I think that it's hard enough being an adolescent and wanting so much to fit in with your peers, your schoolmates, and… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings.… — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
“the knowledge, tastes, and social accomplishments of 13-year-olds are often the same as those of 28-year-olds. Adolescents are precociously adult; adults are… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes… — James S. Coleman Copy Share Image
I always find it actually funny that the analysis is that the characters I play in comedies are the manchild, the adolescent,… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
I've been wrestling with Kafka since I was an adolescent. I think he's a great aphorist, a great letter writer, a great… — John Banville Copy Share Image
American pop culture is perpetually in adolescent mode. The notions of what it takes to be a man, as depicted in pop… — Alex Tizon Copy Share Image
Preoccupied with her self, the adolescent sees enormous changes, whereas the parent sees the child she knew all along. For the parent,… — Terri E Apter Copy Share Image
To love! To surrender absolutely, to prostrate oneself before the divine image, to die a thousand imaginary deaths, to annihilate every trace… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Post-adolescent Expert Syndrome The tendency of young people around the age of eighteen, males especially, to become altruistic experts on everything, a… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Why do people stop developing, or, like they stop the way you can rate their, psychologically, their development? Where they stop, and… — Edie Sedgwick Copy Share Image
I was fortunate to live for 3 years in another country, and although we lived in an American compound, still as a… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I do turn down things that I feel aren't right for me, like when it's some kind of adolescent thing that might… — Selma Blair Copy Share Image
I'm less self-consumed, less narcissistic, I'm more selfless, more considerate. I've just grown up. It's a slow growth, because I was in… — James Righton Copy Share Image
In India, while there are some initiatives working with and for adolescent girls, there are too few state sponsored programmes for adolescent… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
I always had that adolescent notion that I had to get out of Texas. But I'm really glad I grew up there.… — Sarah Shahi Copy Share Image
I was baptized as an infant. I was confirmed as an adolescent; I was active in my church's youth group and in… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The need to express one's self in writing springs from a maladjustment of life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
“And accordingly, the adolescent sensibility is one that prevails in much of the art world, where the most adolescent of goals, transgression,… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
“It’s too easy to follow bad but attractive leaders, embrace pleasurable but destructive habits, ignore looming disaster because maybe it won’t happen… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
Adults forget the depths of languor into which the adolescent mind decends with ease. They are prone to undervalue the mental growth… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He considered himself, and the way he moved in reaction, like a pinball, from one thing to the next, as he was… — Laleh Khadivi Copy Share Image
For millions of girls around the world, motherhood comes too early. Those who bear children as adolescents suffer higher maternal mortality and… — Esther Duflo Copy Share Image
I've been doing a lot of work on female rights, especially adolescent rights. I've been to a lot of schools where the… — Priyanka Chopra Copy Share Image
“Neuroscience research tells us that the adolescent brain is primed for the acquisition of new skills. Teens are driven to seek out… — Richard Guare Copy Share Image
The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed. It is… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Young women, adolescent girls, are more subject to infection, sometimes at a rate of six times that of boys. That tells you… — Stephen Lewis Copy Share Image
I think that is a universal adolescent feeling, trying to find your place. The adolescent who is perfectly adjusted to his environment,… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
Even when I became the typical shy adolescent, I never minded performing. I felt there was a kind of safety, a protection… — Hayley Mills Copy Share Image
“Some old-school Madonna and Beyoncé and everyone in the room went from being eighteen-year-olds to being twelve-year-olds to seven-year-olds and back again,… — Laleh Khadivi Copy Share Image
