I blacked out my childhood after a string of traumatic events in my late adolescence. — Hunx Copy Share Image
Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Surprise! Adolescence is not an exciting adventure. It's actually very boring and lonelier than you could ever imagine.” — Frank Warren Copy Share Image
Adolescence has such a negative connotation and it shouldn't. It's experimentation, it's being unsure, no preconceived notions. — Mary Tyler Moore Copy Share Image
Maturity is when your world opens up and you realize that you are not the center of it. — M.J. Croan Copy Share Image
A single message from space will show that it is possible to live through technological adolescence. . . . It is possible… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“She rode down the sidewalk, turned toward the shadow side of the street and melted into darkness. I didn't know it then,… — Craig Davidson Copy Share Image
Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Adolescents are attracted to tragic heroes. That's why rock stars dress like homeless people. Adolescence is a fall. It's when every child… — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
I was very dreamy. Insular. I'm always amazed I survived adolescence at all and wasn't squashed flat by a juggernaut. Gaping, I… — Elizabeth Fraser Copy Share Image
It is as if, to every period of history, there corresponded a privileged age and a particular division of human life: "youth"… — Philippe Aries Copy Share Image
There's only one thing harder than living in a home with an adolescent - and that's being an adolescent. The moodiness, the… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
“Some of being an adult, though, is about protecting and preserving what we discover to be the best parts of ourselves, and… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is beginning writing and… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“Adolescence is best enjoyed without self-consciousness, but self-consciousness, unfortunately, is its leading symptom. Even when something important happens to you, even when… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“For our own part, we learned a great deal about the techniques of love, and because we didn't know the words to… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
It is not however, adulthood itself, but parenthood that forms the glass shroud of memory. For there is an interesting quirk in… — Terri E Apter Copy Share Image
Adolescence is the time to enlarge the natural sentiments of pity, friendship, and generosity, the time to develop an understanding of human… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Adolescents may be, almost simultaneously, overconfident and riddled with fear. They are afraid of their overpowering feelings, oflosing control, of helplessness, of… — Stella Chess Copy Share Image
Ironically, when I hit adolescence, I was approached about modeling and acting all the time. And, for five years, I said, "No,… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
Adolescence was only recognised as a life stage in the early 20th century, when psychologists got down to work. Today's generational battle… — Jane Ridley Copy Share Image
Adolescence and early youth...the fires are burning fastest, right? And your energy level is highest. It demands...and rock is screaming type music. — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
If you have older children who avoid you like the plague, buy yourself some expensive bath salts, run a hot tub, and… — Teresa Bloomingdale Copy Share Image
We don't want to act like adults. Anybody who can stay in a state of adolescence will be much better off later… — Tom DeLonge Copy Share Image
It's about transitioning from adolescence, when you live together with parents and see each other every day, to the era when you… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
Go to the adolescent who are smothered in family-- Oh how hideous it is To see three generations of one house gathered… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“Partly James was jealous because he was a virgin, but mostly it just felt really weird being in a room with two… — Robert Muchamore Copy Share Image
“Contemplating the adolescence through which we scorned the wrong, some of us must wish … that we could be born old, and… — Channing Pollock Copy Share Image
“But I could not fully admit it, even then. The way Suzanne's face looked as she watched him - I wanted to… — Emma Cline Copy Share Image
I can remember in my adolescence feeling that many of the things that were hurtful and hypocritical in society were things related… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Man has boyhood, adolescence, youth, middle age and senescence, as stages of growth; there are also corresponding stages in the growth of… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
“There’s a huge difference between being childlike and being childish. When we embrace joy and look at the world with fresh eyes… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
You don't have to be 'adults'... but be someone who can take responsibility for their own words and actions. Believe it or… — Natsuki Takaya Copy Share Image
Kids growing up today will have what I never did growing up, which is somebody across that screen reflecting who they are,… — Simu Liu Copy Share Image
I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid,… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
The day you realize you're a grownup is the day you realize that you have to do something. When we're kids, we… — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
