If you characterize yourself as 'adult,' stereotyping a problem as 'childish' can prevent you from examining its effects in your own life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think sometimes as an adult, you take people for what they do, and what they are now, instead of the whole… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
'Star Wars' boils down to the transition from adolescence into adulthood. — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
I hate how much of your future is dependent on your adolescence. You never get to truly enjoy your childhood. You're forced… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
17 is the weirdest age, because you can't figure out if you want to grow up or be a child. — Maisie Williams Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born. — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
Our children tremble in their teen-age cribs, whirling off on a thumb or a motorcycle. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
One thing I feel is this: that a great deal of poetry is the product of adolescence-or of an emotionally adolescent frame… — James Agee Copy Share Image
“He was fiercely beautiful in the way some young males are, as if their whole being were being lived through their eyes,… — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
The thing about adolescence is that you are emerging from a state of obscurity. You are coming out into the world from… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
men change less than is imagined; their after life is only a kaleidescope combination of the elements of their character at the… — Geraldine Jewsbury Copy Share Image
With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Most grown people are like icebergs, three-tenths showing, seven-tenths submerged - that is why a collision with one of them is unexpectedly… — Rumer Godden Copy Share Image
I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know,… — Uma Thurman Copy Share Image
“Modern parents can take comfort from the fact that most of our teenagers come through adolescence, too—perhaps a little bruised, maybe a… — Barbara Natterson-Horowitz Copy Share Image
I lived through the Fifties in the Midwest when everything that was happening - the repression of homosexuality, for instance, the demonization… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
The signs that presage growth, so similar, it seems to me, to those in early adolescence: discontent, restlessness, doubt, despair, longing, are… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“I may have smiled to myself as I watched the familiar pattern of the town pass, the bus cruising through shade to… — Emma Cline Copy Share Image
Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Another reason for the increased self-centeredness of an adolescent is her susceptibility to humiliation. This brazen, defiant creature is also something tender,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The troubles of the 20th century are not unlike those of adolescence -- rapid growth beyond the ability of organizations to manage,… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Infancy is the realm conveyed to us in dreams which look backward to the past. Adolescence, more like a work of art,… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
“I spent half my childhood trying to be like my dad. True for most boys, I think. It turns with adolescence. The… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
You have to let kids be kids. Robbing them of their childhood and/or adolescence is not fair. — Sussanne Khan Copy Share Image
I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult. — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
many of us are done with adolescence before we are done with adolescent love. — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
“Adolescence is the same tragedy being performed again and again. The only things that change are the stage props.” — Lindsey Leavitt Copy Share Image
I remember adolescence, the years of having the impulse control of a mousetrap, of being as private as a safe-deposit box. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Perhaps the world progresses not by maturing, but by being in a permanent state of adolescence, of thrilled discovery. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Standing in the line at the food court, I try to be myself. But I forget how I usually stand when I'm… — Susane Colasanti Copy Share Image
There is a weirdness about having a famous pre-pubescent in the house when you are going through the trials and tribulations of… — Danny Bonaduce Copy Share Image
I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence. — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
Sometimes being an adult means doing the right thing, even if it's not what you want. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“Whats the point in being grown up when you cant act childish sometimes?” — Natalie Repinski Copy Share Image
The teenagers aren't all bad. I love 'em if nobody else does. There ain't nothing wrong with young people. Jus' quit lyin'… — Moms Mabley Copy Share Image
she wanted to dance with someone who would embrace her in the way she dreamed of since adolescence. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“He'd obviously spent his college years refining the art of adolescence...” — Jenifer LeClair Copy Share Image
Trying to grow up is hurting. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don't, it hurts even… — Aretha Franklin Copy Share Image
Ambition robs you of your childhood. The moment you want to become an adult—in any way—something in your childhood dies. — John Irving Copy Share Image
