Adolescence is a difficult time at the best of times, and especially in a smaller town - there's all these different energies… — William Kircher Copy Share Image
You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone. — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
“Grown-ups are always more fascinated by what you might become then what you are.” — Jim Lynch Copy Share Image
I'm sort of stuck in adolescence in many ways, like most artists, and march to my own beat. — Mary Gauthier Copy Share Image
I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family. — Randy Quaid Copy Share Image
“I want to keep all of me, and I don't think you get to do that. I think becoming an adult means… — Katie Kennedy Copy Share Image
F. Scott Fitzgerald thought that prolonging his adolescence would protect his talent. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Adolescence is that time in your life when you discover your ability to be depressed. — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
In order to obey God, one must receive his commands. How did it happen that I received them in adolescence, while I… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The secret to adulthood is that 99% of the time, you actually know the right thing to do. Adults make it hard… — Jason Kander Copy Share Image
“They didn't really have a childhood. Just them and Mom and then her liver went and she died and it was just… — Gerry Boyle Copy Share Image
To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Maybe being an adult wasn't crossing some arbitrary age line into wisdom. Maybe it was like anything else - training wheels and… — Megan Crane Copy Share Image
I believe in humanity. We are an incredible species. We're still just a child creature, we're still being nasty to each other.… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
Fourteen-year-old, why must you giggle and dote, Fourteen-year-old, why are you such a goat? I'm fourteen years old, that is the reason,… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
I went through my adolescence having this revelatory experience - I can have any music I want, and I can get it… — Grimes Copy Share Image
When we begin to love and respect Great Mother Nature's gift to us of gayness, we'll discover that the bondage of our… — Harry Hay Copy Share Image
“Being a failed teenager is not a crime, but a predicament and a secret crucible. It is a fun-house mirror where distortion… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
The adolescent does not develop her identity and individuality by moving outside her family. She is not triggered by some magic unconscious… — Terri E Apter Copy Share Image
The one thing I would like to get across about my whole feeling regarding high school is how I was when I… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
I've been a writer and a parent since adolescence, it feels like, and I'm still making both gigs up as I go… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
“For as long as I could remember, I had been transparent to myself, unselfconscious, learning, doing, most of every day. Now I… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
We have the most prolonged adolescence in the history of mankind. There is no other society that requires so many years to… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
“Girls get their boobs and forget they were ever so gutsy and smart. Boys, too, can display their own brand of clever… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Most of the students there, he said, don't know what they think. You tell 'em, they'll think it. I plan to tell… — John Knowles Copy Share Image
The main thing that I want to say is that I don't think women are at their most beautiful in their adolescence… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
“The problem with growing up,” Quentin said, “is that once you’re grown up, people who aren’t grown up aren’t fun anymore.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
From adolescence to death there is something very personal about being a Negro in America. — Jay Saunders Redding Copy Share Image
The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I think every teenager goes through their angst. People who are like, 'No, I had a perfect adolescence,' make me wonder how… — Shailene Woodley Copy Share Image
By passing into the psychedelic phase, the space-faring phase, the entire species is passing into adolescence. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“The adolescent is the one who wants to experience everything. The adult comes to realize you can't experience everything.” — Eric Jensen Copy Share Image
“So long as our parents are alive, we are children. Then we become childish.” — Ljupka Cvetanova Copy Share Image
My whole adolescence has been on 'Game of Thrones;' I don't know what I'm going to do without it. — Sophie Turner Copy Share Image
“No matter what your origin or beliefs, rather adolescent or full grown. Thoughts are scribed in pencil but actions are carved in… — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
“When you're finally a grown-up, one of the things you find is that there are no grown-ups.” — Charles Finch Copy Share Image
“When you’re a child, you think your family works in a straight line. Then you get older and find out where the… — Brando Skyhorse Copy Share Image
