Adolescence Quotes · Page 12

I did not have the moments of so-called normal people during adolescence, like going out with friends, enjoying good times.

— Kylian Mbappe

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 children reach the age of sixteen, they discover the meaning of life: car keys.

— Erma Bombeck

Youth asks no greater privilege than to fight its own battles. It is mistaken kindness to shield - it weakens one in…

— Myrtle Reed

“Growing up means situations and people change, problems are bigger, feelings are deeper and the hurt devastating.”

— Bailey

Adolescence in my growing up period was truly "Happy Days," the title of a TV show connotating the quality of this life…

— Virgil Miller Newton

I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.

— Stanislav Grof

I'm sort of stuck in adolescence in many ways, like most artists, and march to my own beat.

— Mary Gauthier

For a long time in my adolescence, comedy was the only tool I had for communication and dealing with the world and…

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

When I was 14, I felt very rundown; I had a home to go to, but I felt like I was 60…

— Gus Van Sant

There's something so remarkable in the intensity of taking care of somebody who can't take care of him or herself. And then…

— Bill Ayers

I have tried to answer the question which sent me to Samoa: Are the disturbances which vex our adolescents due to the…

— Margaret Mead

“If, as PJ O'Rourke ones quipped, giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys,…

— Mark Hemingway

It's no surprise to me that intellectuals commit suicide, go mad or die from drink. We feel things more than other people.…

— Sue Townsend

“Adolescence impelled her eyes to stay at an even keel, to deal with the ground before flickering to the heavens. Night became…

— Thomm Quackenbush

College campuses are a focus of prevention efforts for meningococcal disease because of the increased incidence of the disease during adolescence and…

— Erik Paulsen

“Camus-boy, you're always going to be the same you, just older. It's not like there's a moment when you wake up and…

— Hannah Moskowitz

The hardest thing about adolescence is that everything seems too big. There's no way to get context or perspective, … Pain and…

— Sara Paretsky

Adolescent girls were fighting a mother's interference because they wanted her to acknowledge their independence. Whatever resentment they had was not towards…

— Terri E Apter

“...the salient feature of the absurd age I was at--an age which for all its alleged awkwardness, is prodigiously rich-- is that…

— proust

Our hypothetical rich client might even have ordered a Pommard, because it was listed at a higher price...He would have never learned…

— A. J. Liebling

The purpose of adolescence is to revise the past, not to obliterate it. . . . Adolescence entails the deployment of family…

— Louise J. Kaplan

“Peter never wore underwear, Connie had complained, and the fact grew in my mind, making me nauseous in a not unpleasant way.…

— Emma Cline

To most of us, adulthood means being able to earn a living, possess a home, get married and rear children, and this…

— Jane Ridley

“I want to keep all of me, and I don't think you get to do that. I think becoming an adult means…

— Katie Kennedy

I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family.

— Randy Quaid

Adolescence is a difficult time at the best of times, and especially in a smaller town - there's all these different energies…

— William Kircher

You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.

— Queen Latifah

“Grown-ups are always more fascinated by what you might become then what you are.”

— Jim Lynch

Growing up gorilla is just like any other kind of growing up. You make mistakes. You play. You learn. You do it…

— Katherine Applegate

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

— Carrie Fisher

I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of…

— Aimee Bender

When youth live in fear of becoming who they are, as adults, they can't become the creative beings that we are meant…

— Sophie Gregoire Trudeau

I grew up in south London and spent most of my adolescence in the snooker halls of the area, turning professional at 17.

— Jimmy White

'The Catcher in the Rye.' When I was a teenager, that was my book; yes, somebody gets it, somebody gets adolescence.

— Libba Bray

I'm a big people pleaser; I had a very awkward adolescence. Part of me is still that person who wants everyone to…

— Alissa Nutting

“a part of adolescence is feeling that there's no one else around who's enough like yourself to understand you.”

— John Irving

When I was a prepubescent child, I never really had experiences of gender dysphoria. This is not something that started until adolescence.

— ContraPoints

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

— Mark Patinkin

Skateboarding is forever, and things like college and girls only ruin an endlessly savored adolescence.

— Roger Ebert