“Adolescent boys don’t understand that becoming a man, at its core, means stepping up and accepting responsibility.” — PhD Clayton J. Lessor LPC Copy Share Image
I loved my freedom as an adolescent, and I'd love to be an adolescent again. — Isabelle Adjani Copy Share Image
many of us are done with adolescence before we are done with adolescent love. — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
I was a rebellious adolescent. It was the '60s. Everyone was rebellious. I hated high school. — George Dyson Copy Share Image
As a teen-ager I was constantly trying to please people, which I guess is true of all adolescents. — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an… — Marcelene Cox Copy Share Image
the teenage zone: the stage when an adolescent's brain synapses quit firing while the rest of their body races toward adulthood. — Becky Freeman Copy Share Image
I really always wanted to be an adult. I didn't really like being an adolescent at all. — Finneas Copy Share Image
Conversion is in its essence a normal adolescent phenomenon, incidental to the passage from the child's small universe to the wider intellectual… — William James Copy Share Image
I was certainly no swan - with my horrendously protruding goofy teeth, bow legs and under-developed, clumsy, boyish, adolescent body. I was… — Ulrika Jonsson Copy Share Image
Personally, my interest in social history ends around 1959, by which time I was an adolescent. I've always attributed this to my… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
The subculture of felons is in great vogue among adolescents. Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, and so forth allow us Republicans to say to… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
As a result of all his education, from everything he hears and sees around him, the child absorbs such a lot of… — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
The mind of a little child is fascinating, for it looks on old things with new eyes-but at about twelve this changes.… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
'Sin Nombre' was almost like the adolescent version of 'Jane Eyre.' 'Jane Eyre' sort of picks up where 'Sin Nombre' ends. It's… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
To die; to decide to die; that's much easier for an adolescent than for an adult. What? Doesn't death strip an adolescent… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I was fortunate to live for 3 years in another country, and although we lived in an American compound, still as a… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“Complicating matters, adolescent brains are more susceptible to substance abuse and dependence than adult brains, because they’re making so many new synaptic… — Jennifer Senior Copy Share Image
A surprising number of American skyjackers were not yet old enough to drink or sometimes even drive. These adolescents were generally inept… — Brendan I. Koerner Copy Share Image
To love! To surrender absolutely, to prostrate oneself before the divine image, to die a thousand imaginary deaths, to annihilate every trace… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Will that be all?” I asked the pimply faced teen who ogled my exposed legs as if in heat. My pen tapped… — Brandi Salazar Copy Share Image
“Notice how those who have medicated away their hardships with illegal drugs, alcohol, or sex can seem immature. They may look forty-five,… — Edward T. Welch Copy Share Image
Why do people stop developing?...from being children to maybe stopping at a very adolescent age, and they stay there until they die.… — Edie Sedgwick Copy Share Image
The early Stones were adolescent rockers. They were self-conscious in an obvious and unpretentious way. And they were committed to a musical… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another til I drop.” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“If you are an adolescent, here is the trick to being neither quite a nerd nor quite a jock: be no one.… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Never had movement been such a burden. Never had a heart been so definite and big in her adolescent chest.” — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
If women's choices - such as taking time off to rear children - make them less productive in the economy, does adolescent… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
Adolescents are attracted to tragic heroes. That's why rock stars dress like homeless people. Adolescence is a fall. It's when every child… — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
The British who arrived in the United States in the eighteen-thirties and forties had imagined the young republic as a wide-eyed adolescent,… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It's the experts in adolescent development who wax most emphatic about the value of family meals, for it's in the teenage years… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Faint equivalents can sometimes be found ... . Or it can be rendered obliquely-an adolescent's mental image of his or her parents… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
When I was nine, we moved to Stanford University in San Francisco so that my father could do a Ph.D. I went… — Caroline Lawrence Copy Share Image
I'm a very amateur scientist. For me, it started with the Mercury space program and onward to the moon landing in my… — Geoffrey Rush Copy Share Image
I've been doing a lot of work on female rights, especially adolescent rights. I've been to a lot of schools where the… — Priyanka Chopra Copy Share Image
“Neuroscience research tells us that the adolescent brain is primed for the acquisition of new skills. Teens are driven to seek out… — Richard Guare Copy Share Image
Young women, adolescent girls, are more subject to infection, sometimes at a rate of six times that of boys. That tells you… — Stephen Lewis Copy Share Image
I think that is a universal adolescent feeling, trying to find your place. The adolescent who is perfectly adjusted to his environment,… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
Even when I became the typical shy adolescent, I never minded performing. I felt there was a kind of safety, a protection… — Hayley Mills Copy Share Image
The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed. It is… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
