGrory recalled how Jack Kennedy behaved at a similar stage in his campaign: spouting statistics, attacking carefully chosen enemies and puffing all the right friends, quoting dead Greeks, never cracking a joke lest he remind the voters how young he was.

~ Rick Perlstein

Abilene had gone from boomtown to Bible Belt, from whorehouses to schoolmarms, without any of the intervening phases.

~ David Brooks

No one can become and remain a theologian unless he is compelled again and again to be astonished at himself.

~ Karl Barth

I was young enough to be an optimist.

~ Mike Mussina

The older they get, the better they get when they were younger

~ Jim Bouton

High school games would just as big a deal to me as any major league game.

~ Jim Bouton

The letter is too belligerent. If I were you, I would state the facts as they were, without the pepper and salt. Abraham Lincoln

~ Harold Holzer

I work pretty hard for a sufficient living, and therefore – yes, I do well.

~ Charles Dickens

Barfield understood his epochal experience are not as a rebound from love sickness, but as a spiritual epiphany that cured a spiritual illness.

~ Philip Zaleski

We need to forgive the adolescent versions of ourselves, if only because we need the practice to forgive those who are maturing awkwardly in our lives.

~ Madam Secretary

Perhaps wherever you go first is what you judge everything else by.

~ Patrick Hennessey

Americans have a tendency to take much of our long-term economic, technological, medical, and social progress for granted, while assuming problems will only get worse. This is unwarranted.

~ Rachel Dicarlo Currie

We grow before we even know what growth means. We just know, I see things differently now.

~ Girl Meets World

Theodore Roosevelt came to Dekota to experience the dying of one age with the slaying of a rare buffalo and the dawning of the West's industrial age.

~ H.w. Brands

At 17, the gratitude part of their brain is a little undercooked.

~ Last Man Standing

He was not at all what is called ‘a character’. He was an innocent, affable old man who had somehow preserved his good humor – much more than that, a mysterious and tranquil joy – throughout a life which to all outward observation had been overloaded with misfortune. He had like many another been born in full sunlight and lived to see night fall.

~ Evelyn Waugh

When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business – that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time.

~ George Eliot

Like everyone I slipped into adulthood like a delinquent through the back door.

~ Charles Finch