I remember I thought I should become a doctor, even though I had no talent for science whatsoever. Then of course, until… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Butterfield 8, with its call-girl heroine working her way down the alphabet of men from Amherst to Yale, appeared at a very… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
In adolescence I started to find out about Robert Wilson because I saw Lou Reed's "Timerocker" at [the Brooklyn Academy of Music].… — Aaron Brookner 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
When a child becomes an adult . . . the elders are fearful. And for good reason . . . not we… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
“How we diminished her and in turn ourselves. Turned parts of her body into heavy burdens to carry. Watching. Tittering (we no… — Rion Amilcar Scott Copy Share Image
“The adventures of adolescence had taught Piet Barol that he was extremely attractive to most women and to many men. He was… — Richard Mason Copy Share Image
In sixth grade, my status as a Boy Scout was not something I went out of my way to share. In fact,… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
It is not simply that these two cities are perched side by side at the edge of the Pacific; it is that… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Adolescence was invented in the 19th century to enable middle-class families to keep their children out of sweatshops. But it has degenerated… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
“When I was in junior high, I used to think I would turn out to be one of the guys, and boys… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“Outside the study hall the next fall, the fall of our senior year, the Nabisco plant baked sweet white bread twice a… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
We cannot know the young child's personality by studying his systems of interest, for his attention is as yet too labile, his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“From my window I watched the full moon—a moon that reminded me of Brett—become shadowed, little by little until there was only… — Irene Hunt 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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
“...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
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 purpose of adolescence is to revise the past, not to obliterate it. . . . Adolescence entails the deployment of family… — Louise J. Kaplan 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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
“This was a factory, a sorting house. We were no different from dogs and pigs and cows: all of us were allowed… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
“Of course, all animals have different things to learn while traversing the arc that takes them from sexually immature, vulnerable child to… — Barbara Natterson-Horowitz Copy Share Image
Adolescence has been recognised as a stage of human development since medieval times--long, long before the industrial revolution--and, as it is now,… — Terri E Apter Copy Share Image
Witness the American ideal: the Self-Made Man. But there is no such person. If we can stand on our own two feet,… — Urie Bronfenbrenner 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
“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
“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
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
I was influenced by the Beats because I actually just began to commit adolescence around 1955, when "Howl" and Rebel Without a… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
![“In adolescence I started to find out about Robert Wilson because I saw Lou Reed's "Timerocker" at [the Brooklyn Academy of Music]. I started getting into Jim Jarmusch and knew that my uncle was a friend of his. I pieced together parts of his life in high school and college, which lead me to his…” quote by Aaron Brookner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d47/aaron-brookner-54373_academy_in-adolescence-i-started-to-find-out-abo_2140691.jpg)
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