If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must learn how to keep its adolescents from imposing… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“I was there laughing and joking with everyone else, but it’s like there was some part of me standing back, watching, thinking,… — Margaret Peterson Haddix Copy Share Image
“No child, still less a foetus, has ever mastered the art of small talk, or would ever want to. It’s an adult… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
When the vast baby-boom generation exploded into adolescence in the 1960s, marketers exulted. Advertising consultants, always eager to coin a phrase, began… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
To me Donnie Darko was about adolescence. And about how, as soon as you start to grow up and you sort of… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence & manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn w/ Tests , deaths, feats, rites stories, songs, & judgements. — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
Adolescence is the most Technicolor time in our lives. It's the time when adulthood is new and we care most about it.… — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
I've gone through my adolescence on TV so it's pretty cringey when I look back on some pictures and scenes, but that's… — Kelvin Fletcher Copy Share Image
When a child becomes an adult . . . the elders are fearful. And for good reason . . . not we… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
There have been times in my adolescence where I gave up. I was like, 'I'm just never going to be pretty. I'm… — Ronda Rousey 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
It is not simply that these two cities are perched side by side at the edge of the Pacific; it is that… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
In sixth grade, my status as a Boy Scout was not something I went out of my way to share. In fact,… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
“The adventures of adolescence had taught Piet Barol that he was extremely attractive to most women and to many men. He was… — Richard Mason Copy Share Image
We cannot know the young child's personality by studying his systems of interest, for his attention is as yet too labile, his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“From my window I watched the full moon—a moon that reminded me of Brett—become shadowed, little by little until there was only… — Irene Hunt Copy Share Image
I grew up in Boston, and in my adolescence your parents are trying to send you to like 'better' schools and a… — Ayo Edebiri Copy Share Image
Death during adolescence feels unfair. We're young. We're invincible. Death is supposed to come with old age. When death breaks into our… — Sara Shandler Copy Share Image
I was always storytelling, since I was a child. I remember myself at 10 years old telling stories to my sisters and… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
“I can still remember what I was like when I was sixteen. It was hell to be that excited. Then as now,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I had a stammer through adolescence. Any fun I'd had performing in school plays disappeared and only came back at 18, when… — Charles Dance Copy Share Image
A single message from space will show that it is possible to live through technological adolescence. . . . It is possible… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“She rode down the sidewalk, turned toward the shadow side of the street and melted into darkness. I didn't know it then,… — Craig Davidson Copy Share Image
Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be… — Frances McDormand Copy Share Image
Kids are smart nowadays, they are much more aware of their surroundings than we were 20 years ago, but at the same… — Priyanshu Chatterjee Copy Share Image
Ironically, when I hit adolescence, I was approached about modeling and acting all the time. And, for five years, I said, "No,… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
Adolescence was only recognised as a life stage in the early 20th century, when psychologists got down to work. Today's generational battle… — Jane Ridley Copy Share Image
It is as if, to every period of history, there corresponded a privileged age and a particular division of human life: "youth"… — Philippe Aries Copy Share Image
I was very dreamy. Insular. I'm always amazed I survived adolescence at all and wasn't squashed flat by a juggernaut. Gaping, I… — Elizabeth Fraser Copy Share Image
Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Adolescents are attracted to tragic heroes. That's why rock stars dress like homeless people. Adolescence is a fall. It's when every child… — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
“I'm most disturbed by the theory of rubber resilience in children; as if its much easier to bounce back with youth. I… — Zack W. Van Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress,… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“Wasn’t that the definition of adulthood? That you wanted one thing, but did another because you knew what was right and good,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Adolescence is interesting. I mean, all of life is interesting and all of life is transitionary. But I think there is an… — Bill Henson Copy Share Image
