249 Quotes About Maturation

The fact is, man has never stayed by a single ideal. The mass enthusiasm when you were young gave way to cool, rationalistic classicism. Today that’s being drowned in turn by a kind of neoromanticism. God knows where that will lead. I probably won’t approve. Regardless, new generations grow up. We’ve no right to freeze them into our own mold. The universe is too wide.

She was torn between her customer service training and her youthful certitude.

Nations as well as men require time to learn, whatever may be their intelligence or zeal.

In the context of today, this WAS heroism.

The author jokes that the culture at his first job at Entertainment Weekly chased away the worthwhile aspects of his Brown education, but in so doing he makes a subtle point about the profound impact of the culture with which we surround ourselves and how easily we can be defined and constrained by our jobs.

More depended on the student than on the school.

The writer as boxer says he develops by, "learning from everyone who'll spar with me.

Jefferson was the rare student who came to college already knowing that there could be joy in studying.

He has not shown the special interest in reading that we should like to see but he likes shop work. George H. W. Bush's parents on his Andover application