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
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
This sentiment of self-contempt is a frequent one in young people of both sexes. Their valuation of themselves varies as much as… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The meaningful role of the father of the bride was played out long before the church music began. It stretched across those… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
Age childish makes, they say, but 'tis not true; We're only genuine children still in Age's season. [Ger., Das Alter macht nicht… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work, and a need for the strengthening of… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Children from ten to twenty don't want to be understood. Their whole ambition is to feel strange and alien and misinterpreted so… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
When you share something about your adolescence, it's a way to roll over and show your soft underbelly when it comes to… — Janet Varney Copy Share Image
The onset of adulthood is an organic, creeping process. No one wakes up one day and decides, 'Lo, on this day I… — David Carr Copy Share Image
The adolescent does not develop her identity and individuality by moving outside her family. She is not triggered by some magic unconscious… — Terri E Apter Copy Share Image
“Being a failed teenager is not a crime, but a predicament and a secret crucible. It is a fun-house mirror where distortion… — Pat Conroy 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
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
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
“For the first time, she recognized the symptoms of infatuation which she had felt incipiently as a child, as a girl in… — Kate Chopin 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
I started playing the drums when I was 10 years old, I think because it was fun. And then when I hit… — Mitchell Joachim Copy Share Image
My father worked for the Foreign Office, so he was away a lot of the time. We were a very volatile family.… — Amanda Donohoe 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 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
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
Adolescence is the period of the decisive last battle fought before maturity. The ego must achieve independence, the old emotional ties must… — Helene Deutsch Copy Share Image
Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
Childhood, young adulthood is fluid. And it's very easy to get labeled very young and have to carry something through your childhood… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
adolescence is a sort of underworld we have to live through. Everything is in us, even vice and crime. At the same… — Grace Zaring Stone 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
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
“the “work” of adolescence—the testing of boundaries, the passion to explore what is unknown and exciting—can set the stage for the development… — Daniel J. Siegel Copy Share Image
Childhood was definitely my most formative time in terms of my creative self. My adolescence was very much the dark years. I… — Julio Torres Copy Share Image
I hit adolescence only to discover my autobiography had already been written; plagiarized, in fact, by a man named J.D. Salinger who,… — Stephen Metcalf Copy Share Image
“No-one had ever looked at me before Suzanne, not really, so she had become my definition. Her gaze softening my centre so… — Emma Cline Copy Share Image
“Maybe being an adult wasn't crossing some arbitrary age line into wisdom. Maybe it was like anything else - training wheels and… — Megan Crane Copy Share Image
To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I believe in humanity. We are an incredible species. We're still just a child creature, we're still being nasty to each other.… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image