Adolescence Quotes · Page 10

Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.

— Caitlin Flanagan

Massachusetts is the first state in America to reach full adulthood. The rest of America is still in adolescence.

— Uwe Reinhardt

Being an adult means accepting those situations where no action is possible.

— John D. MacDonald

If God wanted a world filled with saints, He never would have created adolescence.

— Susan Beth Pfeffer

Adolescence, the time to live, experience, love before the monotonia of adulthood, so let's live the day without hate or sorrow

— Anonymous

I look back at my adolescence, and I'm shocked at the things I did that were my idea of adult behavior.

— Katherine Waterston

When you're lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.

— Erma Bombeck

All any grownup expects of an adolescent is that he act like an adult and be satisfied to be treated like a…

— John Grant

Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is…

— Anonymous

Age childish makes, they say, but 'tis not true; We're only genuine children still in Age's season. [Ger., Das Alter macht nicht…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“No child, still less a foetus, has ever mastered the art of small talk, or would ever want to. It’s an adult…

— Ian McEwan

“I was there laughing and joking with everyone else, but it’s like there was some part of me standing back, watching, thinking,…

— Margaret Peterson Haddix

If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must learn how to keep its adolescents from imposing…

— Eric Hoffer

“Simone de Beauvoir believed adolescence is when girls realize that men have the power and that their only power comes from consenting…

— Mary Pipher

When faced with a challenge, happy families, like happy people, just add a new chapter to their life story that shows them…

— Bruce Feiler

“Welcome to adulthood." Cob said. "Every child finds a day when they realize that adults can be weak and wrong just like…

— Peter V. Brett

Adolescence hits boys harder than it does girls. Girls bleed a little and their breasts pop out, big deal, but adolescence lands…

— Garrison Keillor

Being an adult, you've already suffered enough from your own mistakes, and the world, to come to this as a humble human…

— Killer Mike

Adolescence is a time when children are supposed to move away from parents who are holding firm and protective behind them. When…

— Mary Pipher

I was a serious comic collector and fanboy as a kid. I wanted very badly to draw comic books for a lot…

— Anthony Bourdain

Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence. Children grow up…

— Theodore Dalrymple

Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence. Children grow up…

— Theodore Dalrymple

Here is what I'm trying to tell you: Adult isn't a noun, it's a verb. It's the act of making correctly those…

— Kelly Williams Brown

“Most adults assume that the feelings of adolescence don't count, somehow, and that those searing passions of rage and hate and embarrassment…

— Joanne Harris

Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive; imagination, not seldom, is sedate.

— Walter Savage Landor

Having children truly ends adolescence. We are all either parents or children: responsibility-takers or those who demand from others.

— Ben Shapiro

My adolescence was a kind of motorway pile-up. I wish I had known that one day the geek would inherit the Earth.

— Peter Capaldi

I wanted to make a body of work that looked at what it felt like to be a boy going through adolescence.

— Polixeni Papapetrou

I think anyone who's ever gone through adolescence and wanted something from their parents knows the basic tenets of a con.

— Matt Bomer

If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you.

— Toni Morrison

the teenage zone: the stage when an adolescent's brain synapses quit firing while the rest of their body races toward adulthood.

— Becky Freeman

“I believe that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise.”

— Margaret Atwood

“You can never really trust someone who remembers every embarrassing detail of your adolescence.”

— Daniel Clowes

Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolescence.

— Carrie Fisher

I had low blood sugar, a chemical imbalance, plus the normal nervous breakdown everyone goes through from adolescence to adulthood.

— Mel Brooks

I have decided to keep a full journal, in the hope that my life will perhaps seem more interesting when it is…

— Sue Townsend

“Bittersweet: it's what life tastes like. And if you can handle the bitter, the sweet will come later. ~ Klyde, in Piranhas…

— J.Z. Bingham

If pornographers can hook adolescents when their hormones are raging, they know they'll have an ongoing consumer base for life.

— Donna Rice Hughes

The thing that's so hard about being a kid is you don't have enough knowledge to explain things yourself.

— Lena Dunham

17 is the weirdest age, because you can't figure out if you want to grow up or be a child.

— Maisie Williams