Adolescence Quotes

228 quotes by 211 authors

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
What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence. — Martha Beck
I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult. — Kate Beckinsale
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
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
Adolescence is just one big walking pimple. — Carol Burnett
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
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. — John Ciardi
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
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
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
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
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
Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery. — Ambrose Bierce
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
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
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
Everybody who made it through adolescence is a hero. — Joss Whedon
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
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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