Adolescence Quotes

228 Adolescence quotes by 208 unique authors

Adolescence is not only an important period in life, but that it is the only period where one may speak of life in the full… — Michel Houellebecq
One thing is certain: for many of those who came back from WWII, the music of Frank Sinatra was no consolation for their losses. Some… — Pete Hamill
Adolescence as the time when an individual ‘recapitulates’ the savage stage of the race’s past. — G. Stanley Hall
In no order of things is adolescence the time of the simple life. — Janet Erskine Stuart
We don't want to act like adults. Anybody who can stay in a state of adolescence will be much better off later on. Look at… — Tom DeLonge
With tremendous clarity and wisdom, Daniel Tomasulo has crafted a memoir at once heartbreaking and uplifting. Layers of time and memory—childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, middle… — Dani Shapiro
These principles with due regard to time and place, must, in accordance with Christian prudence, be applied to all schools, particularly in the most delicate… — Pope Pius XI
Most literature on the culture of adolescence focuses on peer pressure as a negative force. Warnings about the "wrong crowd" read like tornado alerts in… — Mary Blakely
I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay of the odds… — Harold Brodkey
I believe in humanity. We are an incredible species. We're still just a child creature, we're still being nasty to each other. And all children… — Gene Roddenberry
Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards… — Eric Hoffer
Adolescence is that time when I think, it can be- it's the cruelest place on Earth. It can really be heartless. — Tori Amos
I hit adolescence only to discover my autobiography had already been written; plagiarized, in fact, by a man named J.D. Salinger who, in appropriating to… — Stephen Metcalf
Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence. — Alice Thomas Ellis
Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get… — Louise J. Kaplan
Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony. — Andy Hargreaves
The experience of being in between-between the time we leave home and arrive at our destination; between the time we leave adolescence and arrive at… — Paul Tournier
One of the traps of adolescence is the sort of paranoid resentment that somehow you're never going to match up and that everybody else's life… — Stephen Fry
Everyone who deals with teens seems to agree that the most important and toughest job is staying in connection and conversation ... not delivering a… — Ellen Goodman
Thank God I had two parents who loved me enough to stay on my case. — Shaquille O'Neal
I would dye my hair every week. I wanted to be a really goth teenager. — Sarah Michelle Gellar
One doesn't remain a teenager forever. — Mariah Carey
All any grownup expects of an adolescent is that he act like an adult and be satisfied to be treated like a child. — John Grant
When you have three teenagers, it gives a whole new meaning to "homeland security." — Bruce Springsteen
Rebelliousness really is the province of young people-that kind of iconoclasm. — Steve Martin

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