Adolescence Quotes
228 quotes by 211 authors
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The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or…
— J. G. Ballard
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What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.
— Martha Beck
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
— Kate Beckinsale
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Apart from a period of crisis during my adolescence, when my voice was changing and I could not tame it - it was like a…
— Andrea Bocelli
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I had been afraid of breast cancer, as I suspect most women are, from the time I hit adolescence. At that age, when our emerging…
— Geraldine Brooks
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Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.
— Carol Burnett
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Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.
— Coco Chanel
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You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
— John Ciardi
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Perhaps it is better in this present world of ours that a revolutionary idea or invention instead of being helped and patted be hampered and…
— Nikola Tesla
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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, confused, insecure and…
— Jules Feiffer
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The meaningful role of the father of the bride was played out long before the church music began. It stretched across those years of infancy…
— Tom Brokaw
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Radio wasn't outside our lives. It coincided with and helped to shape our childhood and adolescence. As we slogged toward maturity, it also grew up…
— Vincent Canby
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We have the most prolonged adolescence in the history of mankind. There is no other society that requires so many years to pass before people…
— Ralph Nader
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Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery.
— Ambrose Bierce
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What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.
— Georges Bernanos
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Fitzgerald never got rid of anything; the ghosts of his adolescence, the failures of his youth, the doubts of his maturity plagued him to the…
— John Aldridge
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She knew the intensity of adolescence, and knew no cure for it except growing up. And then one has age and experience, and mourns the…
— Sara Paretsky
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Everybody who made it through adolescence is a hero.
— Joss Whedon
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In adolescence, it's 'How do I fit in?' In your 20s, 'What do I want to do?' Your 30s, 'Is this what I'm meant to…
— Chris Pine
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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
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