Adolescence has such a negative connotation and it shouldn't. It's experimentation, it's being unsure, no preconceived notions. — Mary Tyler Moore Copy Share Image
Maturity is when your world opens up and you realize that you are not the center of it. — M.J. Croan Copy Share Image
Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Surprise! Adolescence is not an exciting adventure. It's actually very boring and lonelier than you could ever imagine.” — Frank Warren Copy Share Image
The mentality of an army on the march is merely so much delayed adolescence; it remains persistently, incorrigibly and notoriously infantile. — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
The idols of one's adolescence tend to endure - you never forget how you worshipped them. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
I blacked out my childhood after a string of traumatic events in my late adolescence. — Hunx Copy Share Image
Adolescence is not only an important period in life, but that it is the only period where one may speak of life… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
I believe in humanity. We are an incredible species. We're still just a child creature, we're still being nasty to each other.… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
I went through my adolescence having this revelatory experience - I can have any music I want, and I can get it… — Grimes Copy Share Image
Fourteen-year-old, why must you giggle and dote, Fourteen-year-old, why are you such a goat? I'm fourteen years old, that is the reason,… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
“Let's just give her a ride into town," Suzanne said. She spoke briskly, like I was a mess that needed to be… — Emma Cline Copy Share Image
Since adolescence I've had a passion for Romantic Fantastique literature, which continued with Expressionism and culminated with the genius of Kafka. It's… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
In order to obey God, one must receive his commands. How did it happen that I received them in adolescence, while I… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
After puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious… Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
The secret to adulthood is that 99% of the time, you actually know the right thing to do. Adults make it hard… — Jason Kander Copy Share Image
“Girls get their boobs and forget they were ever so gutsy and smart. Boys, too, can display their own brand of clever… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“When I was younger, I would cling to life because life was at the top of the turning wheel. But like the… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
The adolescent does not develop her identity and individuality by moving outside her family. She is not triggered by some magic unconscious… — Terri E Apter Copy Share Image
“Being a failed teenager is not a crime, but a predicament and a secret crucible. It is a fun-house mirror where distortion… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
The one thing I would like to get across about my whole feeling regarding high school is how I was when I… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
I've been a writer and a parent since adolescence, it feels like, and I'm still making both gigs up as I go… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
“For as long as I could remember, I had been transparent to myself, unselfconscious, learning, doing, most of every day. Now I… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“For the first time, she recognized the symptoms of infatuation which she had felt incipiently as a child, as a girl in… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession. — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
Adolescence involves our nutty-desperate-ecstatic-rash psychological efforts to come to terms with new bodies and outrageous urges. — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
In my adolescence, love, as I think for most of us, was a tremendous focus. I wanted to find the perfect partner.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Being an adult is the ability to postpone a want for the sake of a family need. — Chris Hogan 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
Content without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Our teen-agers withdrew to their bedrooms on their thirteenth birthday and didn't show themselves to us again until it was time to… — Erma Bombeck 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
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
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
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. — John Ciardi 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
