“Guillam was exhausted. Forty is a difficult age at which to stay awake, he decided. At twenty or at sixty the body… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
“Yet when adults lose the four distinguishing features of adolescence, when they stop cultivating the power of novelty seeking, social engagement, emotional… — Daniel J. Siegel Copy Share Image
And then there is the universal role of adult. When you play that role, you take yourself and life very seriously. Spontaneity,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know,… — Uma Thurman Copy Share Image
Most grown people are like icebergs, three-tenths showing, seven-tenths submerged - that is why a collision with one of them is unexpectedly… — Rumer Godden Copy Share Image
With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“He was fiercely beautiful in the way some young males are, as if their whole being were being lived through their eyes,… — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
The hardest thing about adolescence is that everything seems too big. There's no way to get context or perspective, … Pain and… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
“We're kicking our way into adolescence from the minute we're born. Gradually you form your own ideas of how you should lead… — Carlos Baker Copy Share Image
The first idea of Young and Beautiful was to have a young boy and to explore the sexuality of boys. But, I… — Francois Ozon Copy Share Image
“We discard the elderly, but the elderly used to discard the elderly. Those old people we tease are just listening to our… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
As Elders, we are fully committed to the principle that all human beings are of equal worth. You will see that we… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It's embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
An adolescent does not rebel against her parents. She rebels against their power. If parents would rely less on power and more… — Thomas Gordon Copy Share Image
To most of us, adulthood means being able to earn a living, possess a home, get married and rear children, and this… — Jane Ridley Copy Share Image
One thing I feel is this: that a great deal of poetry is the product of adolescence-or of an emotionally adolescent frame… — James Agee Copy Share Image
men change less than is imagined; their after life is only a kaleidescope combination of the elements of their character at the… — Geraldine Jewsbury Copy Share Image
The thing about adolescence is that you are emerging from a state of obscurity. You are coming out into the world from… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
At a stage when young people want more than anything to be like everyone else, they find themselves the least alike. Everyone… — Laurence Steinberg Copy Share Image
“All I know is that growing up hurts too much. Growing down is what I'd really like to do. Be little enough… — Bette Greene Copy Share Image
Normal men retain their childish longing for a woman to mother them. At adolescence a new desire is added. They want a… — William Moulton Marston Copy Share Image
“...the changes during adolescence are not something to just get through; they are qualities we actually need to hold on to in… — Daniel J. Siegel Copy Share Image
“What was he? A mere human, stuck between the rungs of blended adolescence and nascent adulthood. What power did he command over… — Faraaz Kazi Copy Share Image
I liked the idea that my character was not gonna be the typical dumb guy that I play, typically. I also loved… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
“Modern parents can take comfort from the fact that most of our teenagers come through adolescence, too—perhaps a little bruised, maybe a… — Barbara Natterson-Horowitz Copy Share Image
Kids want acceptance from their peers, but in two different, opposing ways: They want to be like everyone else and they want… — E. L. Konigsburg Copy Share Image
Something dramatic happens to girls in early adolescence. Just as planes and ships disappear mysteriously into the Bermuda Triangle, so do the… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
“Everything was brighter and more colorful in those years, as if my childhood was ending in an explosion of unreal passion that… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
For is it not possible that middle age can be looked upon as a period of second flowering, second growth, even a… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I feel I'm trying to get this really crap car going, and it just keeps stalling on me. And then other times… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
I made a film about adolescence and what going through it is like for a specific group of girls. Adolescence is always… — Linda Goldstein Knowlton Copy Share Image
“Egalitarian and relativistic sentiments find steady support among ever new generations of adolescents. Owing to their still incomplete mental development, juveniles, especially… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
the term 'young adults' which is so often used today seems to me a misnomer, and one which, if taken seriously, may… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I was in therapy for six years and then stopped. You get hardwired at adolescence, like a caterpillar that pupates and re-assembles… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Above all, she is the girl who 'feels' things, who has hung on to the freshness and pain of adolescence, the girl… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Some adolescents are troubled and some get into trouble. But the great majority (almost nine out of ten) do not. . .… — Laurence Steinberg Copy Share Image
It's a natural phenomenon that when you hit as a little kid, as a teenybopper, we'll call it, everybody who used to… — Donny Osmond Copy Share Image
