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
Maturity is when your world opens up and you realize that you are not the center of it. — M.J. Croan Copy Share Image
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
“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
Growing up is like a disease. It gets worse and worse every day. And in the end it kills you — Anonymous 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
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
'Great Expectations' was an important novel in my adolescence. It was very much one of those emblematic novels that made me wish… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“When you live in New York or any big city, it is easy to fail at growing up. The city is designed… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Adolescents are like cockroaches: They come out the minute you leave town, crawl the walls, feed indiscriminately, reproduce alarmingly unless drugged, and… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
Adolescence can be a time of turmoil and turbulence, of stress and storm. Rebellion against authority and against convention is to be… — Haim Ginott Copy Share Image
When you have little girls, you're the coolest person in the world. I know at some point that's going to end; in… — Jerry O'Connell Copy Share Image
We have to acknowledge that adolescence is that time of transition where we begin to introduce to children that life isn't pretty,… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
In times past there were rituals of passage that conducted a boy into manhood, where other men passed along the wisdom and… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
Apart from a period of crisis during my adolescence, when my voice was changing and I could not tame it - it… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
The years between thirty-five and sixty-five revolve before the passive mind as one unexplained, confusing merry-go-round. True, they are a merry-go-round of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
These principles with due regard to time and place, must, in accordance with Christian prudence, be applied to all schools, particularly in… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
“Hazel understood. Being grown up meant doing what grown-ups wanted you to do. it meant sacrificing your imagination for rules. It meant… — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
There's only one thing harder than living in a home with an adolescent - and that's being an adolescent. The moodiness, the… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
“Some of being an adult, though, is about protecting and preserving what we discover to be the best parts of ourselves, and… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a time when children are supposed to move away from parents who are holding firm and protective behind them. When… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
Being an adult, you've already suffered enough from your own mistakes, and the world, to come to this as a humble human… — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence. Children grow up… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
Content without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence. — Rita Mae Brown 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
Being an adult is the ability to postpone a want for the sake of a family need. — Chris Hogan 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
Adolescence involves our nutty-desperate-ecstatic-rash psychological efforts to come to terms with new bodies and outrageous urges. — Judith Viorst 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 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
By the time I was in my early teens, we were able to move into a much more middle-class area. I had… — George Michael Copy Share Image
“We don’t do all our growing up between birth and adolescence or even our twenties. If we’re fortunate, we never stop. *” — Diane Guerrero Copy Share Image
True love comes along after adolescence, when we have learned not to cry for nothing. — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
“Stop looking at what everyone else has! You have to figure out who you are before you can be anyone!” — Setona Mizushiro 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
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 don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. — John Ciardi 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
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
