The phenomenal success of the recovery movement reflects two simple truths that emerge in adolescence: all people love to talk about themselves,… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence and manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn with tests, deaths, feats, rites, stories, songs, and judgments. — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
'Lives' is one of those books I should really have written when I was younger. It is the classic childhood, adolescence, breakthrough-into-maturity… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I got a good-enough adolescence. I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working… — Ben Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
It seems that one moment I was this little kid only caring about animals and flowers and stuff, and then the next… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
I think there's so much to play in adolescence; there's so many conflicting things happening and so many changes, and there's just… — Alexis Bledel Copy Share Image
“In ancient Greece, adolescence was a time when young men left their biological families to become the lovers of adult men. Sexuality… — Barry D. Adam Copy Share Image
Any book that can help you survive the slings and arrows of adolescence is a book to love for life; 'The Catcher… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
The first typical adolescent of modern times was Wagner's Siegfried. : the music of Siegfried expressed for the first time that combination… — Philippe Aries Copy Share Image
Adolescence hits boys harder than it does girls. Girls bleed a little and their breasts pop out, big deal, but adolescence lands… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“I've had a great deal of experience with adolescents over the centuries, and I've discovered that as a group these awkward half… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“On a nightstand in a teenager’s room, a glass vase filled with violets leans precariously against a wall. The only thing saving… — Jay Nichols Copy Share Image
Ordinarily during the stage of your life when you're going through your adolescence and you're completely awkward and uncomfortable, the rest of… — Tina Majorino Copy Share Image
“He picks up speed and seems to lose his gangliness, the slouchy funk of hormones and unbelonging and all the stammering things… — Don Delillo Underworld Copy Share Image
“Everybody else going through the terror and joy of their first crushes, their first dates, their first kisses while Oscar sat in… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
“Many parents have experienced the fact that kids don’t seem to honor their parents the way that previous generations of children did.… — Fiona Dimas-Herd Copy Share Image
Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or… — Joe Baca Copy Share Image
There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
It's hard to think about growing up when your right in the middle of doing it. It's hard to know what you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a dreadful period. We tend to notice those youngsters who misbehave and call attention to themselves, but there are others,… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
although it has been said that idle hands are the devil's workshop, when it comes to teenagers, both idle and active hands… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
Growing up is hard when everyone is trying to bring you down. Growing up is hard with all the drama's around. Growing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“All my life I've felt like there was something wrong with me. Something missing or damaged." "Every teenager in the world feels… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
“The drinking, the skipping school – all of it – was about regaining some sort of control. That night I felt there… — Sasha Martin Copy Share Image
It turned out to be impossible for me to 'run away' in the sense other American teenagers did. Any movement at all… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
Sending grown-ups up the wall is one of the things adolescence is all about. A few years ago it was done with… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity.… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
I had been afraid of breast cancer, as I suspect most women are, from the time I hit adolescence. At that age,… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I do not agree with this century's fashion of running down the human species as a failed try, a doomed sport. At… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“Adolescence is not a period of being “crazy” or “immature.” It is an essential time of emotional intensity, social engagement, and creativity.” — Daniel J. Siegel Copy Share Image
My adolescence progressed normally: enough misery to keep the death wish my usual state, an occasional high to keep me from actually… — Faye Moskowitz Copy Share Image
Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are… — Edgar Friedenberg Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a tough time for parent and child alike. It is a time between: between childhood and maturity, between parental protection… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say I'm stuck in my adolescence, but I think, like a lot of people, I carry my teen years with… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
I have tried to answer the question which sent me to Samoa: Are the disturbances which vex our adolescents due to the… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“If, as PJ O'Rourke ones quipped, giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys,… — Mark Hemingway Copy Share Image
It's no surprise to me that intellectuals commit suicide, go mad or die from drink. We feel things more than other people.… — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
“Adolescence impelled her eyes to stay at an even keel, to deal with the ground before flickering to the heavens. Night became… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
