Adolescence Quotes · Page 7

During adolescence, friends bring an intimate quality of support that can't be provided by any adult.

— Sara Shandler

Adolescence in our culture for a young woman, for a girl, is a hard road.

— Rodney Crowell

I started on 'Neighbours' when I was 14. It's crazy to think now that I had such a bizarre adolescence.

— Eliza Taylor

“The adult chops down his childhood to help his grown-up self. The unsentimentality is appealing, don't you think?”

— Salman Rushdie

When children reach the age of sixteen, they discover the meaning of life: car keys.

— Erma Bombeck

Youth asks no greater privilege than to fight its own battles. It is mistaken kindness to shield - it weakens one in…

— Myrtle Reed

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

“Growing up means situations and people change, problems are bigger, feelings are deeper and the hurt devastating.”

— Bailey

When you have little girls, you're the coolest person in the world. I know at some point that's going to end; in…

— Jerry O'Connell

“Contemplating the adolescence through which we scorned the wrong, some of us must wish … that we could be born old, and…

— Channing Pollock

“But I could not fully admit it, even then. The way Suzanne's face looked as she watched him - I wanted to…

— Emma Cline

Go to the adolescent who are smothered in family-- Oh how hideous it is To see three generations of one house gathered…

— Ezra Pound

It's about transitioning from adolescence, when you live together with parents and see each other every day, to the era when you…

— K. M. Soehnlein

“Partly James was jealous because he was a virgin, but mostly it just felt really weird being in a room with two…

— Robert Muchamore

Adolescence and early youth...the fires are burning fastest, right? And your energy level is highest. It demands...and rock is screaming type music.

— Jim Morrison

If you have older children who avoid you like the plague, buy yourself some expensive bath salts, run a hot tub, and…

— Teresa Bloomingdale

I think that every child grows up with the ideas that what we are given, is our society. Your education, and your…

— Alice Englert

These principles with due regard to time and place, must, in accordance with Christian prudence, be applied to all schools, particularly in…

— Pope Pius XI

The years between thirty-five and sixty-five revolve before the passive mind as one unexplained, confusing merry-go-round. True, they are a merry-go-round of…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“For the first time in my life, I actually wished that everyone was the same. And I despised myself for my "differentness"…

— Laura Hanna

In 1992 I was doing one of my first ever tours and I was in Heathrow airport and I saw these middle-aged…

— Moby

“For that moment at least they seemed to give up external plans, theories, and codes, even the inescapable romantic curiosity about one…

— Thomas Pynchon

I have dwelt ever in realms apart from the visible world; spending my youth and adolescence in ancient and little-known books, and…

— Anonymous

Growing up is something that you do your whole life. I want to always feel that I can be a kid if…

— Robert Downey, Jr

I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.

— Stanislav Grof

I'm sort of stuck in adolescence in many ways, like most artists, and march to my own beat.

— Mary Gauthier

“I want to keep all of me, and I don't think you get to do that. I think becoming an adult means…

— Katie Kennedy

I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family.

— Randy Quaid

Adolescence is a difficult time at the best of times, and especially in a smaller town - there's all these different energies…

— William Kircher

You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.

— Queen Latifah

“Grown-ups are always more fascinated by what you might become then what you are.”

— Jim Lynch

Teenagers complain there's nothing to do, then stay out all night doing it.

— Bob Phillips

To grow up is to wonder about things; to be grown up is to slowly forget the things you wondered about as…

— Henning Mankell

I spent most of my adolescence feeling awkward but never once mentioned it.

— Pamela Druckerman

I think so much of adolescence is about finding your tribe, and what kids today have that we did not have is…

— Peter Paige

The conflict between the need to belong to a group and the need to be seen as unique and individual is the…

— Jeanne Elium

“You know you’re a real grown-up when nothing but Oreos is black and white.”

— Maria Murnane

I spent my whole adolescence, when you just want to be accepted, looking much younger than everyone else.

— Jenna Fischer

I don't believe in professional dissidents. I think it's just a phase, like adolescence.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

I did not have the moments of so-called normal people during adolescence, like going out with friends, enjoying good times.

— Kylian Mbappe