When a child becomes an adult . . . the elders are fearful. And for good reason . . . not we… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
There have been times in my adolescence where I gave up. I was like, 'I'm just never going to be pretty. I'm… — Ronda Rousey Copy Share Image
Our hypothetical rich client might even have ordered a Pommard, because it was listed at a higher price...He would have never learned… — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
“...the salient feature of the absurd age I was at--an age which for all its alleged awkwardness, is prodigiously rich-- is that… — proust Copy Share Image
“We're kicking our way into adolescence from the minute we're born. Gradually you form your own ideas of how you should lead… — Carlos Baker Copy Share Image
Adolescent girls were fighting a mother's interference because they wanted her to acknowledge their independence. Whatever resentment they had was not towards… — Terri E Apter Copy Share Image
The hardest thing about adolescence is that everything seems too big. There's no way to get context or perspective, … Pain and… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
“Camus-boy, you're always going to be the same you, just older. It's not like there's a moment when you wake up and… — Hannah Moskowitz Copy Share Image
“We discard the elderly, but the elderly used to discard the elderly. Those old people we tease are just listening to our… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
As Elders, we are fully committed to the principle that all human beings are of equal worth. You will see that we… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
The first idea of Young and Beautiful was to have a young boy and to explore the sexuality of boys. But, I… — Francois Ozon Copy Share Image
An adolescent does not rebel against her parents. She rebels against their power. If parents would rely less on power and more… — Thomas Gordon Copy Share Image
I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It's embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
“Peter never wore underwear, Connie had complained, and the fact grew in my mind, making me nauseous in a not unpleasant way.… — Emma Cline Copy Share Image
To most of us, adulthood means being able to earn a living, possess a home, get married and rear children, and this… — Jane Ridley Copy Share Image
“So, girl, you learn to deal with what gets handed down t’you. To grow up means you be honest with y’self. Face… — Marilyn Brant Copy Share Image
Grownups! Everyone remembers them. How strange and even sad it is that we never became what they were: beings noble, infallible, and… — Elizabeth Enright Copy Share Image
Being a father can unreason your worldview, or at least make it very flexible, and that can create all sorts of fun… — Clyde Edgerton Copy Share Image
The purpose of adolescence is to revise the past, not to obliterate it. . . . Adolescence entails the deployment of family… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Fitzgerald never got rid of anything; the ghosts of his adolescence, the failures of his youth, the doubts of his maturity plagued… — John Aldridge Copy Share Image
Something went klunk. Like a nickel dropping in a soda machine. One of those small insights that explains everything. This was puberty… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
Up until the age of 13, girls are confident, and they feel like they can conquer the world. Then adolescence sets in,… — Joanna Coles Copy Share Image
I think that every child grows up with the ideas that what we our given, is our society. Your education, and your… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be grown up. When I was little I couldn’t wait to be a teenager and go to high… — Elizabeth Scott Copy Share Image
It is an odd fact that what we now know of the mental and emotional life of infants surpasses what we comprehend… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
I intentionally leave adults out in my stories, not to say that they're not in charge or that they don't care, or… — Celine Sciamma Copy Share Image
Now that adolescence is accessible to the multitude and not restricted to gentlemen and lords, many adults are taking alarm at what… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think Los Angeles certainly grew out and grew up, but I don't think it matured. It lost the appeal and the… — Robert Towne Copy Share Image
Something that had an enormous influence over my relationship with language was my stammer. I had a really bad stammer in my… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
“Later, at the sink in our van, Mama rinsed the blue stain and the odd spiders, caterpillars, and stems from the bucket.… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“Why can’t you just be yourself?” Stella asked once. “Maybe I don’t know who that is,” her daughter shot back. And Stella… — Brit Bennett Copy Share Image
I grew up in a largely black community during the '70s and '80s that scoffed at 'white' music. That music - folk,… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a relatively recent thing in human history -- a period of years between the constraints of childhood and the responsibilities… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“It is in adolescence that most of us grasp that life--our own life--is a problem to be solved, that a set of… — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
Many children grow through adolescence with no ripples whatever and land smoothly and predictably in the adult world with both feet on… — Stella Chess Copy Share Image
Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Adulthood brings with it the pernicious illusion of control, and perhaps even depends on it. I mean that mirage of dominion over… — Juan Gabriel Vásquez Copy Share Image
“They didn't have very far to fall - I knew just being a girl in the world handicapped your ability to believe… — Emma Cline Copy Share Image
“Growing up means learning what life is. When you're little, you have a set of ideals, standards, criteria, plans, outlooks, and you… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
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