We become adolescents when the words that adults exchange with one another become intelligible to us. — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
“I met Baba Yaga at the end of childhood – past pigtails and fairytales, but not quite ready to give up on make-believe.” — Kirsty Logan Copy Share Image
In my adolescence, everyone would like to play in Italy: Roma, Milan, Lazio, Juventus, Sampdoria, Napoli. — Cafu Copy Share Image
You have to be an adult; there is no sitting around and feeling sorry for yourself. — Jamie Lynn Spears Copy Share Image
Adolescence, that swampy zone between safety and power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense and mercy, not guns and a… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
In our house we say 'adolescence' is a western word. We don't believe in it. — Mira Nair Copy Share Image
If you enjoyed high school, you were probably a psychopath or a cheerleader. Or possibly both. — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
Being an adult means knowing you can have cake for every meal, but choosing not to have cake for every meal because… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You start getting hit with some very interesting situations in life - you as a parent - when they approach that teenage… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
Growing up is hard when you start losing faith in the only thing you believed. Growing up is hard because you have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It may comfort you to know that if your child reaches the age of eleven or twelve and you have a good… — Charlotte Sophia Kasl Copy Share Image
The needs of children during adolescence are particular and acute. They need an opportunity to develop a sense of identity and to… — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a time of active deconstruction, construction, reconstruction--a period in which past, present, and future are rewoven and strung together on… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Most mothers worry when their daughters reach adolescence but I was the opposite. I relaxed, I sighed with relief. Little girls are… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
But let us not forget that cities are like human beings. They are born, they go through childhood and adolescence, they grow… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Radio wasn't outside our lives. It coincided with and helped to shape our childhood and adolescence. As we slogged toward maturity, it… — Vincent Canby Copy Share Image
Listening to learn isn't about giving advice--at least not until asked--but about trying to understand exactly what someone means,how it is that… — Elizabeth Debold Copy Share Image
Just because you're an adult doesn't mean you're grown up. Growing up means being patient, holding your temper, cutting out the self-pity,… — Brandon Stanton Copy Share Image
Personally I feel that real rock 'n' roll may be on the way out, just like adolescence as a relatively innocent transitional… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
I have dwelt ever in realms apart from the visible world; spending my youth and adolescence in ancient and little-known books, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Growing up is something that you do your whole life. I want to always feel that I can be a kid if… — Robert Downey, Jr Copy Share Image
“For that moment at least they seemed to give up external plans, theories, and codes, even the inescapable romantic curiosity about one… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
In 1992 I was doing one of my first ever tours and I was in Heathrow airport and I saw these middle-aged… — Moby Copy Share Image
“For the first time in my life, I actually wished that everyone was the same. And I despised myself for my "differentness"… — Laura Hanna Copy Share Image
Adolescence as the time when an individual ‘recapitulates’ the savage stage of the race’s past. — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
Someone once remarked that in adolescence pornography is a substitute for sex, whereas in adulthood sex is a substitute for pornography. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Your whole childhood is just absent of choices. And then you become an adult, and every choice you make, you open some… — Maya Hawke Copy Share Image
Adolescence-is it the first time in life we discover that we have something terrible to hide from those who love us? — John Irving Copy Share Image
The early adolescence years are crucial for a child's cognitive, emotional and social development. — Patty Mills Copy Share Image
“Oh, he's a sweet thing and I love him so--and I love life--and everything's beautiful!” — Cornelia Spelman Copy Share Image
What adolescence is about is by trial and error, honing a frontal cortex that is going to be more optimal by the… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence. — Brooke Shields Copy Share Image
Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion. — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a stressful time for girls because of the momentous physical and physiological changes that take place. — Mazher Copy Share Image
Although I was well past my teenage troubles, our music was specifically designed to lubricate the passage from adolescence to adulthood. — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
I blacked out my childhood after a string of traumatic events in my late adolescence. — Hunx Copy Share Image
The idols of one's adolescence tend to endure - you never forget how you worshipped them. — Molly Ivins 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
“Surprise! Adolescence is not an exciting adventure. It's actually very boring and lonelier than you could ever imagine.” — Frank Warren Copy Share Image
