“Oh, he's a sweet thing and I love him so--and I love life--and everything's beautiful!” — Cornelia Spelman Copy Share Image
The early adolescence years are crucial for a child's cognitive, emotional and social development. — Patty Mills 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
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
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
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
Adolescence as the time when an individual ‘recapitulates’ the savage stage of the race’s past. — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
All any grownup expects of an adolescent is that he act like an adult and be satisfied to be treated like a… — John Grant Copy Share Image
“Tombstones covered the dale, the smooth marble surfaces bright. She had spent days here as a teenager, though not out of any… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I am invariably and have been since adolescence inimical to the Republican mind which shows at the most inflated size the bad… — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
When you're doing something you're not used to, you kind of realize that you're still a kid: even though the whole world… — Mitski Copy Share Image
I got really good input up until the age of 11, which is perfect. That's when adolescence starts, when I would have… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
“He'd possessed all the key elements of a school shooter: hormones, misery, ammunition. People wondered how something like Columbine could happen. Jude… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
This is no time to let down our guard on youth violence. Research demonstrates that appropriate interventions made during or prior to… — David Satcher Copy Share Image
I may not have gone to high school every day, but I spent whole a lot of my adolescence feeling vulnerable and… — Michael Cera Copy Share Image
For most people, self-awareness and self-pity blossom simultaneously in early adolescence. It's about that time that we start viewing the world as… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I love 'Sweet Valley,' but I love it from a different angle. There are people for whom it is their adolescence. They… — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
I wanted to know why people follow rules blindly, or why girls had to act a certain way and boys didn't. Why… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Growing up is never straight forward. There are moments when everything is fine, and other moments where you realize that there are… — Alden Nowlan Copy Share Image
We carry adolescence around in our bodies all our lives. Weget through the Car Crash Agealive and cruise through our early twenties… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
The adolescent frequently supposes that she is breaking out of the confines of her mundane, schoolgirl existence simply in order to break… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
“So it was a crossroads summer, when the universe seemed to stand perilously still like an egg wobbling on a precipice, a… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“That night I dreamed about flying turtles and forest fires and fucking the earth...The next morning I awoke and I listened to… — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive; imagination, not seldom, is sedate. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
If God wanted a world filled with saints, He never would have created adolescence. — Susan Beth Pfeffer Copy Share Image
When you're lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
I look back at my adolescence, and I'm shocked at the things I did that were my idea of adult behavior. — Katherine Waterston Copy Share Image
Adolescence, the time to live, experience, love before the monotonia of adulthood, so let's live the day without hate or sorrow — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I think anyone who's ever gone through adolescence and wanted something from their parents knows the basic tenets of a con. — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
I wanted to make a body of work that looked at what it felt like to be a boy going through adolescence. — Polixeni Papapetrou Copy Share Image
Having children truly ends adolescence. We are all either parents or children: responsibility-takers or those who demand from others. — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
My adolescence was a kind of motorway pile-up. I wish I had known that one day the geek would inherit the Earth. — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
she wanted to dance with someone who would embrace her in the way she dreamed of since adolescence. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“He'd obviously spent his college years refining the art of adolescence...” — Jenifer LeClair Copy Share Image
Trying to grow up is hurting. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don't, it hurts even… — Aretha Franklin Copy Share Image
Ambition robs you of your childhood. The moment you want to become an adult—in any way—something in your childhood dies. — John Irving Copy Share Image
A part of adolescence is feelimg that there's no one else around who's enough like youself to understand you. — John Irving Copy Share Image
From childhood to adolescence, girls face mixed messages about displaying power and authority. — Rachel Simmons Copy Share Image
