'Star Wars' boils down to the transition from adolescence into adulthood. — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
I hate how much of your future is dependent on your adolescence. You never get to truly enjoy your childhood. You're forced… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think sometimes as an adult, you take people for what they do, and what they are now, instead of the whole… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
If you characterize yourself as 'adult,' stereotyping a problem as 'childish' can prevent you from examining its effects in your own life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I remember adolescence, the years of having the impulse control of a mousetrap, of being as private as a safe-deposit box. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
many of us are done with adolescence before we are done with adolescent love. — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
“Adolescence is the same tragedy being performed again and again. The only things that change are the stage props.” — Lindsey Leavitt Copy Share Image
I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult. — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“Tough men are tough not because they want to be tough, but because they have to be tough. Outgrow the adolescent fawning… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to… — Mary Wesley Copy Share Image
I had a stammer through adolescence. Any fun I'd had performing in school plays disappeared and only came back at 18, when… — Charles Dance Copy Share Image
“I can still remember what I was like when I was sixteen. It was hell to be that excited. Then as now,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I was always storytelling, since I was a child. I remember myself at 10 years old telling stories to my sisters and… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
Death during adolescence feels unfair. We're young. We're invincible. Death is supposed to come with old age. When death breaks into our… — Sara Shandler Copy Share Image
I grew up in Boston, and in my adolescence your parents are trying to send you to like 'better' schools and a… — Ayo Edebiri Copy Share Image
Ambivalence reaches the level of schizophrenia in our treatment of violence among the young. Parents do not encourage violence, but neither do… — C. Sommerville Copy Share Image
One thing is certain: for many of those who came back from WWII, the music of Frank Sinatra was no consolation for… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
In adolescence, it's 'How do I fit in?' In your 20s, 'What do I want to do?' Your 30s, 'Is this what… — Chris Pine Copy Share Image
One's teachers all belonged to that generation who were imperialists, and the whole narrative throughout my adolescence was of countries leaving the… — Jeremy Paxman Copy Share Image
With tremendous clarity and wisdom, Daniel Tomasulo has crafted a memoir at once heartbreaking and uplifting. Layers of time and memory—childhood, adolescence,… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Adolescence is a period of life when the brain is malleable, and it represents a good opportunity for learning and social development.… — John Brockman Copy Share Image
“My definition of an adult is someone who lives their life aware they are sharing the world with others. My definition of… — Robert Jackson Bennett Copy Share Image
Growing up is something that you do your whole life. I want to always feel that I can be a kid if… — Robert Downey, Jr Copy Share Image
Our children tremble in their teen-age cribs, whirling off on a thumb or a motorcycle. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
You have to let kids be kids. Robbing them of their childhood and/or adolescence is not fair. — Sussanne Khan Copy Share Image
Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born. — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
The teenagers aren't all bad. I love 'em if nobody else does. There ain't nothing wrong with young people. Jus' quit lyin'… — Moms Mabley Copy Share Image
Sometimes being an adult means doing the right thing, even if it's not what you want. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“Whats the point in being grown up when you cant act childish sometimes?” — Natalie Repinski Copy Share Image
Standing in the line at the food court, I try to be myself. But I forget how I usually stand when I'm… — Susane Colasanti Copy Share Image
I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence. — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
There is a weirdness about having a famous pre-pubescent in the house when you are going through the trials and tribulations of… — Danny Bonaduce Copy Share Image
Perhaps the world progresses not by maturing, but by being in a permanent state of adolescence, of thrilled discovery. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
A large part of my adolescence was spent doing my very best to draw attention to myself. — Rufus Sewell Copy Share Image
Growing up is like a disease. It gets worse and worse every day. And in the end it kills you — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You don't just get over it. And it doesn't make any difference if you're supposedly a grown-up. It never goes away.” — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for. — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
Content without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
