Adolescent Quotes
152 quotes by 141 authors
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To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.
— Dave Barry
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
— Kate Beckinsale
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
— Omar N. Bradley
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It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting these adolescent scenes.
— Diablo Cody
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I see no greatness in my self...I'm a simple-minded, child-like, insipid sort of moronic and kind of akward feeling adolescent.
— Neal Cassady
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Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.
— James Broughton
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Life is expressed in a perpetual sequence of changes. The birth of the child is the death of the baby, just as the birth of…
— Arnaud Desjardins
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We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage.
— Charles Krauthammer
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One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the fates they deserve.
— Nicholas Rescher
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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
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At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I do turn down things that I feel aren't right for me, like when it's some kind of adolescent thing that might typecast me, but…
— Selma Blair
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As an adolescent, Spider-Man was what got me through tough times in terms of being a skinny kid.
— Andrew Garfield
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That adolescent me, the girl who was, as I remember her, insecure, unsure, dreaming, yearning, longing, that girl who was hard on herself, who was…
— Norma Fox Mazer
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I read The NAMBLA Bulletin fairly regularly and I think it is one of the most intelligent discussions of sexuality I've ever found...I would have…
— Samuel R. Delany
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Star Wars is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters is obscurist drivel; ‘Star Trek’ can turn your brains into puree of bat guano; and the greatest science…
— Harlan Ellison
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I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I was once a…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because all together they…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure.
— Tim Cahill
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I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn't skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a…
— Neil Peart
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