Adolescence Quotes

228 Adolescence quotes by 208 unique authors

Something dramatic happens to girls in early adolescence. Just as planes and ships disappear mysteriously into the Bermuda Triangle, so do the selves of girls… — Mary Pipher
Teenagers are my life and my triumph. I'd be nowhere without them. — Elvis Presley
I was... the loser of my class. I had absolutely no friends. — Neve Campbell
Adolescence is like cactus. — Anais Nin
The needs of children during adolescence are particular and acute. They need an opportunity to develop a sense of identity and to maintain the sense… — Elliot W. Eisner
If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you. — Toni Morrison
I remember adolescence, the years of having the impulse control of a mousetrap, of being as private as a safe-deposit box. — Anna Quindlen
When I write for teens, I feel I can cut through everything and get to the bare bones. I can get straight into the emotional… — Alice Hoffman
Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy. — Virginia Satir
The teenagers aren't all bad. I love 'em if nobody else does. There ain't nothing wrong with young people. Jus' quit lyin' to 'em. — Moms Mabley
My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London. — Peter Shaffer
I do not agree with this century's fashion of running down the human species as a failed try, a doomed sport. At our worst, we… — Lewis Thomas
Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being… — C.S. Lewis
Normal men retain their childish longing for a woman to mother them. At adolescence a new desire is added. They want a girl to allure… — William Moulton Marston
I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than… — Maya Lin
No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad… — Eddie Vedder
I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity. — Tom Lehrer
Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession. — G. Stanley Hall
Sex begins before adolescence, and survives sterility; it is indeed coeval with our lives, although at the mating age its effects are more obvious to… — E. M. Forster
Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines. — Andre Gide
Adolescence can be a time of turmoil and turbulence, of stress and storm. Rebellion against authority and against convention is to be expected and tolerated… — Haim Ginott
The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle. — Plutarch
Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory… — Cyril Connolly
Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults. — Julian Barnes
One thing I feel is this: that a great deal of poetry is the product of adolescence-or of an emotionally adolescent frame of mind: and… — James Agee

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