“I wasn't a stranger to dealing with thirty-plus-year-old adolescents” — Terri Anne Browning Copy Share Image
What causes adolescents to rebel is not the assertion of authority but the arbitrary use of power, with little explanation of the… — Laurence Steinberg Copy Share Image
Adolescents are like cockroaches: They come out the minute you leave town, crawl the walls, feed indiscriminately, reproduce alarmingly unless drugged, and… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
“Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Adolescents tend to be passionate people, and passion is no less real because it is directed toward a hot-rod, a commercialized popular… — Edgar Friedenberg Copy Share Image
A certain group of adolescents evidence clear "druggie" behavior and attributes some time before they actually begin drug use. — Virgil Miller Newton Copy Share Image
Adolescents are the bearers of cultural renewal, those cycles of generation and regeneration that link our limited individual destinies with the destiny… — Louise J. Kaplan 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 most ignorant and wasted youthful generation is the very one that the older generation uses to create social conflicts to their… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“A lot of people believe that mental illness does not affect our children within the school system. But the truth is that… — Tamara Hill, MS Copy Share Image
“His Majesty has done absolutely nothing but waste his time darling around eating sweets, contributing to the boy's adolescent chubiness, and to… — Charles Emmerson Copy Share Image
When it comes to raising civilized kids there are no hard rules, but there are two things on which most parents agree:… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
Adolescents who are absorbing negative messages about who they are and what is expected of them may sink to that level instead… — Daniel J. Siegel Copy Share Image
“Adolescents are looking for a soul-shaking, heart-waking, world-changing God to fall in love with; and if they do not find that God… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
Adolescents believe that the world belongs to the living, or more particularly to living people their age, so they feel within their… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Peer pressure is not a monolithic force that presses adolescents into the same mold. . . . Adolescents generally choose friend whose… — Laurence Steinberg Copy Share Image
Twelve-step programs require people to accept their powerlessness and turn their lives over to God or another higher power. Many adolescents question… — David Sheff Copy Share Image
“We inculcate in our children the sensibilities of raccoons, a fascination with shiny objects and an appetite for garbage, and then carp… — Garret Keizer Copy Share Image
“But I guess that's just a reflection of how the educational system today, being so overcrowded and impersonal, makes it so hard… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
Adolescents have the right to be themselves. The fact that you were the belle of the ball, the captain of the lacrosse… — Laurence Steinberg Copy Share Image
Though they themselves might be as surprised as their parents and teachers to hear it said, adolescents--these poignantly thin- skinned and vulnerable,… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Adolescents may be, almost simultaneously, overconfident and riddled with fear. They are afraid of their overpowering feelings, oflosing control, of helplessness, of… — Stella Chess Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a time when children are supposed to move away from parents who are holding firm and protective behind them. When… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
Adolescents' immature thinking makes it difficult for them to process the divorce. They tend to see things in black-and-white terms and have… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
The human male and females first decade of life is completely (in my opinion) void of any true sexual feelings within their… — Johnny Luckett Copy Share Image
If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must learn how to keep its adolescents from imposing… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Adolescents are still children in that they can't yet tell the difference between make believe and fiction. — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who… — Virginia Satir Copy Share Image
I think I can safely say that, as adolescents, most people have excess energy to spare and need adventure, excitement, and a… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
“How many of us readers say this quote and mean it. "If I knew what I know now life would be different"…” — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
Each generation of adolescents has at least two historical events that color its responses to whatever happens next. — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
The why of why we are here is an intrigue for adolescents; the how is what must command the living. — Lorraine Hansberry 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 often felt the girls' speech was interchangeable, without any individuality whatsoever, a kind of herd-speak they had all agreed upon.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
We live in a world where adolescents and young people, especially from key populations, are still left behind. We cannot fail to… — Pia Wurtzbach Copy Share Image
