At a young age, I was very aware I was different and not perceived in a good way. For a lot of… — Mustafa Ali Copy Share Image
Personally I feel that real rock 'n' roll may be on the way out, just like adolescence as a relatively innocent transitional… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
I have decided to keep a full journal, in the hope that my life will perhaps seem more interesting when it is… — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
When I talk to people who have teenagers now, their rooms are filled with screens. There are their phones and their DVD… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
'Lives' is one of those books I should really have written when I was younger. It is the classic childhood, adolescence, breakthrough-into-maturity… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
When you're lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
In our house we say 'adolescence' is a western word. We don't believe in it. — Mira Nair Copy Share Image
In my adolescence, I think I felt very outcast; I felt lonely. I felt great loneliness, and sometimes I wouldn't partake in… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
My childhood, adolescence and high school days are unusually important. If there has ever been a time that I developed a uniqueness… — Lee Atwater Copy Share Image
“When I was in junior high, I used to think I would turn out to be one of the guys, and boys… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Thank God I had two parents who loved me enough to stay on my case. — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
“...the changes during adolescence are not something to just get through; they are qualities we actually need to hold on to in… — Daniel J. Siegel Copy Share Image
“They didn't have very far to fall - I knew just being a girl in the world handicapped your ability to believe… — Emma Cline Copy Share Image
Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
I blacked out my childhood after a string of traumatic events in my late adolescence. — Hunx Copy Share Image
Butterfield 8, with its call-girl heroine working her way down the alphabet of men from Amherst to Yale, appeared at a very… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“The drone in my ear, it’s like the tornado drill in elementary school, the hand-cranked siren that rang mercilessly, all of us… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
Childhood and adolescence are nothing but milestones: You grow taller, advance to new grades, and get your period, your driver's license, and… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I feel I'm trying to get this really crap car going, and it just keeps stalling on me. And then other times… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
I remember I thought I should become a doctor, even though I had no talent for science whatsoever. Then of course, until… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence. — Art Linkletter Copy Share Image
“We discard the elderly, but the elderly used to discard the elderly. Those old people we tease are just listening to our… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
