17 is the weirdest age, because you can't figure out if you want to grow up or be a child. — Maisie Williams Copy Share Image
I think sometimes as an adult, you take people for what they do, and what they are now, instead of the whole… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
'Star Wars' boils down to the transition from adolescence into adulthood. — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
I hate how much of your future is dependent on your adolescence. You never get to truly enjoy your childhood. You're forced… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you characterize yourself as 'adult,' stereotyping a problem as 'childish' can prevent you from examining its effects in your own life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Go to the adolescent who are smothered in family-- Oh how hideous it is To see three generations of one house gathered… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“But I could not fully admit it, even then. The way Suzanne's face looked as she watched him - I wanted to… — Emma Cline Copy Share Image
“Contemplating the adolescence through which we scorned the wrong, some of us must wish … that we could be born old, and… — Channing Pollock Copy Share Image
To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I can remember in my adolescence feeling that many of the things that were hurtful and hypocritical in society were things related… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
Kids growing up today will have what I never did growing up, which is somebody across that screen reflecting who they are,… — Simu Liu Copy Share Image
You don't have to be 'adults'... but be someone who can take responsibility for their own words and actions. Believe it or… — Natsuki Takaya Copy Share Image
Man has boyhood, adolescence, youth, middle age and senescence, as stages of growth; there are also corresponding stages in the growth of… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
One thing is certain: for many of those who came back from WWII, the music of Frank Sinatra was no consolation for… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
“Adolescence is a period of life when the brain is malleable, and it represents a good opportunity for learning and social development.… — John Brockman Copy Share Image
“My definition of an adult is someone who lives their life aware they are sharing the world with others. My definition of… — Robert Jackson Bennett Copy Share Image
I feel that adolescence has served its purpose when a person arrives at adulthood with a strong sense of self-esteem, the ability… — Virginia Satir Copy Share Image
What is now happening to the people of the East as of the West is like what happens to every individual when… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Being someone who had had a very difficult childhood, a very difficult adolescence - it had to do with not quite poverty,… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
I love '80s happy music. I love Cyndi Lauper and Madonna, and the idea of making music that's about people celebrating fun.… — Halsey Copy Share Image
The experience of being in between-between the time we leave home and arrive at our destination; between the time we leave adolescence… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
“There’s a huge difference between being childlike and being childish. When we embrace joy and look at the world with fresh eyes… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The day you realize you're a grownup is the day you realize that you have to do something. When we're kids, we… — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid,… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
She knew the intensity of adolescence, and knew no cure for it except growing up. And then one has age and experience,… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
“We push off the ground and break into a run. It is not a race, it’s just running. All we need to… — Sohn Won-Pyung Copy Share Image
“What season?” I asked. “A delayed adolescence, I guess. When I get up in the morning and see my face in the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Kids are smart nowadays, they are much more aware of their surroundings than we were 20 years ago, but at the same… — Priyanshu Chatterjee Copy Share Image
We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be… — Frances McDormand Copy Share Image
“She rode down the sidewalk, turned toward the shadow side of the street and melted into darkness. I didn't know it then,… — Craig Davidson Copy Share Image
Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
A single message from space will show that it is possible to live through technological adolescence. . . . It is possible… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Adolescents are attracted to tragic heroes. That's why rock stars dress like homeless people. Adolescence is a fall. It's when every child… — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
It is as if, to every period of history, there corresponded a privileged age and a particular division of human life: "youth"… — Philippe Aries Copy Share Image
I was very dreamy. Insular. I'm always amazed I survived adolescence at all and wasn't squashed flat by a juggernaut. Gaping, I… — Elizabeth Fraser Copy Share Image
Adolescence was only recognised as a life stage in the early 20th century, when psychologists got down to work. Today's generational battle… — Jane Ridley Copy Share Image
