Adolescence Quotes · Page 7

“Adolescence is nothing if not a working model of peer influence in its purest form.”

— David DiSalvo

Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.

— Quentin Crisp

Teenagers are like cats - they have important business that doesn't involve mere humans.

— Julie Smith

Growing up sucks. Or maybe its just making hard decisions that will define the rest of your life. So unsure...

— Anonymous

The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle.

— Plutarch

The overwhelmingly successful trial book of my early adolescence had been To Kill A Mocking Bird.

— Scott Turow

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

— Art Linkletter

When you have three teenagers, it gives a whole new meaning to "homeland security."

— Bruce Springsteen

“Tombstones covered the dale, the smooth marble surfaces bright. She had spent days here as a teenager, though not out of any…

— Thomm Quackenbush

“He'd been given an assignment to write about teen beauty pageants [...], which he'd accepted because he enjoyed blood sports as much…

— David Baldacci

The more intelligent and competent a woman is in her adult life, the less likely she is to have received an adequate…

— Susan Jacoby

I am invariably and have been since adolescence inimical to the Republican mind which shows at the most inflated size the bad…

— Janet Flanner

Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence…

— Gloria Steinem

When you're doing something you're not used to, you kind of realize that you're still a kid: even though the whole world…

— Mitski

I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I remember myself at 10 years old telling stories to my sisters and brother. This is something I did through my adolescence…

— Pedro Almodovar

“When I was younger, I would cling to life because life was at the top of the turning wheel. But like the…

— Roman Payne

The notion that the 'leader' has the right to ask huge sacrifices of your generation for a notional future paradise - if…

— Tom Stoppard

Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of…

— Ellen Glasgow

“For the first time, she recognized the symptoms of infatuation which she had felt incipiently as a child, as a girl in…

— Kate Chopin

Growing up means letting go of the dearest megalomaniacal dreams of our childhood. Growing up means knowing they can't be fulfilled. Growing…

— Judith Viorst

“His adolescent nerdliness vaporizing any iota of a chance he had for young love. Everybody else going through the terror and joy…

— Junot Díaz

My childhood, adolescence and high school days are unusually important. If there has ever been a time that I developed a uniqueness…

— Lee Atwater

Most people don't get out of childhood, or adolescence, without being wounded for telling the truth. Someone says 'you can't say that'…

— Adyashanti

Young people want to look like peas in a pod, and there is no use trying to make them different.

— Ilka Chase

Adolescence is a kind of emotional seasickness. Both are funny, but only in retrospect.

— Arthur Koestler

Being stuck in adolescence - that's a hell. 'Peter Pan' is a dystopia, and we forget that. Neverland is a bad place…

— Ben Sasse

Adolescence is a border between childhood and adulthood. Like all borders, it's teeming with energy and fraught with danger.

— Mary Pipher

“If growing up means not seeing one’s family and friends on the regular—all in the name of paying the bills, then growing…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Storybooks were always a big part of my imagination, and my childhood and adolescence.

— Jesse Williams

Adolescence is that time when I think, it can be- it's the cruelest place on Earth. It can really be heartless.

— Tori Amos

The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.

— Idries Shah

By the time I turned 12, I was a 5-foot 10-inch social disaster. Towering over my friends was the bane of my adolescence.

— Sheri L. Dew

My adolescence was all tits and champagne. I'm downplaying the magic of it all.

— Greg Kinnear

Rebelliousness really is the province of young people-that kind of iconoclasm.

— Steve Martin

“I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they're here.”

— Stephen Chbosky

“Look under your bed. It'll set you free. [Anita to her 11-yo brother William]”

— Cameron Crowe

“Being an adult--was this it? Doing the thing you most in your life didn't want to do, and doing it with a…

— Judy Blundell

Just because I do what I do doesn't mean I escaped adolescence, all the bumps and bruises that go along with it.

— Anna Paquin

Growing up is like taking down the sides of your house and letting strangers walk in.

— Maureen Daly