College campuses are a focus of prevention efforts for meningococcal disease because of the increased incidence of the disease during adolescence and… — Erik Paulsen Copy Share Image
The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“If, as PJ O'Rourke ones quipped, giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys,… — Mark Hemingway Copy Share Image
I have tried to answer the question which sent me to Samoa: Are the disturbances which vex our adolescents due to the… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“Adolescence impelled her eyes to stay at an even keel, to deal with the ground before flickering to the heavens. Night became… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
It's no surprise to me that intellectuals commit suicide, go mad or die from drink. We feel things more than other people.… — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
When I was 14, I felt very rundown; I had a home to go to, but I felt like I was 60… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
There's something so remarkable in the intensity of taking care of somebody who can't take care of him or herself. And then… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
One of the high points of my life was when I suddenly realized that this dream I had in my late adolescence… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Just because you're an adult doesn't mean you're grown up. Growing up means being patient, holding your temper, cutting out the self-pity,… — Brandon Stanton Copy Share Image
Listening to learn isn't about giving advice--at least not until asked--but about trying to understand exactly what someone means,how it is that… — Elizabeth Debold Copy Share Image
“The presence of females was oppressive to them all. It seemed to them that lately the world was full of girls. Everywhere… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Our hypothetical rich client might even have ordered a Pommard, because it was listed at a higher price...He would have never learned… — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
“...the salient feature of the absurd age I was at--an age which for all its alleged awkwardness, is prodigiously rich-- is that… — proust Copy Share Image
“Camus-boy, you're always going to be the same you, just older. It's not like there's a moment when you wake up and… — Hannah Moskowitz Copy Share Image
Adolescent girls were fighting a mother's interference because they wanted her to acknowledge their independence. Whatever resentment they had was not towards… — Terri E Apter Copy Share Image
For a long time in my adolescence, comedy was the only tool I had for communication and dealing with the world and… — Raphael Bob-Waksberg Copy Share Image
It seems that one moment I was this little kid only caring about animals and flowers and stuff, and then the next… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
Any book that can help you survive the slings and arrows of adolescence is a book to love for life; 'The Catcher… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“In ancient Greece, adolescence was a time when young men left their biological families to become the lovers of adult men. Sexuality… — Barry D. Adam Copy Share Image
I think there's so much to play in adolescence; there's so many conflicting things happening and so many changes, and there's just… — Alexis Bledel Copy Share Image
Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or… — Joe Baca Copy Share Image
There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
It's hard to think about growing up when your right in the middle of doing it. It's hard to know what you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
although it has been said that idle hands are the devil's workshop, when it comes to teenagers, both idle and active hands… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a dreadful period. We tend to notice those youngsters who misbehave and call attention to themselves, but there are others,… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
Growing up is hard when everyone is trying to bring you down. Growing up is hard with all the drama's around. Growing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“All my life I've felt like there was something wrong with me. Something missing or damaged." "Every teenager in the world feels… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Stages of life are artifacts. Adolescence is a useful contrivance, midlife is a moving target, senior citizens are an interest group, and… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
Many, many individuals will report starting to form their lifelong interests around adolescence. Why that is, researchers don't fully know. But if… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
To me everyone goes through that at some point in adolescence, you know. There's - you meet someone when you're a young… — Don Hertzfeldt Copy Share Image
The phenomenal success of the recovery movement reflects two simple truths that emerge in adolescence: all people love to talk about themselves,… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
'Lives' is one of those books I should really have written when I was younger. It is the classic childhood, adolescence, breakthrough-into-maturity… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence and manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn with tests, deaths, feats, rites, stories, songs, and judgments. — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
I got a good-enough adolescence. I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working… — Ben Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
“You don’t necessarily have to want to become an adult; it happens as a matter of course, as you go, making choices.… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
There comes a time in life where you will become and adult so that means it'll be a time to push away… — Telisa McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Adolescence is such a fun time in your life, because you think you know it all, and you haven’t gotten to the… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
I designed 'Buffy' to be an icon, to be an emotional experience, to be loved in a way that other shows can't… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image