“Adolescence is nothing if not a working model of peer influence in its purest form.” — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
“When you’re a child, you think your family works in a straight line. Then you get older and find out where the… — Brando Skyhorse Copy Share Image
Teenagers are like cats - they have important business that doesn't involve mere humans. — Julie Smith Copy Share Image
Being stuck in adolescence - that's a hell. 'Peter Pan' is a dystopia, and we forget that. Neverland is a bad place… — Ben Sasse Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a border between childhood and adulthood. Like all borders, it's teeming with energy and fraught with danger. — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a kind of emotional seasickness. Both are funny, but only in retrospect. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Storybooks were always a big part of my imagination, and my childhood and adolescence. — Jesse Williams Copy Share Image
The phenomenal success of the recovery movement reflects two simple truths that emerge in adolescence: all people love to talk about themselves,… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
To me everyone goes through that at some point in adolescence, you know. There's - you meet someone when you're a young… — Don Hertzfeldt Copy Share Image
Many, many individuals will report starting to form their lifelong interests around adolescence. Why that is, researchers don't fully know. But if… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
Stages of life are artifacts. Adolescence is a useful contrivance, midlife is a moving target, senior citizens are an interest group, and… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
I got a good-enough adolescence. I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working… — Ben Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence and manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn with tests, deaths, feats, rites, stories, songs, and judgments. — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
'Lives' is one of those books I should really have written when I was younger. It is the classic childhood, adolescence, breakthrough-into-maturity… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I designed 'Buffy' to be an icon, to be an emotional experience, to be loved in a way that other shows can't… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
When you're sixteen and struggling to forge an identity out of a morass of hormones and daydreams, remarks like that cut a… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
In my journey to becoming an artist who writes, I tend to start my idea process with simple, concrete messages that relate… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
“Then there were long, lazy summer afternoons when there was nothing to do but read. And dream. And watch the town go… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
Adults are always telling young people, 'These are the best years of your life.' Are they? I don't know. Sometimes when adults… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
“Of course, all animals have different things to learn while traversing the arc that takes them from sexually immature, vulnerable child to… — Barbara Natterson-Horowitz Copy Share Image
“This was a factory, a sorting house. We were no different from dogs and pigs and cows: all of us were allowed… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
“Everybody else going through the terror and joy of their first crushes, their first dates, their first kisses while Oscar sat in… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
“Many parents have experienced the fact that kids don’t seem to honor their parents the way that previous generations of children did.… — Fiona Dimas-Herd Copy Share Image
“If growing up means not seeing one’s family and friends on the regular—all in the name of paying the bills, then growing… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The overwhelmingly successful trial book of my early adolescence had been To Kill A Mocking Bird. — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
When you have three teenagers, it gives a whole new meaning to "homeland security." — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Young people want to look like peas in a pod, and there is no use trying to make them different. — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence. — Art Linkletter Copy Share Image
Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
“The problem with growing up,” Quentin said, “is that once you’re grown up, people who aren’t grown up aren’t fun anymore.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
From adolescence to death there is something very personal about being a Negro in America. — Jay Saunders Redding Copy Share Image
So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Adolescence is that time in your life when you discover your ability to be depressed. — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
F. Scott Fitzgerald thought that prolonging his adolescence would protect his talent. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“Most of the students there, he said, don't know what they think. You tell 'em, they'll think it. I plan to tell… — John Knowles Copy Share Image
The main thing that I want to say is that I don't think women are at their most beautiful in their adolescence… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
“So long as our parents are alive, we are children. Then we become childish.” — Ljupka Cvetanova Copy Share Image
