Adolescence Quotes · Page 11

There have been times in my adolescence where I gave up. I was like, 'I'm just never going to be pretty. I'm…

— Ronda Rousey

Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence. Children grow up…

— Theodore Dalrymple

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

— Maureen Daly

I think anyone who's ever gone through adolescence and wanted something from their parents knows the basic tenets of a con.

— Matt Bomer

In times past there were rituals of passage that conducted a boy into manhood, where other men passed along the wisdom and…

— Kent Nerburn

God's way of making separation with children easier was to invent adolescence.

— Mark Patinkin

At fourteen you don't need sickness or death for tragedy.

— Jessamyn West

If you enjoyed high school, you were probably a psychopath or a cheerleader. Or possibly both.

— Jenny Lawson

He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.

— Aneurin Bevan

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

I grew up in Boston, and in my adolescence your parents are trying to send you to like 'better' schools and a…

— Ayo Edebiri

It is as if, to every period of history, there corresponded a privileged age and a particular division of human life: "youth"…

— Philippe Aries

My fear is that I will be crushed in an elevator and my mother will get hold of my journals from my…

— Carrie Fisher

Germany's hierarchical reverence for seniority may have something to do with the fact that everything here happens relatively late. Germans start school…

— Luke Harding

I was always the young guy. And when you're successful when you're young, it leads to an arrested adolescence or something, y'know.

— Jim Carroll

When you have three teenagers, it gives a whole new meaning to "homeland security."

— Bruce Springsteen

“Fear didn't suit me.”

— Gwenda Bond

I would dye my hair every week. I wanted to be a really goth teenager.

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

“Being a failed teenager is not a crime, but a predicament and a secret crucible. It is a fun-house mirror where distortion…

— Pat Conroy

The overwhelmingly successful trial book of my early adolescence had been To Kill A Mocking Bird.

— Scott Turow

High school and equality are forever incompatible.

— Sharyn McCrumb

To me Donnie Darko was about adolescence. And about how, as soon as you start to grow up and you sort of…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

It's about transitioning from adolescence, when you live together with parents and see each other every day, to the era when you…

— K. M. Soehnlein

I was always storytelling, since I was a child. I remember myself at 10 years old telling stories to my sisters and…

— Pedro Almodovar

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of…

— Coco Chanel