“There is so much woman in many a girl and too much boy in many a man.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Thank God I had two parents who loved me enough to stay on my case. — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
When you grow up around sadness, it affects the way you see the world. — Sofia Helin Copy Share Image
He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence. — Aneurin Bevan Copy Share Image
In no order of things is adolescence the time of the simple life. — Janet Erskine Stuart Copy Share Image
I started on 'Neighbours' when I was 14. It's crazy to think now that I had such a bizarre adolescence. — Eliza Taylor Copy Share Image
Adolescence in our culture for a young woman, for a girl, is a hard road. — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
During adolescence, friends bring an intimate quality of support that can't be provided by any adult. — Sara Shandler Copy Share Image
“Every child makes its peace with abandonment. That's called growing up.” — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Skateboarding is forever, and things like college and girls only ruin an endlessly savored adolescence. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
God's way of making separation with children easier was to invent adolescence. — Mark Patinkin Copy Share Image
I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies. — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
“Growing up means situations and people change, problems are bigger, feelings are deeper and the hurt devastating.” — Bailey Copy Share Image
“Lying half-asleep in his embrace, I looked up and saw on his face the same expression I saw on countless lonely faces… — Kien Nguyen Copy Share Image
I think most of my childhood, adolescence, and teenage years, I was struggling to feel validated - which led to a lot… — Sobhita Dhulipala Copy Share Image
In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“For a terrible time of life a teen-ager deceives himself; he believes he can trick the world. He believes he is invulnerable.… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Today I discovered two kinds of people who go to high school: those who wear new clothes to show off on the… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
The secret to adulthood is that 99% of the time, you actually know the right thing to do. Adults make it hard… — Jason Kander Copy Share Image
After puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious… Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
In order to obey God, one must receive his commands. How did it happen that I received them in adolescence, while I… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“Yet GenX'er teens didn't slow down--they were just as likely to drive, drink alcohol, and date as their Boomer peers and more… — Jean M. Twenge Copy Share Image
“Cut privet still smells of sour apples, as it did when I was sixteen; but this is a rare, lingering exception. At… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I have been only the humblest jugglers-with-facts; and that, in a country where the truth is what it is instructed to be,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Once a child enters adolescence, it may become increasingly difficult to raise these issues. Because adolescence is a time of rebellion—of self-definition,… — Jonathan Berent Copy Share Image
I think the category of perpetual adolescence, it's a new thing, and it's a dangerous thing. Adolescence is a pretty glorious concept.… — Benjamin E. Sasse Copy Share Image
We fall in love or stay in love with people who are unsuitable or who no longer love us and, conversely, we… — François Lelord Copy Share Image
When we begin to love and respect Great Mother Nature's gift to us of gayness, we'll discover that the bondage of our… — Harry Hay Copy Share Image
I was not popular in school, and I was definitely not a ladies' man. And I had a very painful adolescence, because… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Adolescence in my growing up period was truly "Happy Days," the title of a TV show connotating the quality of this life… — Virgil Miller Newton Copy Share Image
Youth asks no greater privilege than to fight its own battles. It is mistaken kindness to shield - it weakens one in… — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
When children reach the age of sixteen, they discover the meaning of life: car keys. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image