Becoming Quote by Clarice Lispector

Kids are generally rotten until the age of about six, when they become people.

— Lemmy

Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead…

— Richard Ford

“What degradation lay in being young.”

— Daphne du Maurier

Some people mature too fast, some too slow. Some never had a childhood, some never grow.

— Anonymous

Things evolve. People mature.

— Ian Gillan

When people look back at their childhood or youth, their wistfulness comes from the memory, not of what their lives had been in those…

— Victor Hugo

When you are young, you think that the old lament the deterioration of life because this makes it easier for them to die without…

— Julian Barnes

People do horrible things when they're young. There might be betrayal and there might be things that should be forgotten.

— Lake Bell

Adults had the notion that juveniles needed to suffer. Only when they had suffered enough to wipe out most of their naturally joyous spirits…

— Piers Anthony

I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Much of our adult morality, in books and out of them, has a stuffiness unworthy of childhood. Our grown-up conclusions often rest on perilously…

— E. B. White

They - Young People have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition…

— Aristotle