Adolescence Quotes
228 Adolescence quotes by 208 unique authors
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Adolescence is a plague on the senses.
— Henry Rollins
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Having children truly ends adolescence. We are all either parents or children: responsibility-takers or those who demand from others.
— Ben Shapiro
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Being someone who had had a very difficult childhood, a very difficult adolescence - it had to do with not quite poverty, but close. It…
— Sherwin B. Nuland
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Stages of life are artifacts. Adolescence is a useful contrivance, midlife is a moving target, senior citizens are an interest group, and tweenhood is just…
— Jill Lepore
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College campuses are a focus of prevention efforts for meningococcal disease because of the increased incidence of the disease during adolescence and young adulthood, as…
— Erik Paulsen
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In my mid-adolescence, my friend Terry Martin and I became obsessed with William F. Buckley. This makes more sense when you realize that we were…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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Adolescence, that swampy zone between safety and power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense and mercy, not guns and a badge.
— Nancy Gibbs
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I lived through the Fifties in the Midwest when everything that was happening - the repression of homosexuality, for instance, the demonization of the Left,…
— Edmund White
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By the time I turned 12, I was a 5-foot 10-inch social disaster. Towering over my friends was the bane of my adolescence.
— Sheri L. Dew
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Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives, through adolescence, and while they are trying to work out who they are…
— Deborah Bull
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Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my…
— Harry Mathews
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It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood.
— Chris Van Hollen
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Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolescence.
— Carrie Fisher
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Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.
— Harlan Coben
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A large part of my adolescence was spent doing my very best to draw attention to myself.
— Rufus Sewell
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Dogs are a really amazing eye opener for us humans because their lives are compressed into such a short period, so we can see them…
— John Grogan
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The thing about adolescence is that you are emerging from a state of obscurity. You are coming out into the world from your family. Your…
— Meg Rosoff
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Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.
— Terri Apter
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In a world of pollution, profanity, adolescence, zits, broccoli, racism, ozone depletion, sexism, stupid guys and weirdos, why the hell do people still tell me…
— Ana Chable
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Youth: Time spent flip flopping between being lonely and wanting to be left alone.
— Rock Cowles
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Premature burial works just fine as a cure for adolescence.
— Unknown Author
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The conflict between the need to belong to a group and the need to be seen as unique and individual is the dominant struggle of…
— Unknown Author
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Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging…
— Ron Taffel
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Blacks have been in the position of having to rebel since day one. It's only natural. Black people are the lowest on the totem pole.…
— Laurence Fishburne
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Ironically, when I hit adolescence, I was approached about modeling and acting all the time. And, for five years, I said, 'No, I'm not interested.…
— Evangeline Lilly
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