Adolescence Quotes · Page 11

Growing up is like taking down the sides of your house and letting strangers walk in.

— Maureen Daly

I always loved acting, but when you get older and you're going through adolescence, the roles are limited.

— Jonathan Ke Quan

“Look under your bed. It'll set you free. [Anita to her 11-yo brother William]”

— Cameron Crowe

“Being an adult--was this it? Doing the thing you most in your life didn't want to do, and doing it with a…

— Judy Blundell

I think if I would have been sufficiently sure of myself I would have transitioned in my adolescence. In school I trusted…

— Lux Pascal

The goal is not to turn kids into your kind of adult, but rather better adults than you have been.

— Adora Svitak

So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition.

— Theodore Roethke

Growing up means nothing, it just means your closer to your death. Now what you learn while growing up, makes that process…

— Alex Cole

I had been afraid of breast cancer, as I suspect most women are, from the time I hit adolescence. At that age,…

— Geraldine Brooks

“Adolescence is not a period of being “crazy” or “immature.” It is an essential time of emotional intensity, social engagement, and creativity.”

— Daniel J. Siegel

I do not agree with this century's fashion of running down the human species as a failed try, a doomed sport. At…

— Lewis Thomas

Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity.…

— Cesare Pavese

It turned out to be impossible for me to 'run away' in the sense other American teenagers did. Any movement at all…

— Mary Karr

Sending grown-ups up the wall is one of the things adolescence is all about. A few years ago it was done with…

— Russell Baker

“The drinking, the skipping school – all of it – was about regaining some sort of control. That night I felt there…

— Sasha Martin

No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that…

— Eddie Vedder

Young people of high school age can actually feel themselves changing. Progress is almost tangible. It's exciting. It stimulates more progress. Nevertheless,…

— Stella Chess

“After all, growing up is nothing but an argument with your parents on the topic of whether or not you are grown.…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“...some adolescent survivors describe feeling special, powerful, and sometimes entitled. This is especially true of those for whom excessive attention was part…

— Christine A. Courtois

No one can threaten poetry. It's always been there, always will be. Humans need it to live: it has sustaining powers. How…

— Gregory Orr

As Elders, we are fully committed to the principle that all human beings are of equal worth. You will see that we…

— Mary Robinson

“We discard the elderly, but the elderly used to discard the elderly. Those old people we tease are just listening to our…

— Karl Kristian Flores

The first idea of Young and Beautiful was to have a young boy and to explore the sexuality of boys. But, I…

— Francois Ozon

“We're kicking our way into adolescence from the minute we're born. Gradually you form your own ideas of how you should lead…

— Carlos Baker

Youth: Time spent flip flopping between being lonely and wanting to be left alone.

— Rock Cowles

I'm pretty squeaky clean. No big tragedies in my childhood or adolescence or adulthood. I've had a very easygoing, simple life.

— Vera Farmiga

Until adolescence I thought I had the best mother in the world. Such a graceful mother. I had this fantasy that I…

— Carrie Fisher

“You know, even grown-up people cannot do what they want most" "Then why grow up?”

— Elizabeth Bowen

In adolescence you have to separate yourself and establish your identity. So, being very independent anyway, I took charge.

— George Carlin

Adolescence is a twentieth-century invention most parents approach with dread and look back on with the relief of survivors.

— Faye Moskowitz

The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage…

— Amity Shlaes

I joke sometimes that I live a protracted adolescence, that a part of me will always be twelve years old.

— Jack Driscoll

Teenagers complain there's nothing to do, then stay out all night doing it.

— Bob Phillips

I spent most of my adolescence feeling awkward but never once mentioned it.

— Pamela Druckerman

To grow up is to wonder about things; to be grown up is to slowly forget the things you wondered about as…

— Henning Mankell

I think so much of adolescence is about finding your tribe, and what kids today have that we did not have is…

— Peter Paige

The conflict between the need to belong to a group and the need to be seen as unique and individual is the…

— Jeanne Elium

“You know you’re a real grown-up when nothing but Oreos is black and white.”

— Maria Murnane

I spent my whole adolescence, when you just want to be accepted, looking much younger than everyone else.

— Jenna Fischer

I don't believe in professional dissidents. I think it's just a phase, like adolescence.

— Aung San Suu Kyi