Adolescence Quotes · Page 2

Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor.

— Jodie Foster

“the awkwardness of adolescence still clinging to them.”

— Tim Kreider

I would dye my hair every week. I wanted to be a really goth teenager.

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

Nobody feels like an adult. It's the world's dirty secret.

— Richard Jenkins

My entire adolescence was geared toward one thing: gymnastics.

— Kerri Strug

When people have children, they have to grow up!

— Kyle

All the best human impulses can be traced back to adolescence.

— Helene Deutsch

At fourteen you don't need sickness or death for tragedy.

— Jessamyn West

I spent my whole adolescence, when you just want to be accepted, looking much younger than everyone else.

— Jenna Fischer

I don't believe in professional dissidents. I think it's just a phase, like adolescence.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Youth: Time spent flip flopping between being lonely and wanting to be left alone.

— Rock Cowles

I'm pretty squeaky clean. No big tragedies in my childhood or adolescence or adulthood. I've had a very easygoing, simple life.

— Vera Farmiga

Until adolescence I thought I had the best mother in the world. Such a graceful mother. I had this fantasy that I…

— Carrie Fisher

I think if I would have been sufficiently sure of myself I would have transitioned in my adolescence. In school I trusted…

— Lux Pascal

The goal is not to turn kids into your kind of adult, but rather better adults than you have been.

— Adora Svitak

So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition.

— Theodore Roethke

When you share something about your adolescence, it's a way to roll over and show your soft underbelly when it comes to…

— Janet Varney

I started playing the drums when I was 10 years old, I think because it was fun. And then when I hit…

— Mitchell Joachim

The onset of adulthood is an organic, creeping process. No one wakes up one day and decides, 'Lo, on this day I…

— David Carr

My father worked for the Foreign Office, so he was away a lot of the time. We were a very volatile family.…

— Amanda Donohoe

The chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work, and a need for the strengthening of…

— Maria Montessori

Children from ten to twenty don't want to be understood. Their whole ambition is to feel strange and alien and misinterpreted so…

— Phyllis McGinley

The meaningful role of the father of the bride was played out long before the church music began. It stretched across those…

— Tom Brokaw

Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is…

— Anonymous

“Fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, lemme tell you. Those are big years. Everybody always thinks of it as a time of adolescence—just getting…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be…

— C.S. Lewis

I think it's important to experience kindness so that you can experience it more in the future. I believe that patterns of…

— E. L. Konigsburg

“So it was a crossroads summer, when the universe seemed to stand perilously still like an egg wobbling on a precipice, a…

— Sol Luckman

“That night I dreamed about flying turtles and forest fires and fucking the earth...The next morning I awoke and I listened to…

— Scott McClanahan

The problem with being the baby of the family, is that I have zero say in music? There was no point in…

— Alana Haim

I did not write it [Coming of Age in Samoa] as a popular book, but only with the hope that it would…

— Margaret Mead

“Peter,' she asked, trying to speak firmly, 'what are your exact feelings for me?' Those of a devoted son, Wendy.' I thought…

— J.M. Barrie

Through the eyes of a child we as adults need too grow up…ER

— Eddie Rothschild

Teenagers are my life and my triumph. I'd be nowhere without them.

— Elvis Presley

Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.

— Tayari Jones

We're adults. When did that happen? And how do we make it stop?

— Anonymous

Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

“In no order of things is adolescence the time of simple life.”

— Janet Erskine Stuart

What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.

— Martha Beck

Since my adolescence, divisive politics has bothered me.

— Anubhav Sinha