'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
I'm sort of stuck in adolescence in many ways, like most artists, and march to my own beat. — Mary Gauthier Copy Share Image
The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Instilling values of faith at an early age is important. Listening them through adolescence comes more important than teaching because if you… — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
Most people don't get out of childhood, or adolescence, without being wounded for telling the truth. Someone says 'you can't say that'… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
The adolescent does not develop her identity and individuality by moving outside her family. She is not triggered by some magic unconscious… — Terri E Apter Copy Share Image
“How we diminished her and in turn ourselves. Turned parts of her body into heavy burdens to carry. Watching. Tittering (we no… — Rion Amilcar Scott 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
The only lie I really remember from my adolescence was when I was in sixth grade and I was dropped off with… — Dan Byrd Copy Share Image
As my children leave the protected parameters of the bay called childhood and enter the wavier seas of adolescence, I'm starting to… — Kristin Armstrong Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a time when children are supposed to move away from parents who are holding firm and protective behind them. When… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
It is idle to talk of civil liberties to adults who were systematically taught in adolescence that they had none; and it… — Edgar Friedenberg Copy Share Image
When I was about seven, one or two people encouraged me, and art became an enormous and important refuge. By adolescence, I… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Many, many individuals will report starting to form their lifelong interests around adolescence. Why that is, researchers don't fully know. But if… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
This is no time to let down our guard on youth violence. Research demonstrates that appropriate interventions made during or prior to… — David Satcher Copy Share Image
Without beauty a girl is unhappy because she has missed her chance to be loved. People do not jeer at her, they… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
Teenagers are like cats - they have important business that doesn't involve mere humans. — Julie Smith Copy Share Image
The early adolescence years are crucial for a child's cognitive, emotional and social development. — Patty Mills Copy Share Image
The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
'The Catcher in the Rye.' When I was a teenager, that was my book; yes, somebody gets it, somebody gets adolescence. — Libba Bray 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 teenage zone: the stage when an adolescent's brain synapses quit firing while the rest of their body races toward adulthood. — Becky Freeman Copy Share Image
Being someone who had had a very difficult childhood, a very difficult adolescence - it had to do with not quite poverty,… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
As someone who writes and teaches YA fiction, I spend a lot of time trying to define its character and readership, and… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
