Adolescence Quotes · Page 5

“One day you'll be cool. [Anita to her 11-yo brother William]”

— Cameron Crowe

Adolescence is a plague on the senses.

— Henry Rollins

Grow up and let anyone try to content with the adult you.

— Margaret Cho

I went through an awkward adolescence and had braces.

— Christina Ricci

At fourteen you don't need sickness or death for tragedy.

— Jessamyn West

Teenagers are my life and my triumph. I'd be nowhere without them.

— Elvis Presley

Through the eyes of a child we as adults need too grow up…ER

— Eddie Rothschild

I would dye my hair every week. I wanted to be a really goth teenager.

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

I blacked out my childhood after a string of traumatic events in my late adolescence.

— Hunx

The mentality of an army on the march is merely so much delayed adolescence; it remains persistently, incorrigibly and notoriously infantile.

— Albert J. Nock

The thing that's so hard about being a kid is you don't have enough knowledge to explain things yourself.

— Lena Dunham

If pornographers can hook adolescents when their hormones are raging, they know they'll have an ongoing consumer base for life.

— Donna Rice Hughes

I have decided to keep a full journal, in the hope that my life will perhaps seem more interesting when it is…

— Sue Townsend

“Bittersweet: it's what life tastes like. And if you can handle the bitter, the sweet will come later. ~ Klyde, in Piranhas…

— J.Z. Bingham

I had low blood sugar, a chemical imbalance, plus the normal nervous breakdown everyone goes through from adolescence to adulthood.

— Mel Brooks

Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolescence.

— Carrie Fisher

It's interesting because the first batch of really struggling with control and escape and all that happened when I was nearing adolescence,…

— Marti Noxon

I was approaching adolescence. For some reason, I guess my mother thought it would be less crazy out in the suburbs, which…

— Nellie McKay

“There are few physiques I loathe more than the heavy low-slung pelvis, thick calves and deplorable complexion of the average coed (in…

— Vladimir Nabokov

My experience in childhood and adolescence of the subordinate role played by the female in a society run entirely by men had…

— Rita Levi-Montalcini

“Adolescence is like a heavy rain. Even though you catch a cold from it, you still look forward to experiencing it once…

— Giddens Ko

“All I know is that growing up hurts too much. Growing down is what I'd really like to do. Be little enough…

— Bette Greene

At a stage when young people want more than anything to be like everyone else, they find themselves the least alike. Everyone…

— Laurence Steinberg

Normal men retain their childish longing for a woman to mother them. At adolescence a new desire is added. They want a…

— William Moulton Marston

Dogs are a really amazing eye opener for us humans because their lives are compressed into such a short period, so we…

— John Grogan

We carry adolescence around in our bodies all our lives. We get through the Car Crash Age alive and cruise through our…

— Garrison Keillor

Despite the fact that I have no regrets about how things turned out in my life, I still can't help wanting to…

— Emily Giffin

“After all, we were young. We were fourteen and fifteen, scornful of childhood, remote from the world of stern and ludicrous adults.…

— Steven Millhauser

“Sadness at that age had the pleasing texture of imprisonment: you reared and sulked against the bonds of parents and school and…

— Emma Cline

Girls face two major sexual issues in America in the 1990s: One is an old issue of coming to terms with their…

— Mary Pipher

“It’s hard not to be impatient with the absurdity of the young; they tell us that two and two make four as…

— W. Somerset Maugham

And she says she wants to expose me to all these great things. And to tell you the truth, I don't really…

— Stephen Chbosky

Nobody feels like an adult. It's the world's dirty secret.

— Richard Jenkins

My entire adolescence was geared toward one thing: gymnastics.

— Kerri Strug

“the awkwardness of adolescence still clinging to them.”

— Tim Kreider

All the best human impulses can be traced back to adolescence.

— Helene Deutsch

When people have children, they have to grow up!

— Kyle

“You can never really trust someone who remembers every embarrassing detail of your adolescence.”

— Daniel Clowes

“I believe that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise.”

— Margaret Atwood

the teenage zone: the stage when an adolescent's brain synapses quit firing while the rest of their body races toward adulthood.

— Becky Freeman