Alexandra Adornetto Quotes

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

I am growing up, but I still need help along the way.

You speak like a green girl / unsifted in such perilous circumstances.

Alone I'm nothing.

Baby eagles can never soar under their family's wing.

Some people do need to grow up, but I don't think I'm there yet. I don't think I'm ready to do grown-up things and be a grown-up.

I'm very mature for my age, but I'm also innocent in a lot of ways.

He's an innocent in a lot of ways. He's a very simple person who really doesn't have the resources or the strength, ultimately, to handle the situation.

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

It's a hard call, but I've no desire to live my children's lives. I think my job as a father is to protect them, to allow them a safe place to grow up and to teach them what I've learned.

Unless I have my aunt or my boyfriend to take care of me, I'm a little pathetic.

It's kind of fun being the cute, little one. In fact, I'm finding it hard to grow out of that.

At 17, we all think we know what we're doing.

I'm a big kid, you know?

When you're young, when you've never done anything very much on your own, you imagine that it won't be so hard.

I've got some growing up to do.

You grow up rough, you think differently. You think you've got to protect yourself at all times. I didn't want any help. I thought I could do everything by myself, which you can't.

When I came out of high school, I was a little kid. I didn't understand the business.

Mumbai is the kind of place where you learn how to be street smart... unless you're way too overprotected.

I'm a big kid.

I'm like an overgrown child! I don't know how to do anything!

I'm just - I'm a child.

I wasn't in any hurry to grow up and become this worldly person.

It's terrible to have to depend on someone else.