“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
True love comes along after adolescence, when we have learned not to cry for nothing. — Sophia Loren 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
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 live a protracted adolescence. At some point you must leave the party. — Don Henley Copy Share Image
Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice. — David Elkind Copy Share Image
Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
Even though my parents are American, I spent my whole childhood and adolescence abroad. — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I remember myself at 10 years old telling stories to my sisters and brother. This is something I did through my adolescence… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
At a young age, I was very aware I was different and not perceived in a good way. For a lot of… — Mustafa Ali Copy Share Image
“The wild girl is with me always; she is my rage and my hunger, and if I live what passes for a… — Mary Stewart Atwell Copy Share Image
The idea that everyone in their lives has played a video game is becoming more acceptable to the general audience. Now we… — Rob Manuel Copy Share Image
“It was a major and deeply embarrassing teenage revelation. It must be how straight teenage boys feel when they realize those boobs… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
The more intelligent and competent a woman is in her adult life, the less likely she is to have received an adequate… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
“He'd been given an assignment to write about teen beauty pageants [...], which he'd accepted because he enjoyed blood sports as much… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Growing up means letting go of the dearest megalomaniacal dreams of our childhood. Growing up means knowing they can't be fulfilled. Growing… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
“His adolescent nerdliness vaporizing any iota of a chance he had for young love. Everybody else going through the terror and joy… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
My childhood, adolescence and high school days are unusually important. If there has ever been a time that I developed a uniqueness… — Lee Atwater Copy Share Image
Most people don't get out of childhood, or adolescence, without being wounded for telling the truth. Someone says 'you can't say that'… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
The notion that the 'leader' has the right to ask huge sacrifices of your generation for a notional future paradise - if… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The most significant change wrought by adolescence is the taming of the ideals by which a person measures himself. . . .… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
“If by adolescence limbic, autonomic, and endocrine systems are going full blast while the frontal cortex is still working out the assembly… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being an adult is about learning how to die.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Going through adolescence looking like a hormone experiment wasn't easy. — Stacey Solomon 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
We become adolescents when the words that adults exchange with one another become intelligible to us. — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
“The trick to being an adult is maintaining that childlike wonder while still managing to do soul-killing things like paying bills.” — Katee Robert Copy Share Image
How strange that the young should always think the world is against them - when in fact that is the only time… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood. — Chris Van Hollen Copy Share Image
What do we do with ourselves when we find we have failed to become the adults we dreamed as pious children? — Joanna Brooks Copy Share Image
Growing up is hard enough. When you have to deal with adults all day, it's just that much more difficult. — Cris Collinsworth Copy Share Image
Obviously I went through my adolescence on national TV, but it's great looking back. — Kelvin Fletcher Copy Share Image
Adolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
If you enjoyed high school, you were probably a psychopath or a cheerleader. Or possibly both. — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
In our house we say 'adolescence' is a western word. We don't believe in it. — Mira Nair 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
You have to be an adult; there is no sitting around and feeling sorry for yourself. — Jamie Lynn Spears Copy Share Image
In my adolescence, everyone would like to play in Italy: Roma, Milan, Lazio, Juventus, Sampdoria, Napoli. — Cafu Copy Share Image
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