Before adolescence I had an incredible voice. Like when I was 12, 13, 14 - I was taking acting classes, I was… — Lynn Shelton Copy Share Image
In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
“For a terrible time of life a teen-ager deceives himself; he believes he can trick the world. He believes he is invulnerable.… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Today I discovered two kinds of people who go to high school: those who wear new clothes to show off on the… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
I think most of my childhood, adolescence, and teenage years, I was struggling to feel validated - which led to a lot… — Sobhita Dhulipala Copy Share Image
In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Lying half-asleep in his embrace, I looked up and saw on his face the same expression I saw on countless lonely faces… — Kien Nguyen Copy Share Image
The truth remains that, after adolescence has begun, "words, words, words," must constitute a large part, and an always larger part as… — William James Copy Share Image
Adolescence was invented in the 19th century to enable middle-class families to keep their children out of sweatshops. But it has degenerated… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
“Outside the study hall the next fall, the fall of our senior year, the Nabisco plant baked sweet white bread twice a… — Annie Dillard 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
The years between thirty-five and sixty-five revolve before the passive mind as one unexplained, confusing merry-go-round. True, they are a merry-go-round of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“For the first time in my life, I actually wished that everyone was the same. And I despised myself for my "differentness"… — Laura Hanna Copy Share Image
These principles with due regard to time and place, must, in accordance with Christian prudence, be applied to all schools, particularly in… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
In 1992 I was doing one of my first ever tours and I was in Heathrow airport and I saw these middle-aged… — Moby Copy Share Image
“For that moment at least they seemed to give up external plans, theories, and codes, even the inescapable romantic curiosity about one… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it;… — Harry Mathews Copy Share Image
I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
Being Jewish, you didn't get into a sorority. So I really was much more outgoing and gregarious. I really didn't want to… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up imagining myself as an opera composer. Only once in my entire adolescence did I attend an opera. I… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Greek pederasty honored the erotic magnetism of male adolescence in a way that today brings police to the door. Children are more… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“We must turn all of our educational efforts to training our children for the choices which will confront them... The child who… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I decided I wanted to be a painter, and then that moved into wanting to be an animator. By adolescence, I just… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
The most dangerous age is 14. If you know any teenagers, this might not come as a surprise, but research has confirmed… — Susannah Cahalan Copy Share Image
Most parents of adolescent girls have the goal of keeping their daughters safe while they grow up and explore the world. The… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
When the boomers started to have kids reach adolescence, there was suddenly this feeling that they needed to protect their kids from… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go.… — Ron Taffel Copy Share Image
Age childish makes, they say, but 'tis not true; We're only genuine children still in Age's season. [Ger., Das Alter macht nicht… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The meaningful role of the father of the bride was played out long before the church music began. It stretched across those… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This sentiment of self-contempt is a frequent one in young people of both sexes. Their valuation of themselves varies as much as… — Humphry Davy 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
“When Prospective mothers and fathers imagine the joys of parenthood, they seldom envision the adolescent years. Adolescence is the stretch of childhood… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My father worked for the Foreign Office, so he was away a lot of the time. We were a very volatile family.… — Amanda Donohoe Copy Share Image
When you share something about your adolescence, it's a way to roll over and show your soft underbelly when it comes to… — Janet Varney Copy Share Image
I started playing the drums when I was 10 years old, I think because it was fun. And then when I hit… — Mitchell Joachim Copy Share Image
The onset of adulthood is an organic, creeping process. No one wakes up one day and decides, 'Lo, on this day I… — David Carr Copy Share Image
Children from ten to twenty don't want to be understood. Their whole ambition is to feel strange and alien and misinterpreted so… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
The chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work, and a need for the strengthening of… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“He'd possessed all the key elements of a school shooter: hormones, misery, ammunition. People wondered how something like Columbine could happen. Jude… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
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