Rick James Quotes

Hargrave made me mature. It made me grow up, and I needed that.

I've experienced a lot for someone my age that a lot of people will be able to relate to.

A kid grows up a lot faster on the golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

Deliverance is about what I went through the first time. And I chalk it up as a learning experience.

I just remember that pivotal moment when you're a young adult, and you realize that these authority figures are human beings, too, and they're figuring out their lives just as you are, and they're flawed.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age very quickly through shipwreck and disaster.

I think the beauty of growing up is not really knowing and figuring it out for yourself.

With Maurice suddenly going, I realised... I think I've matured. I don't take things lightly any more.

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.

I would've preferred to blossom earlier in life.

You are the best lessons you learn from life. I have grown up learning from my life.

Absolutely I view life from a different perspective than I did in my past. It's rewarding, to me, because it actually lets me know that I am growing up.

My body had to mature, and my mind had to mature. I had to put these pieces together.

You do grow, and you learn from your experiences, and that's obviously what happened to me.

I want to be known as someone who grew up a little.

So many things come with your maturation process. I changed throughout my time with WWE from a kid in his 20s into a man.

I think every opportunity, every disappointment, every rejection, every accolade... everything has contributed in shaping my character and my choices and who I have become.

As a person, you like to see young men mature.

I've grown and I've matured, and I kind of like that.

Growing up, I was utterly oblivious to the fact that Mom was teaching me all that. But I was instantly aware of her final lesson, which was hidden in her notes and leters. As I read them I began to understand that in the end you are the only one who can make yourself happy. More important, Mom showed me that it is never too late to find out how to do it.

That was always the dream, wasn't it? 'I wish I'd known then what I know now'? But when you got older you found out that you NOW wasn't YOU then. You then was a twerp. You then was what you had to be to start out on the rocky road of becoming you now, and one of the rocky patches on that road was being a twerp.

I always had the sense with her that she didn't suffer fools gladly but that life was taking great pains to show her how.

Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways; but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you of the fact.