Mine is, after all, the generation that had come to maturity drinking in the forebodings of the Silones, Koestlers, and Richard Wrights. It had left us ill-prepared for decisions that had to be made in our own time about Algeria, Birmingham, or the Bay of Pigs.

We've been branded 'the thinking man's hip-hop.' So the music's got to have some level of maturity.

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

I think part of maturity as an actress comes from their experience in getting married and having children.

In the end, it's a mental maturity to let your best come out.

Growing up, your whole goal and dream is to make the NHL. Once you get there, you kind of have to expand your goals on and off the ice. It took a little bit of time for me to do that, but again, with age and maturity you understand what you want more and how to achieve those things.

Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.

I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.

I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.

I think some people in their 20s really get it, that acting is about creativity and the work. They get their maturity from their work.

The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.

Kids don't shuffle along in unison on the road to maturity. They slouch toward adulthood at an uneven, highly individual pace.

Every riff had to be perfect and heavy, collectively what we wanted it to be. If there was one person in the room who went, 'Heh, I don't think it is there yet, guys,' we'd scrap the whole song. I think that took a little bit of songwriting maturity for us.

Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.

Short stories are often strong meat. Reading them, even listening to them, can be challenging, by which I do not mean hard work, simply that a certain amount of nerve and maturity is required.

If you think you are young, then that is what you will be. I also feel that with age, comes maturity. But if you think that you are old, then that is what you will be.

The problem with some of our noisier exponents of 'American exceptionalism' is that they lack Reagan's moral maturity.

I think part of maturity as an actress comes from their experience in getting married and having children.

As you grow older, maturity naturally comes to you. And it shows on your face. It's true not only about looks, but your maturity should also reflect in your performances.

Producing has empowered me as an artist in a specific way. It's forced a certain kind of maturity.