Adolescence Quotes · Page 10

My whole adolescence has been on 'Game of Thrones;' I don't know what I'm going to do without it.

— Sophie Turner

“No matter what your origin or beliefs, rather adolescent or full grown. Thoughts are scribed in pencil but actions are carved in…

— Carl Henegan

I think every teenager goes through their angst. People who are like, 'No, I had a perfect adolescence,' make me wonder how…

— Shailene Woodley

“The adolescent is the one who wants to experience everything. The adult comes to realize you can't experience everything.”

— Eric Jensen

By passing into the psychedelic phase, the space-faring phase, the entire species is passing into adolescence.

— Terence McKenna

Children, don't grow up. Our bodies get bigger, and our hearts get torn up.

— Anonymous

“...at some point we must achieve our identity -we can't be always in adolescence seeking who we are...”

— John Geddes

In adolescence she thought it was too early to choose, now in youth she was convinced it was too late to change.

— Paulo Coelho

Adolescence is such a fun time in your life, because you think you know it all, and you haven’t gotten to the…

— Anthony Kiedis

Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call…

— Maya Angelou

“You don’t necessarily have to want to become an adult; it happens as a matter of course, as you go, making choices.…

— Banana Yoshimoto

There comes a time in life where you will become and adult so that means it'll be a time to push away…

— Telisa McLaughlin

And then there is the universal role of adult. When you play that role, you take yourself and life very seriously. Spontaneity,…

— Eckhart Tolle

The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack…

— J. G. Ballard

“Yet when adults lose the four distinguishing features of adolescence, when they stop cultivating the power of novelty seeking, social engagement, emotional…

— Daniel J. Siegel

“Guillam was exhausted. Forty is a difficult age at which to stay awake, he decided. At twenty or at sixty the body…

— John le Carré

Adolescence has been recognised as a stage of human development since medieval times--long, long before the industrial revolution--and, as it is now,…

— Terri E Apter

Witness the American ideal: the Self-Made Man. But there is no such person. If we can stand on our own two feet,…

— Urie Bronfenbrenner

“He picks up speed and seems to lose his gangliness, the slouchy funk of hormones and unbelonging and all the stammering things…

— Don Delillo Underworld

Ordinarily during the stage of your life when you're going through your adolescence and you're completely awkward and uncomfortable, the rest of…

— Tina Majorino

I was influenced by the Beats because I actually just began to commit adolescence around 1955, when "Howl" and Rebel Without a…

— Billy Collins

One of the traps of adolescence is the sort of paranoid resentment that somehow you're never going to match up and that…

— Stephen Fry

When I talk to people who have teenagers now, their rooms are filled with screens. There are their phones and their DVD…

— Adrian Tomine

It was in reading Tristam Shandy that I noticed how it is primarily men who gravitate towards the game-playing self-reflexive style. There…

— Camille Paglia

Adolescence is like having only enough light to see the step directly in front of you.

— Sarah Addison Allen

Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.

— Al Bernstein

Adolescence begins when children stop asking questions-because they know all the answers.

— Evan Esar

Until we fix the deep-rooted problems of economic inequality, we cannot expect young people to experience the best childhood and adolescence.

— Luciana Berger

Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.

— Earl Wilson

My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.

— Peter Shaffer

“To be adult means, among other things, to see one’s own life in continuous perspective, both in retrospect and in prospect.”

— Samuel H. Barondes

L'adolescence est le seul temps o u' l'on ait appris quelque chose. Adolescence is the only time when we can learn something.

— Marcel Proust

I look back at my adolescence, and Im shocked at the things I did that were my idea of adult behavior.

— Katherine Waterston

By the time I turned 12, I was a 5-foot 10-inch social disaster. Towering over my friends was the bane of my adolescence.

— Sheri L. Dew

“I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they're here.”

— Stephen Chbosky

My adolescence was all tits and champagne. I'm downplaying the magic of it all.

— Greg Kinnear

Rebelliousness really is the province of young people-that kind of iconoclasm.

— Steve Martin

Adolescence is that time when I think, it can be- it's the cruelest place on Earth. It can really be heartless.

— Tori Amos

The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.

— Idries Shah

Just because I do what I do doesn't mean I escaped adolescence, all the bumps and bruises that go along with it.

— Anna Paquin