Adolescence in our culture for a young woman, for a girl, is a hard road. — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
During adolescence, friends bring an intimate quality of support that can't be provided by any adult. — Sara Shandler Copy Share Image
“Every child makes its peace with abandonment. That's called growing up.” — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“The adult chops down his childhood to help his grown-up self. The unsentimentality is appealing, don't you think?” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I started on 'Neighbours' when I was 14. It's crazy to think now that I had such a bizarre adolescence. — Eliza Taylor Copy Share Image
The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are… — Edgar Friedenberg Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a tough time for parent and child alike. It is a time between: between childhood and maturity, between parental protection… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say I'm stuck in my adolescence, but I think, like a lot of people, I carry my teen years with… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
My adolescence progressed normally: enough misery to keep the death wish my usual state, an occasional high to keep me from actually… — Faye Moskowitz Copy Share Image
Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or… — Joe Baca Copy Share Image
There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
I think there's so much to play in adolescence; there's so many conflicting things happening and so many changes, and there's just… — Alexis Bledel Copy Share Image
Grownups! Everyone remembers them. How strange and even sad it is that we never became what they were: beings noble, infallible, and… — Elizabeth Enright Copy Share Image
“So, girl, you learn to deal with what gets handed down t’you. To grow up means you be honest with y’self. Face… — Marilyn Brant Copy Share Image
Being a father can unreason your worldview, or at least make it very flexible, and that can create all sorts of fun… — Clyde Edgerton Copy Share Image
An adolescent does not rebel against her parents. She rebels against their power. If parents would rely less on power and more… — Thomas Gordon Copy Share Image
I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It's embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
My own first love was biology. I spent a great part of my adolescence in the Natural History museum in London (and… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“We talk about the disappointments of early adolescence - the betrayals by friends, the discovery that one is not beautiful by cultural… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“In ancient Greece, adolescence was a time when young men left their biological families to become the lovers of adult men. Sexuality… — Barry D. Adam Copy Share Image
Any book that can help you survive the slings and arrows of adolescence is a book to love for life; 'The Catcher… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
It seems that one moment I was this little kid only caring about animals and flowers and stuff, and then the next… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
“All my life I've felt like there was something wrong with me. Something missing or damaged." "Every teenager in the world feels… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Growing up is hard when everyone is trying to bring you down. Growing up is hard with all the drama's around. Growing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
although it has been said that idle hands are the devil's workshop, when it comes to teenagers, both idle and active hands… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a dreadful period. We tend to notice those youngsters who misbehave and call attention to themselves, but there are others,… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
It's hard to think about growing up when your right in the middle of doing it. It's hard to know what you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Contemplating the adolescence through which we scorned the wrong, some of us must wish … that we could be born old, and… — Channing Pollock Copy Share Image
“But I could not fully admit it, even then. The way Suzanne's face looked as she watched him - I wanted to… — Emma Cline Copy Share Image
“Partly James was jealous because he was a virgin, but mostly it just felt really weird being in a room with two… — Robert Muchamore Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Go to the adolescent who are smothered in family-- Oh how hideous it is To see three generations of one house gathered… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
If you have older children who avoid you like the plague, buy yourself some expensive bath salts, run a hot tub, and… — Teresa Bloomingdale Copy Share Image
We don't want to act like adults. Anybody who can stay in a state of adolescence will be much better off later… — Tom DeLonge Copy Share Image
Adolescence and early youth...the fires are burning fastest, right? And your energy level is highest. It demands...and rock is screaming type music. — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
She knew the intensity of adolescence, and knew no cure for it except growing up. And then one has age and experience,… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
“We push off the ground and break into a run. It is not a race, it’s just running. All we need to… — Sohn Won-Pyung Copy Share Image
“What season?” I asked. “A delayed adolescence, I guess. When I get up in the morning and see my face in the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
