Adolescence Quotes · Page 8

Just because I do what I do doesn't mean I escaped adolescence, all the bumps and bruises that go along with it.

— Anna Paquin

Adolescence is like having only enough light to see the step directly in front of you.

— Sarah Addison Allen

Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.

— Al Bernstein

In adolescence she thought it was too early to choose, now in youth she was convinced it was too late to change.

— Paulo Coelho

“...at some point we must achieve our identity -we can't be always in adolescence seeking who we are...”

— John Geddes

Children, don't grow up. Our bodies get bigger, and our hearts get torn up.

— Anonymous

L'adolescence est le seul temps o u' l'on ait appris quelque chose. Adolescence is the only time when we can learn something.

— Marcel Proust

I look back at my adolescence, and Im shocked at the things I did that were my idea of adult behavior.

— Katherine Waterston

“The wild girl is with me always; she is my rage and my hunger, and if I live what passes for a…

— Mary Stewart Atwell

At a young age, I was very aware I was different and not perceived in a good way. For a lot of…

— Mustafa Ali

I remember myself at 10 years old telling stories to my sisters and brother. This is something I did through my adolescence…

— Pedro Almodovar

I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific…

— Antonio Gramsci

Adolescence is the period of the decisive last battle fought before maturity. The ego must achieve independence, the old emotional ties must…

— Helene Deutsch

I may not have gone to high school every day, but I spent whole a lot of my adolescence feeling vulnerable and…

— Michael Cera

This is no time to let down our guard on youth violence. Research demonstrates that appropriate interventions made during or prior to…

— David Satcher

“Adolescence is best enjoyed without self-consciousness, but self-consciousness, unfortunately, is its leading symptom. Even when something important happens to you, even when…

— Jonathan Franzen

“For our own part, we learned a great deal about the techniques of love, and because we didn't know the words to…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is beginning writing and…

— Gertrude Stein

Adolescence is the time to enlarge the natural sentiments of pity, friendship, and generosity, the time to develop an understanding of human…

— Louise J. Kaplan

It is not however, adulthood itself, but parenthood that forms the glass shroud of memory. For there is an interesting quirk in…

— Terri E Apter

Adolescents may be, almost simultaneously, overconfident and riddled with fear. They are afraid of their overpowering feelings, oflosing control, of helplessness, of…

— Stella Chess

“I feel strange...I really don't know what I am. In mind I'm almost a woman, in body a young woman. I am…

— Maya Morrow

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

— Alice Englert

“To be adult means, among other things, to see one’s own life in continuous perspective, both in retrospect and in prospect.”

— Samuel H. Barondes

My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.

— Peter Shaffer

Adolescence begins when children stop asking questions-because they know all the answers.

— Evan Esar

Until we fix the deep-rooted problems of economic inequality, we cannot expect young people to experience the best childhood and adolescence.

— Luciana Berger

Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.

— Earl Wilson

Adolescence, the time to live, experience, love before the monotonia of adulthood, so let's live the day without hate or sorrow

— Anonymous

I look back at my adolescence, and I'm shocked at the things I did that were my idea of adult behavior.

— Katherine Waterston

When you're lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.

— Erma Bombeck

If God wanted a world filled with saints, He never would have created adolescence.

— Susan Beth Pfeffer

Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive; imagination, not seldom, is sedate.

— Walter Savage Landor

All any grownup expects of an adolescent is that he act like an adult and be satisfied to be treated like a…

— John Grant

My adolescence was a kind of motorway pile-up. I wish I had known that one day the geek would inherit the Earth.

— Peter Capaldi

Having children truly ends adolescence. We are all either parents or children: responsibility-takers or those who demand from others.

— Ben Shapiro

I wanted to make a body of work that looked at what it felt like to be a boy going through adolescence.

— Polixeni Papapetrou

I think anyone who's ever gone through adolescence and wanted something from their parents knows the basic tenets of a con.

— Matt Bomer

If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you.

— Toni Morrison