“Some old-school Madonna and Beyoncé and everyone in the room went from being eighteen-year-olds to being twelve-year-olds to seven-year-olds and back again,… — Laleh Khadivi Copy Share Image
I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I was baptized as an infant. I was confirmed as an adolescent; I was active in my church's youth group and in… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
The need to express one's self in writing springs from a maladjustment of life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
“It’s too easy to follow bad but attractive leaders, embrace pleasurable but destructive habits, ignore looming disaster because maybe it won’t happen… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“And accordingly, the adolescent sensibility is one that prevails in much of the art world, where the most adolescent of goals, transgression,… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
Adults forget the depths of languor into which the adolescent mind decends with ease. They are prone to undervalue the mental growth… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For millions of girls around the world, motherhood comes too early. Those who bear children as adolescents suffer higher maternal mortality and… — Esther Duflo Copy Share Image
As an adult, I've always found the stereotype that Jews are liberal a curious one; my parents' circle was predominantly conservative, not… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
“It’s an embarrassing fact that we are more afraid of embarrassment than a host of other discomforts, but it isn’t less true… — Susan Neiman Copy Share Image
Another reason for the increased self-centeredness of an adolescent is her susceptibility to humiliation. This brazen, defiant creature is also something tender,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Turbulent childhood, adolescent daydreams in the drone of the bus's motor, mornings, unspoiled girls, beaches, young muscles always at the peak of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“He considered himself, and the way he moved in reaction, like a pinball, from one thing to the next, as he was… — Laleh Khadivi Copy Share Image
When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings.… — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
“the knowledge, tastes, and social accomplishments of 13-year-olds are often the same as those of 28-year-olds. Adolescents are precociously adult; adults are… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
I always find it actually funny that the analysis is that the characters I play in comedies are the manchild, the adolescent,… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
I've been wrestling with Kafka since I was an adolescent. I think he's a great aphorist, a great letter writer, a great… — John Banville Copy Share Image
American pop culture is perpetually in adolescent mode. The notions of what it takes to be a man, as depicted in pop… — Alex Tizon Copy Share Image
The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes… — James S. Coleman Copy Share Image
In India, while there are some initiatives working with and for adolescent girls, there are too few state sponsored programmes for adolescent… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
I'm less self-consumed, less narcissistic, I'm more selfless, more considerate. I've just grown up. It's a slow growth, because I was in… — James Righton Copy Share Image
I do turn down things that I feel aren't right for me, like when it's some kind of adolescent thing that might… — Selma Blair Copy Share Image
I always had that adolescent notion that I had to get out of Texas. But I'm really glad I grew up there.… — Sarah Shahi Copy Share Image
Preoccupied with her self, the adolescent sees enormous changes, whereas the parent sees the child she knew all along. For the parent,… — Terri E Apter Copy Share Image
“There are few situations in life which are more difficult to cope with than an adolescent son or daughter during the attempt… — Anna Freud Copy Share Image
Secondary school parents tell me that they are frustrated, that their teachers ignore them, their children don't give them much feedback because… — Jim Knight Copy Share Image
Never slow down, never look back, live each day with adolescent verve and spunk and curiosity and playfulness. If you think you’re… — John Grogan Copy Share Image
the term 'young adults' which is so often used today seems to me a misnomer, and one which, if taken seriously, may… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I read The NAMBLA Bulletin fairly regularly and I think it is one of the most intelligent discussions of sexuality I've ever… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
I think that it's hard enough being an adolescent and wanting so much to fit in with your peers, your schoolmates, and… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
I didn't really know I wanted to act when I was a child. I have a lot of interests, and I really… — Jordan Bridges Copy Share Image
