Our teen-agers withdrew to their bedrooms on their thirteenth birthday and didn't show themselves to us again until it was time to… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
In my adolescence, love, as I think for most of us, was a tremendous focus. I wanted to find the perfect partner.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Being an adult is the ability to postpone a want for the sake of a family need. — Chris Hogan Copy Share Image
Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession. — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
Adolescence is not only an important period in life, but that it is the only period where one may speak of life… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
Adolescence involves our nutty-desperate-ecstatic-rash psychological efforts to come to terms with new bodies and outrageous urges. — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
True love comes along after adolescence, when we have learned not to cry for nothing. — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence & manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn w/ Tests , deaths, feats, rites stories, songs, & judgements. — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
Adolescence is the most Technicolor time in our lives. It's the time when adulthood is new and we care most about it.… — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
I've gone through my adolescence on TV so it's pretty cringey when I look back on some pictures and scenes, but that's… — Kelvin Fletcher Copy Share Image
To me Donnie Darko was about adolescence. And about how, as soon as you start to grow up and you sort of… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
When the vast baby-boom generation exploded into adolescence in the 1960s, marketers exulted. Advertising consultants, always eager to coin a phrase, began… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
Kids are smart nowadays, they are much more aware of their surroundings than we were 20 years ago, but at the same… — Priyanshu Chatterjee Copy Share Image
We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be… — Frances McDormand Copy Share Image
I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
I have dwelt ever in realms apart from the visible world; spending my youth and adolescence in ancient and little-known books, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Personally I feel that real rock 'n' roll may be on the way out, just like adolescence as a relatively innocent transitional… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
In 1992 I was doing one of my first ever tours and I was in Heathrow airport and I saw these middle-aged… — Moby Copy Share Image
“For that moment at least they seemed to give up external plans, theories, and codes, even the inescapable romantic curiosity about one… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
These principles with due regard to time and place, must, in accordance with Christian prudence, be applied to all schools, particularly in… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
The years between thirty-five and sixty-five revolve before the passive mind as one unexplained, confusing merry-go-round. True, they are a merry-go-round of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“For the first time in my life, I actually wished that everyone was the same. And I despised myself for my "differentness"… — Laura Hanna Copy Share Image
“Hazel understood. Being grown up meant doing what grown-ups wanted you to do. it meant sacrificing your imagination for rules. It meant… — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
“We don’t do all our growing up between birth and adolescence or even our twenties. If we’re fortunate, we never stop. *” — Diane Guerrero Copy Share Image
By the time I was in my early teens, we were able to move into a much more middle-class area. I had… — George Michael Copy Share Image
“Stop looking at what everyone else has! You have to figure out who you are before you can be anyone!” — Setona Mizushiro Copy Share Image
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
A mother can legitimately be said to 'have a baby' - but in a civilization such as ours, she can never claim… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
You can certainly extend your adolescence. There's people that are very good at extending it indefinitely. — Ben Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
I think I've been lucky enough to have had an extended adolescence. I'm a lot like I was when I was 15. — Ariel Pink Copy Share Image
Growing up crowds your mind with new thoughts and new feelings so that you forget how you used to think and feel. — Maureen Daly Copy Share Image
I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence. — Brooke Shields Copy Share Image
What adolescence is about is by trial and error, honing a frontal cortex that is going to be more optimal by the… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion. — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Although I was well past my teenage troubles, our music was specifically designed to lubricate the passage from adolescence to adulthood. — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a stressful time for girls because of the momentous physical and physiological changes that take place. — Mazher Copy Share Image
The mentality of an army on the march is merely so much delayed adolescence; it remains persistently, incorrigibly and notoriously infantile. — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
The idols of one's adolescence tend to endure - you never forget how you worshipped them. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
