In no order of things is adolescence the time of the simple life. — Janet Erskine Stuart Copy Share Image
When you grow up around sadness, it affects the way you see the world. — Sofia Helin Copy Share Image
He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence. — Aneurin Bevan Copy Share Image
Thank God I had two parents who loved me enough to stay on my case. — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for. — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
Growing up is like a disease. It gets worse and worse every day. And in the end it kills you — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You don't just get over it. And it doesn't make any difference if you're supposedly a grown-up. It never goes away.” — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
A large part of my adolescence was spent doing my very best to draw attention to myself. — Rufus Sewell Copy Share Image
I think I've been lucky enough to have had an extended adolescence. I'm a lot like I was when I was 15. — Ariel Pink Copy Share Image
Growing up crowds your mind with new thoughts and new feelings so that you forget how you used to think and feel. — Maureen Daly Copy Share Image
A mother can legitimately be said to 'have a baby' - but in a civilization such as ours, she can never claim… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
You can certainly extend your adolescence. There's people that are very good at extending it indefinitely. — Ben Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
Those who tread 'adult' as a term of approval cannot hope to be considered adult themselves. When I became a man I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the main tasks of adolescence is to achieve an identity--not necessarily a knowledge of who we are, but a clarification… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of… — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
Looking back at that now I shudder at my naivety: while 'Men Behaving Badly' remains a brilliant sitcom, how did I ever… — Josh Widdicombe 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 an earthquake, one that feels like it will never end while you're living it, and eventually there comes a choice.… — Daniel Barnett Copy Share Image
Traditionally parents have wondered what their teens were doing, but now teens are much more likely to be doing things that can… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of my adolescence in Miami, where it was super humid, and my hair would get super frizzy, and… — Camila Mendes Copy Share Image
“It is in adolescence that most of us grasp that life--our own life--is a problem to be solved, that a set of… — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
I think that every child grows up with the ideas that what we our given, is our society. Your education, and your… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
Something went klunk. Like a nickel dropping in a soda machine. One of those small insights that explains everything. This was puberty… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
Up until the age of 13, girls are confident, and they feel like they can conquer the world. Then adolescence sets in,… — Joanna Coles Copy Share Image
Fitzgerald never got rid of anything; the ghosts of his adolescence, the failures of his youth, the doubts of his maturity plagued… — John Aldridge Copy Share Image
Something that had an enormous influence over my relationship with language was my stammer. I had a really bad stammer in my… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
“Later, at the sink in our van, Mama rinsed the blue stain and the odd spiders, caterpillars, and stems from the bucket.… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
When you're kept out of the adult world, it's a blessing in disguise. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
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