Adolescence Quotes · Page 7

A part of adolescence is feelimg that there's no one else around who's enough like youself to understand you.

— John Irving

From childhood to adolescence, girls face mixed messages about displaying power and authority.

— Rachel Simmons

Being an adult means accepting those situations where no action is possible.

— John D. MacDonald

Massachusetts is the first state in America to reach full adulthood. The rest of America is still in adolescence.

— Uwe Reinhardt

Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.

— Caitlin Flanagan

I was a lot younger - when I wrote Water Lilies. I was like 26. It felt so natural to write about adolescence.

— Celine Sciamma

Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence.

— Anonymous

Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive; imagination, not seldom, is sedate.

— Walter Savage Landor

Kids want acceptance from their peers, but in two different, opposing ways: They want to be like everyone else and they want…

— E. L. Konigsburg

I liked the idea that my character was not gonna be the typical dumb guy that I play, typically. I also loved…

— Jim Gaffigan

“What was he? A mere human, stuck between the rungs of blended adolescence and nascent adulthood. What power did he command over…

— Faraaz Kazi

“...the changes during adolescence are not something to just get through; they are qualities we actually need to hold on to in…

— Daniel J. Siegel

For is it not possible that middle age can be looked upon as a period of second flowering, second growth, even a…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Everything was brighter and more colorful in those years, as if my childhood was ending in an explosion of unreal passion that…

— Roman Payne

Something dramatic happens to girls in early adolescence. Just as planes and ships disappear mysteriously into the Bermuda Triangle, so do the…

— Mary Pipher

Some adolescents are troubled and some get into trouble. But the great majority (almost nine out of ten) do not. . .…

— Laurence Steinberg

“The drone in my ear, it’s like the tornado drill in elementary school, the hand-cranked siren that rang mercilessly, all of us…

— Megan Abbott

The attack on youth is a national pathology, unwarranted by fact, smokescreen for the failure of adulthood and its leadership to confront…

— Mike A. Males

“But from the very start, there is that small streak of steel within each child. That thing that says “I am,” and…

— Diana Gabaldon

“If you happen to be white in a white country; pretty according to the dictates of fashion; rich in a country where…

— Maya Angelou

One can imagine a time when men who still inhabit organic bodies are regarded with pity by those who have passed on…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“In idyllic small towns I sometimes see teenagers looking out of place in their garb of desperation, the leftover tatters and stains…

— Rebecca Solnit

To wear stays forces you into the elegant, balletic posture of a Georgian minuet-dancer. As with the tight-lacing, there is still great…

— Lucy Worsley

Life flies by, and it's easy to get lost in the blur. In adolescence, it's 'How do I fit in?' In your…

— Chris Pine

All any grownup expects of an adolescent is that he act like an adult and be satisfied to be treated like a…

— John Grant

Adolescence, the time to live, experience, love before the monotonia of adulthood, so let's live the day without hate or sorrow

— Anonymous

When you're lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.

— Erma Bombeck

I look back at my adolescence, and I'm shocked at the things I did that were my idea of adult behavior.

— Katherine Waterston

If God wanted a world filled with saints, He never would have created adolescence.

— Susan Beth Pfeffer

I think anyone who's ever gone through adolescence and wanted something from their parents knows the basic tenets of a con.

— Matt Bomer

If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you.

— Toni Morrison

I wanted to make a body of work that looked at what it felt like to be a boy going through adolescence.

— Polixeni Papapetrou

My adolescence was a kind of motorway pile-up. I wish I had known that one day the geek would inherit the Earth.

— Peter Capaldi

Having children truly ends adolescence. We are all either parents or children: responsibility-takers or those who demand from others.

— Ben Shapiro

If you enjoyed high school, you were probably a psychopath or a cheerleader. Or possibly both.

— Jenny Lawson

Adolescence, that swampy zone between safety and power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense and mercy, not guns and a…

— Nancy Gibbs

You have to be an adult; there is no sitting around and feeling sorry for yourself.

— Jamie Lynn Spears

In our house we say 'adolescence' is a western word. We don't believe in it.

— Mira Nair

In my adolescence, everyone would like to play in Italy: Roma, Milan, Lazio, Juventus, Sampdoria, Napoli.

— Cafu

The early adolescence years are crucial for a child's cognitive, emotional and social development.

— Patty Mills