Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Spooky things happen in houses densely occupied by adolescent boys. When I checked out a four-inch dent in the living room ceilingone… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
Children from ten to twenty don't want to be understood. Their whole ambition is to feel strange and alien and misinterpreted so… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Adolescents are attracted to tragic heroes. That's why rock stars dress like homeless people. Adolescence is a fall. It's when every child… — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
Normal men retain their childish longing for a woman to mother them. At adolescence a new desire is added. They want a… — William Moulton Marston Copy Share Image
I look back at my adolescence, and Im shocked at the things I did that were my idea of adult behavior. — Katherine Waterston Copy Share Image
“Lying half-asleep in his embrace, I looked up and saw on his face the same expression I saw on countless lonely faces… — Kien Nguyen Copy Share Image
So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I started playing the drums when I was 10 years old, I think because it was fun. And then when I hit… — Mitchell Joachim Copy Share Image
Youth asks no greater privilege than to fight its own battles. It is mistaken kindness to shield - it weakens one in… — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
If God wanted a world filled with saints, He never would have created adolescence. — Susan Beth Pfeffer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The wild girl is with me always; she is my rage and my hunger, and if I live what passes for a… — Mary Stewart Atwell Copy Share Image
Skateboarding is forever, and things like college and girls only ruin an endlessly savored adolescence. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy. . . . I have often said to parents, "If it isn't illegal,… — Virginia Satir Copy Share Image
Most parents of adolescent girls have the goal of keeping their daughters safe while they grow up and explore the world. The… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
Something that had an enormous influence over my relationship with language was my stammer. I had a really bad stammer in my… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
Another reason for the increased self-centeredness of an adolescent is her susceptibility to humiliation. This brazen, defiant creature is also something tender,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a difficult time at the best of times, and especially in a smaller town - there's all these different energies… — William Kircher Copy Share Image
Adolescence as the time when an individual ‘recapitulates’ the savage stage of the race’s past. — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is better in this present world of ours that a revolutionary idea or invention instead of being helped and patted,… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
I don't have kids, but I've often noticed when people first become parents they seem to completely forget their own adolescence and… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
