249 Quotes About Maturation

As is the case with many adolescents, Lewis's increased command over over the things of the world brought with it a corresponding atrophy of the moral sense.

Not every story started off big enough to notice.

As soon as (Teddy Roosevelt) received an assignment for a paper or project, he would set to work, never leaving anything to the last minute. Prepared so far ahead "freed his mind" from worry and facilitated fresh, lucid thought.

The Yale graduate who had refused to read outside the course curriculum (the future Pres. Taft) suddenly found himself inspired.

In being able to learn from his mistakes and grow, Eisenhower "was transformed from a mere person into a personage.

She was too well-trained to panic.

Apprehension of a painful or disagreeable recognition made me tremble. I am confident that it took no distinctness of shape, and that it was the revival for a few minutes of the terror of childhood.

What delicious abandon in the sleep of the child. Where do we lose it?

His childhood passed in quiet anxiety.