Middle-aged adolescents are a libel on the real thing.

As a child I was middle-aged and cautious compared to my impulsive father.

— Mason Cooley

Interpreting the dance: young women in white dancing in a ring can only be virgins; old women in black dancing in a ring can…

— Mason Cooley

Though they themselves might be as surprised as their parents and teachers to hear it said, adolescents--these poignantly thin- skinned and vulnerable, passionate and…

— Louise J. Kaplan

Integrity is not something that grownups have and adolescents can aspire to. Integrity is something that all of us, at all ages, are constantly…

— Harold S. Kushner

We see these adolescents mourning for a lost childhood.

— David Elkind

Adolescents who are absorbing negative messages about who they are and what is expected of them may sink to that level instead of realizing…

— Daniel J. Siegel

The ubiquitous and acutely conscious presence of our adolescents is a major problem, especially since much of their consciousnessseems to be focused on sexuality--ours…

— Augustus Napier

“But I guess that's just a reflection of how the educational system today, being so overcrowded and impersonal, makes it so hard for adolescents…

— Meg Cabot

The why of why we are here is an intrigue for adolescents; the how is what must command the living.

— Lorraine Hansberry

“I wasn't a stranger to dealing with thirty-plus-year-old adolescents”

— Terri Anne Browning

Adolescents are still children in that they can't yet tell the difference between make believe and fiction.

— Heather O'Neill

Adolescents tend to be passionate people, and passion is no less real because it is directed toward a hot-rod, a commercialized popular singer, or…

— Edgar Friedenberg

The human male and females first decade of life is completely (in my opinion) void of any true sexual feelings within their bodies. This…

— Johnny Luckett

What causes adolescents to rebel is not the assertion of authority but the arbitrary use of power, with little explanation of the rules and…

— Laurence Steinberg

“Adolescents tend to seek love where they can find it.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides