Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities? — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
Growing up means nothing, it just means your closer to your death. Now what you learn while growing up, makes that process… — Alex Cole Copy Share Image
I joke sometimes that I live a protracted adolescence, that a part of me will always be twelve years old. — Jack Driscoll Copy Share Image
The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
“You know, even grown-up people cannot do what they want most" "Then why grow up?” — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
In adolescence you have to separate yourself and establish your identity. So, being very independent anyway, I took charge. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a twentieth-century invention most parents approach with dread and look back on with the relief of survivors. — Faye Moskowitz Copy Share Image
I'm a big people pleaser; I had a very awkward adolescence. Part of me is still that person who wants everyone to… — Alissa Nutting Copy Share Image
“a part of adolescence is feeling that there's no one else around who's enough like yourself to understand you.” — John Irving Copy Share Image
Age childish makes, they say, but 'tis not true; We're only genuine children still in Age's season. [Ger., Das Alter macht nicht… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
As my children leave the protected parameters of the bay called childhood and enter the wavier seas of adolescence, I'm starting to… — Kristin Armstrong Copy Share Image
“When Prospective mothers and fathers imagine the joys of parenthood, they seldom envision the adolescent years. Adolescence is the stretch of childhood… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This sentiment of self-contempt is a frequent one in young people of both sexes. Their valuation of themselves varies as much as… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
Before adolescence I had an incredible voice. Like when I was 12, 13, 14 - I was taking acting classes, I was… — Lynn Shelton Copy Share Image
Adolescence is interesting. I mean, all of life is interesting and all of life is transitionary. But I think there is an… — Bill Henson Copy Share Image
In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
Even if you were to start drinking milk during adolescence in an attempt to bolster peak bone mass, it probably wouldn't reduce… — Michael Greger Copy Share Image
But I must admit I didn´t like that idea; do the same thing as everyone else. Eating to live, living to eat… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Parents are never forgiven for not giving just the right response at the appropriate moment. Or, rather, there are particular times in… — Terri E Apter Copy Share Image
When I remember how unhappy I was in adolescence - about the fact that, though I wasn't really using the term to… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
As someone who writes and teaches YA fiction, I spend a lot of time trying to define its character and readership, and… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
Teenage girls are extremists who see the world in black-and- white terms, missing shades of gray. Life is either marvelous or notworth… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
I used to believe, although I don't now, that growing and growing up are analogous, that both are inevitable and uncontrollable processes.… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Instilling values of faith at an early age is important. Listening them through adolescence comes more important than teaching because if you… — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
“What drew him back was something altogether more personal, to a history where, in the pain and longing of adolescence, he was… — David Malouf Copy Share Image
When you're kept out of the adult world, it's a blessing in disguise. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
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