At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid,… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
The day you realize you're a grownup is the day you realize that you have to do something. When we're kids, we… — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
You don't have to be 'adults'... but be someone who can take responsibility for their own words and actions. Believe it or… — Natsuki Takaya Copy Share Image
Kids growing up today will have what I never did growing up, which is somebody across that screen reflecting who they are,… — Simu Liu Copy Share Image
Man has boyhood, adolescence, youth, middle age and senescence, as stages of growth; there are also corresponding stages in the growth of… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
“There’s a huge difference between being childlike and being childish. When we embrace joy and look at the world with fresh eyes… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Bringing up teenagers is like sweeping back ocean waves with a frazzled broom-the inundation of outside influences never stops. Whatever the lure-cars,… — Mary Ellen Snodgrass Copy Share Image
All teenagers knew this was true. The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
At 17, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind;… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
In adolescence I started to find out about Robert Wilson because I saw Lou Reed's "Timerocker" at [the Brooklyn Academy of Music].… — Aaron Brookner 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
“But it was something else, too, that I wanted to extend: the taut and pleasant silence in the car, the stale heat… — Emma Cline 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
“For teenagers who struggle with these skills, more trouble lies ahead as the tasks in life become more complicated and more demanding… — Richard Guare Copy Share Image
I can remember in my adolescence feeling that many of the things that were hurtful and hypocritical in society were things related… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
'Great Expectations' was an important novel in my adolescence. It was very much one of those emblematic novels that made me wish… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Radio wasn't outside our lives. It coincided with and helped to shape our childhood and adolescence. As we slogged toward maturity, it… — Vincent Canby Copy Share Image
“When you live in New York or any big city, it is easy to fail at growing up. The city is designed… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Adolescents are like cockroaches: They come out the minute you leave town, crawl the walls, feed indiscriminately, reproduce alarmingly unless drugged, and… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
But let us not forget that cities are like human beings. They are born, they go through childhood and adolescence, they grow… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most mothers worry when their daughters reach adolescence but I was the opposite. I relaxed, I sighed with relief. Little girls are… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It may comfort you to know that if your child reaches the age of eleven or twelve and you have a good… — Charlotte Sophia Kasl Copy Share Image
The needs of children during adolescence are particular and acute. They need an opportunity to develop a sense of identity and to… — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a time of active deconstruction, construction, reconstruction--a period in which past, present, and future are rewoven and strung together on… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
I sort of found King Diamond in second grade, but I didn't become a devoted Satanist until a few years later, but… — Tobias Forge Copy Share Image
Sex begins before adolescence, and survives sterility; it is indeed coeval with our lives, although at the mating age its effects are… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Apart from a period of crisis during my adolescence, when my voice was changing and I could not tame it - it… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
The age of puberty is a crisis in the age of man worth studying. It is the passage from the unconscious to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Adolescence can be a time of turmoil and turbulence, of stress and storm. Rebellion against authority and against convention is to be… — Haim Ginott Copy Share Image
When you have little girls, you're the coolest person in the world. I know at some point that's going to end; in… — Jerry O'Connell Copy Share Image
We have to acknowledge that adolescence is that time of transition where we begin to introduce to children that life isn't pretty,… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
In times past there were rituals of passage that conducted a boy into manhood, where other men passed along the wisdom and… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to… — Mary Wesley Copy Share Image
“Tough men are tough not because they want to be tough, but because they have to be tough. Outgrow the adolescent fawning… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“Welcome to adulthood." Cob said. "Every child finds a day when they realize that adults can be weak and wrong just like… — Peter V. Brett Copy Share Image
When faced with a challenge, happy families, like happy people, just add a new chapter to their life story that shows them… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
“Simone de Beauvoir believed adolescence is when girls realize that men have the power and that their only power comes from consenting… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
![“In adolescence I started to find out about Robert Wilson because I saw Lou Reed's "Timerocker" at [the Brooklyn Academy of Music]. I started getting into Jim Jarmusch and knew that my uncle was a friend of his. I pieced together parts of his life in high school and college, which lead me to his…” quote by Aaron Brookner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d47/aaron-brookner-54373_academy_in-adolescence-i-started-to-find-out-abo_2140691.jpg)
