Adolescence Quote by Anthony Daniels

Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence. Children grow up very fast…

— Theodore Dalrymple

Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence. Children grow up very fast…

— Theodore Dalrymple

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to…

— Thomas Szasz

We have the most prolonged adolescence in the history of mankind. There is no other society that requires so many years to pass before…

— Ralph Nader

Adolescence has been recognised as a stage of human development since medieval times--long, long before the industrial revolution--and, as it is now, has long…

— Terri E Apter

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

— Jane Ridley

Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is…

— Cesare Pavese

Some people mature too fast, some too slow. Some never had a childhood, some never grow.

— Anonymous

Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.

— Bill Watterson

Childhood is not merely basic training for utilitarian adulthood. It should have some claims upon our mercy, not for its future value to the…

— Jonathan Kozol

“In theory, and in law, childhood and adolescence last up until the age of eighteen. I don't think that's true; lots of us live…

— Albert Espinosa

There've always been people in the borderland between childhood and adulthood. That state is not a matter of chronological age. It's a matter of…

— Will Shetterly