Adolescence Quotes · Page 9

Our teen-agers withdrew to their bedrooms on their thirteenth birthday and didn't show themselves to us again until it was time to…

— Erma Bombeck

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

— John Ciardi

A mother can legitimately be said to 'have a baby' - but in a civilization such as ours, she can never claim…

— Mary Blakely

You can certainly extend your adolescence. There's people that are very good at extending it indefinitely.

— Ben Mendelsohn

I think I've been lucky enough to have had an extended adolescence. I'm a lot like I was when I was 15.

— Ariel Pink

Growing up crowds your mind with new thoughts and new feelings so that you forget how you used to think and feel.

— Maureen Daly

True love comes along after adolescence, when we have learned not to cry for nothing.

— Sophia Loren

“We don’t do all our growing up between birth and adolescence or even our twenties. If we’re fortunate, we never stop. *”

— Diane Guerrero

Ironically, when I hit adolescence, I was approached about modeling and acting all the time. And, for five years, I said, "No,…

— Evangeline Lilly

Adolescence was only recognised as a life stage in the early 20th century, when psychologists got down to work. Today's generational battle…

— Jane Ridley

Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress…

— Nancy Gibbs

Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your…

— Harold Bloom

Adolescents are attracted to tragic heroes. That's why rock stars dress like homeless people. Adolescence is a fall. It's when every child…

— Heather O'Neill

“Wasn’t that the definition of adulthood? That you wanted one thing, but did another because you knew what was right and good,…

— Orson Scott Card

With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress,…

— Margaret Mead

My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because…

— James Joyce

Parents are never forgiven for not giving just the right response at the appropriate moment. Or, rather, there are particular times in…

— Terri E Apter

“Peter,' she asked, trying to speak firmly, 'what are your exact feelings for me?' Those of a devoted son, Wendy.' I thought…

— J.M. Barrie

I did not write it [Coming of Age in Samoa] as a popular book, but only with the hope that it would…

— Margaret Mead

When I call to mind my earliest impressions, I wonder whether the process ordinarily referred to as growing up is not actually…

— Aldo Leopold

Most adults would not dream of belittling, humiliating, or bullying (verbally or physically) another adult. But many of the same adults think…

— Laurence Steinberg

One has to bear in mind that during my childhood and adolescence, I suffered the repression of the Somoza dictatorship in every…

— Daniel Ortega

I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.…

— Tahereh Mafi

Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy. . . . I have often said to parents, "If it isn't illegal,…

— Virginia Satir

By the time I was in my early teens, we were able to move into a much more middle-class area. I had…

— George Michael

“Stop looking at what everyone else has! You have to figure out who you are before you can be anyone!”

— Setona Mizushiro

Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.

— Anonymous

Although I was well past my teenage troubles, our music was specifically designed to lubricate the passage from adolescence to adulthood.

— Pete Townshend

Adolescence is a stressful time for girls because of the momentous physical and physiological changes that take place.

— Mazher

I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.

— Brooke Shields

What adolescence is about is by trial and error, honing a frontal cortex that is going to be more optimal by the…

— Robert Sapolsky

Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.

— Louise J. Kaplan

Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Surprise! Adolescence is not an exciting adventure. It's actually very boring and lonelier than you could ever imagine.”

— Frank Warren

Adolescence has such a negative connotation and it shouldn't. It's experimentation, it's being unsure, no preconceived notions.

— Mary Tyler Moore

Maturity is when your world opens up and you realize that you are not the center of it.

— M.J. Croan

The mentality of an army on the march is merely so much delayed adolescence; it remains persistently, incorrigibly and notoriously infantile.

— Albert J. Nock

The idols of one's adolescence tend to endure - you never forget how you worshipped them.

— Molly Ivins

I blacked out my childhood after a string of traumatic events in my late adolescence.

— Hunx

I had low blood sugar, a chemical imbalance, plus the normal nervous breakdown everyone goes through from adolescence to adulthood.

— Mel Brooks