Adolescence Quotes · Page 13

One doesn't remain a teenager forever.

— Mariah Carey

“What was he? A mere human, stuck between the rungs of blended adolescence and nascent adulthood. What power did he command over…

— Faraaz Kazi

I designed 'Buffy' to be an icon, to be an emotional experience, to be loved in a way that other shows can't…

— Joss Whedon

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

— Erma Bombeck

I was not popular in school, and I was definitely not a ladies' man. And I had a very painful adolescence, because…

— Joss Whedon

Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence…

— Gloria Steinem

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

— Theodore Roethke

A mother can legitimately be said to 'have a baby' - but in a civilization such as ours, she can never claim…

— Mary Blakely

“Adolescence is the same tragedy being performed again and again. The only things that change are the stage props.”

— Lindsey Leavitt

“Why can’t you just be yourself?” Stella asked once. “Maybe I don’t know who that is,” her daughter shot back. And Stella…

— Brit Bennett

Adolescence can be a time of turmoil and turbulence, of stress and storm. Rebellion against authority and against convention is to be…

— Haim Ginott

In no order of things is adolescence the time of the simple life.

— Janet Erskine Stuart

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

— Jim Lynch

nothing is as conventional as adolescence.

— Margaret Deland

Someone once remarked that in adolescence pornography is a substitute for sex, whereas in adulthood sex is a substitute for pornography.

— Edmund White

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

At a stage when young people want more than anything to be like everyone else, they find themselves the least alike. Everyone…

— Laurence Steinberg

I think I've been lucky enough to have had an extended adolescence. I'm a lot like I was when I was 15.

— Ariel Pink

Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony.

— Andy Hargreaves

I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.

— Kate Beckinsale

Even if you were to start drinking milk during adolescence in an attempt to bolster peak bone mass, it probably wouldn't reduce…

— Michael Greger

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

— Sophie Turner

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

— Rock Cowles

“There are few physiques I loathe more than the heavy low-slung pelvis, thick calves and deplorable complexion of the average coed (in…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Adolescence is not only an important period in life, but that it is the only period where one may speak of life…

— Michel Houellebecq