“Adolescence is the same tragedy being performed again and again. The only things that change are the stage props.” — Lindsey Leavitt Copy Share Image
many of us are done with adolescence before we are done with adolescent love. — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
I remember adolescence, the years of having the impulse control of a mousetrap, of being as private as a safe-deposit box. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult. — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
Our children tremble in their teen-age cribs, whirling off on a thumb or a motorcycle. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
You have to let kids be kids. Robbing them of their childhood and/or adolescence is not fair. — Sussanne Khan Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born. — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
The age of puberty is a crisis in the age of man worth studying. It is the passage from the unconscious to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I sort of found King Diamond in second grade, but I didn't become a devoted Satanist until a few years later, but… — Tobias Forge Copy Share Image
Sex begins before adolescence, and survives sterility; it is indeed coeval with our lives, although at the mating age its effects are… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
We don't want to act like adults. Anybody who can stay in a state of adolescence will be much better off later… — Tom DeLonge Copy Share Image
If you have older children who avoid you like the plague, buy yourself some expensive bath salts, run a hot tub, and… — Teresa Bloomingdale Copy Share Image
Adolescence and early youth...the fires are burning fastest, right? And your energy level is highest. It demands...and rock is screaming type music. — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
“Partly James was jealous because he was a virgin, but mostly it just felt really weird being in a room with two… — Robert Muchamore Copy Share Image
It's about transitioning from adolescence, when you live together with parents and see each other every day, to the era when you… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
I was a serious comic collector and fanboy as a kid. I wanted very badly to draw comic books for a lot… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“Most adults assume that the feelings of adolescence don't count, somehow, and that those searing passions of rage and hate and embarrassment… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
Here is what I'm trying to tell you: Adult isn't a noun, it's a verb. It's the act of making correctly those… — Kelly Williams Brown 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
With tremendous clarity and wisdom, Daniel Tomasulo has crafted a memoir at once heartbreaking and uplifting. Layers of time and memory—childhood, adolescence,… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
In adolescence, it's 'How do I fit in?' In your 20s, 'What do I want to do?' Your 30s, 'Is this what… — Chris Pine Copy Share Image
One's teachers all belonged to that generation who were imperialists, and the whole narrative throughout my adolescence was of countries leaving the… — Jeremy Paxman Copy Share Image
Ambivalence reaches the level of schizophrenia in our treatment of violence among the young. Parents do not encourage violence, but neither do… — C. Sommerville Copy Share Image
The teenagers aren't all bad. I love 'em if nobody else does. There ain't nothing wrong with young people. Jus' quit lyin'… — Moms Mabley Copy Share Image
Standing in the line at the food court, I try to be myself. But I forget how I usually stand when I'm… — Susane Colasanti Copy Share Image
There is a weirdness about having a famous pre-pubescent in the house when you are going through the trials and tribulations of… — Danny Bonaduce Copy Share Image
I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence. — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
Sometimes being an adult means doing the right thing, even if it's not what you want. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“Whats the point in being grown up when you cant act childish sometimes?” — Natalie Repinski Copy Share Image
Perhaps the world progresses not by maturing, but by being in a permanent state of adolescence, of thrilled discovery. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“I believe that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
the teenage zone: the stage when an adolescent's brain synapses quit firing while the rest of their body races toward adulthood. — Becky Freeman Copy Share Image
“You can never really trust someone who remembers every embarrassing detail of your adolescence.” — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
“Bittersweet: it's what life tastes like. And if you can handle the bitter, the sweet will come later. ~ Klyde, in Piranhas… — J.Z. Bingham Copy Share Image
I have decided to keep a full journal, in the hope that my life will perhaps seem more interesting when it is… — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
I had low blood sugar, a chemical imbalance, plus the normal nervous breakdown everyone goes through from adolescence to adulthood. — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolescence. — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
The thing that's so hard about being a kid is you don't have enough knowledge to explain things yourself. — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
If pornographers can hook adolescents when their hormones are raging, they know they'll have an ongoing consumer base for life. — Donna Rice Hughes Copy Share Image
