Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
From adolescence to death there is something very personal about being a Negro in America. — Jay Saunders Redding Copy Share Image
So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
F. Scott Fitzgerald thought that prolonging his adolescence would protect his talent. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Adolescence is that time in your life when you discover your ability to be depressed. — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
The main thing that I want to say is that I don't think women are at their most beautiful in their adolescence… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
I've gone through my adolescence on TV so it's pretty cringey when I look back on some pictures and scenes, but that's… — Kelvin Fletcher Copy Share Image
Adolescence is the most Technicolor time in our lives. It's the time when adulthood is new and we care most about it.… — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
To me Donnie Darko was about adolescence. And about how, as soon as you start to grow up and you sort of… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
Death during adolescence feels unfair. We're young. We're invincible. Death is supposed to come with old age. When death breaks into our… — Sara Shandler Copy Share Image
I was always storytelling, since I was a child. I remember myself at 10 years old telling stories to my sisters and… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
I grew up in Boston, and in my adolescence your parents are trying to send you to like 'better' schools and a… — Ayo Edebiri Copy Share Image
I had a stammer through adolescence. Any fun I'd had performing in school plays disappeared and only came back at 18, when… — Charles Dance Copy Share Image
“I can still remember what I was like when I was sixteen. It was hell to be that excited. Then as now,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The only lie I really remember from my adolescence was when I was in sixth grade and I was dropped off with… — Dan Byrd Copy Share Image
Most literature on the culture of adolescence focuses on peer pressure as a negative force. Warnings about the "wrong crowd" read like… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
“At seventeen, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind;… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
From the writing stage, I had envisioned a film that would be bright and light, even if the movie addresses adolescent unrest… — Alante Kavaite Copy Share Image
One of the tragedies of our day is that too many boys are growing up without guidance of a father, or another… — Dennis Rainey Copy Share Image
“Adolescence--the time when teens begin to do things adults do--now happens later. Thirteen-year-olds--and even 18-year-olds-- are less likely to act like adults… — Jean M. Twenge Copy Share Image
The upheavals of adolescence silenced 'A Christmas Carol' for a few years. I became a firebrand atheist. Christmas - humbug! Too commercial!… — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
Adolescents may be, almost simultaneously, overconfident and riddled with fear. They are afraid of their overpowering feelings, oflosing control, of helplessness, of… — Stella Chess Copy Share Image
“There is so much woman in many a girl and too much boy in many a man.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“I guess I could say that I have lived my life in a perpetual flinch.” — Rakesh Satayal Copy Share Image
