Adolescence Quotes · Page 8

I was always the young guy. And when you're successful when you're young, it leads to an arrested adolescence or something, y'know.

— Jim Carroll

I think if I would have been sufficiently sure of myself I would have transitioned in my adolescence. In school I trusted…

— Lux Pascal

The goal is not to turn kids into your kind of adult, but rather better adults than you have been.

— Adora Svitak

Growing up means nothing, it just means your closer to your death. Now what you learn while growing up, makes that process…

— Alex Cole

So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition.

— Theodore Roethke

Youth: Time spent flip flopping between being lonely and wanting to be left alone.

— Rock Cowles

Until adolescence I thought I had the best mother in the world. Such a graceful mother. I had this fantasy that I…

— Carrie Fisher

I'm pretty squeaky clean. No big tragedies in my childhood or adolescence or adulthood. I've had a very easygoing, simple life.

— Vera Farmiga

We don't want to act like adults. Anybody who can stay in a state of adolescence will be much better off later…

— Tom DeLonge

“What season?” I asked. “A delayed adolescence, I guess. When I get up in the morning and see my face in the…

— Haruki Murakami

“We push off the ground and break into a run. It is not a race, it’s just running. All we need to…

— Sohn Won-Pyung

She knew the intensity of adolescence, and knew no cure for it except growing up. And then one has age and experience,…

— Sara Paretsky

At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid,…

— Jules Feiffer

I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay…

— Harold Brodkey

The day you realize you're a grownup is the day you realize that you have to do something. When we're kids, we…

— Barbara Boxer

“There’s a huge difference between being childlike and being childish. When we embrace joy and look at the world with fresh eyes…

— Seth Godin

Personally I feel that real rock 'n' roll may be on the way out, just like adolescence as a relatively innocent transitional…

— Lester Bangs

“Some of being an adult, though, is about protecting and preserving what we discover to be the best parts of ourselves, and…

— Shauna Niequist

There's only one thing harder than living in a home with an adolescent - and that's being an adolescent. The moodiness, the…

— Jeffrey Kluger

“Hazel understood. Being grown up meant doing what grown-ups wanted you to do. it meant sacrificing your imagination for rules. It meant…

— Anne Ursu

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

“Cut privet still smells of sour apples, as it did when I was sixteen; but this is a rare, lingering exception. At…

— Julian Barnes

“I couldn't understand how boldness and sorrow, how you're so hard and do you really care for me? could be so thoroughly…

— André Aciman

“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

The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage…

— Amity Shlaes

“You know, even grown-up people cannot do what they want most" "Then why grow up?”

— Elizabeth Bowen

Adolescence is a twentieth-century invention most parents approach with dread and look back on with the relief of survivors.

— Faye Moskowitz

In adolescence you have to separate yourself and establish your identity. So, being very independent anyway, I took charge.

— George Carlin

I joke sometimes that I live a protracted adolescence, that a part of me will always be twelve years old.

— Jack Driscoll

Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

— G. Stanley Hall

You have to let kids be kids. Robbing them of their childhood and/or adolescence is not fair.

— Sussanne Khan

Our children tremble in their teen-age cribs, whirling off on a thumb or a motorcycle.

— Anne Sexton

Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their…

— Mary Pipher

I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.

— Kate Beckinsale

I remember adolescence, the years of having the impulse control of a mousetrap, of being as private as a safe-deposit box.

— Anna Quindlen

many of us are done with adolescence before we are done with adolescent love.

— Judith Viorst

“Adolescence is the same tragedy being performed again and again. The only things that change are the stage props.”

— Lindsey Leavitt

Perhaps the world progresses not by maturing, but by being in a permanent state of adolescence, of thrilled discovery.

— Julian Barnes

“Whats the point in being grown up when you cant act childish sometimes?”

— Natalie Repinski

Sometimes being an adult means doing the right thing, even if it's not what you want.

— Laurie Halse Anderson