Bernard Sumner Quotes

When you're physically growing up, you develop emotionally with that.

Every kid goes through puberty, wondering what to do about girls and struggling with homework, and every adult has been through that.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

I think you can be mature without being grown-up. You can also be grown-up without being mentally mature. One of them is forced, while the other one is your choice.

I think the major problem in growing up is to become sophisticated without becoming cynical.

The boy grows upward, but the girl grows up.

Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.

I just feel like I haven't grown up yet. I live on my own and I do grown-up things, but there is something about me that is very youthful.

The dueling maturity levels in high school is such a source of comedy to me. I was always such a late developer. I was last to walk. I was last to ride a bike. I was last to have sex. That's why it's fun to portray one side of your childhood onscreen.

I am 30, but there are things about me that are still 15.

I never really had a teenage experience. I went from childhood to maturity, and in some ways, it short-circuited me emotionally.

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?

I feel about 18, but my mind is much more mature now, so it's a perfect combination.

I realise I'm still a child, though I do feel older.

Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.

In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently.

We cannot know the young child's personality by studying his systems of interest, for his attention is as yet too labile, his reactions impulsive, and interests unformed. From adolescence onward, however, the surest clue to personality is the hierarchy of interests, including the loves and loyalties of adult life.

When you start acting as a child, you grow up ahead of your movies.

Watching kids go from the age of 9 and 10 to 13 is a big, huge jump. The way they speak, their looks, their attitudes, everything changes as you go from being a little kid to a teenager.

A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.

Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.

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

Minds ripen at very different ages.

I was way behind in my maturity. I was a 30-year-old acting like a 23-year-old. So when I was 21, I was probably acting like a 15-year-old.

It's, like, weird to watch a human being develop.