The early adolescence years are crucial for a child's cognitive, emotional and social development. — Patty Mills Copy Share Image
“If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being an adult is about learning how to die.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Going through adolescence looking like a hormone experiment wasn't easy. — Stacey Solomon Copy Share Image
We live a protracted adolescence. At some point you must leave the party. — Don Henley Copy Share Image
Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice. — David Elkind Copy Share Image
Even though my parents are American, I spent my whole childhood and adolescence abroad. — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
What do we do with ourselves when we find we have failed to become the adults we dreamed as pious children? — Joanna Brooks Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I started playing the drums when I was 10 years old, I think because it was fun. And then when I hit… — Mitchell Joachim Copy Share Image
The onset of adulthood is an organic, creeping process. No one wakes up one day and decides, 'Lo, on this day I… — David Carr Copy Share Image
My father worked for the Foreign Office, so he was away a lot of the time. We were a very volatile family.… — Amanda Donohoe 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
The meaningful role of the father of the bride was played out long before the church music began. It stretched across those… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
From the writing stage, I had envisioned a film that would be bright and light, even if the movie addresses adolescent unrest… — Alante Kavaite Copy Share Image
One of the tragedies of our day is that too many boys are growing up without guidance of a father, or another… — Dennis Rainey Copy Share Image
The first typical adolescent of modern times was Wagner's Siegfried. : the music of Siegfried expressed for the first time that combination… — Philippe Aries Copy Share Image
“At seventeen, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind;… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Most literature on the culture of adolescence focuses on peer pressure as a negative force. Warnings about the "wrong crowd" read like… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
The only lie I really remember from my adolescence was when I was in sixth grade and I was dropped off with… — Dan Byrd Copy Share Image
“On a nightstand in a teenager’s room, a glass vase filled with violets leans precariously against a wall. The only thing saving… — Jay Nichols Copy Share Image
“I've had a great deal of experience with adolescents over the centuries, and I've discovered that as a group these awkward half… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Obviously I went through my adolescence on national TV, but it's great looking back. — Kelvin Fletcher Copy Share Image
Growing up is hard enough. When you have to deal with adults all day, it's just that much more difficult. — Cris Collinsworth Copy Share Image
Adolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood. — Chris Van Hollen Copy Share Image
We become adolescents when the words that adults exchange with one another become intelligible to us. — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
“I met Baba Yaga at the end of childhood – past pigtails and fairytales, but not quite ready to give up on make-believe.” — Kirsty Logan Copy Share Image
“The trick to being an adult is maintaining that childlike wonder while still managing to do soul-killing things like paying bills.” — Katee Robert Copy Share Image
How strange that the young should always think the world is against them - when in fact that is the only time… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
From childhood to adolescence, girls face mixed messages about displaying power and authority. — Rachel Simmons Copy Share Image
Ambition robs you of your childhood. The moment you want to become an adult—in any way—something in your childhood dies. — John Irving Copy Share Image
Trying to grow up is hurting. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don't, it hurts even… — Aretha Franklin Copy Share Image
A part of adolescence is feelimg that there's no one else around who's enough like youself to understand you. — John Irving Copy Share Image
“He'd obviously spent his college years refining the art of adolescence...” — Jenifer LeClair Copy Share Image
she wanted to dance with someone who would embrace her in the way she dreamed of since adolescence. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was a lot younger - when I wrote Water Lilies. I was like 26. It felt so natural to write about adolescence. — Celine Sciamma Copy Share Image
