Adolescence Quotes

228 Adolescence quotes by 208 unique authors

Perhaps the world progresses not by maturing, but by being in a permanent state of adolescence, of thrilled discovery. — Julian Barnes
The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing… — Arthur Miller
The upheavals of adolescence silenced 'A Christmas Carol' for a few years. I became a firebrand atheist. Christmas - humbug! Too commercial! Then I became… — Whitley Strieber
Someone once remarked that in adolescence pornography is a substitute for sex, whereas in adulthood sex is a substitute for pornography. — Edmund White
Adolescence: The stage between puberty and adultery. — Ambrose Bierce
Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion. — Louise J. Kaplan
The attack on youth is a national pathology, unwarranted by fact, smokescreen for the failure of adulthood and its leadership to confront larger predicaments. No… — Unknown Author
Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural knots… — Edgar Friedenberg
He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence. — Aneurin Bevan
The hardest thing about adolescence is that everything seems too big. There's no way to get context or perspective, ..... Pain and joy without limits.… — Sara Paretsky
Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for. — Rex Stout
I am invariably and have been since adolescence inimical to the Republican mind which shows at the most inflated size the bad qualities of the… — Janet Flanner
Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in… — Joe Baca
For most people, self-awareness and self-pity blossom simultaneously in early adolescence. It's about that time that we start viewing the world as something other than… — Tom Robbins
Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice. — David Elkind
Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born. — G. Stanley Hall
Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood. — Louise J. Kaplan
Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts. — Mary Pipher
I feel that adolescence has served its purpose when a person arrives at adulthood with a strong sense of self-esteem, the ability to relate intimately,… — Virginia Satir
The independence and rebelliousness of our adolescence offer us yet another quality essential to our practice; the insistence that we find out the truth for… — Jack Kornfield
I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies. — Stanislav Grof
I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents. — Suzanne Collins
When we begin to love and respect Great Mother Nature's gift to us of gayness, we'll discover that the bondage of our childhood and adolescence… — Harry Hay
Personally I feel that real rock 'n' roll may be on the way out, just like adolescence as a relatively innocent transitional period is on… — Lester Bangs
Without beauty a girl is unhappy because she has missed her chance to be loved. People do not jeer at her, they are not cruel… — Michel Houellebecq

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