Adolescent Quotes

152 quotes by 141 authors

To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent. — Dave Barry
I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls. — Kate Beckinsale
With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents. — Omar N. Bradley
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
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
Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness. — James Broughton
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
We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage. — Charles Krauthammer
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
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
At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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
As an adolescent, Spider-Man was what got me through tough times in terms of being a skinny kid. — Andrew Garfield
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
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
Star Wars is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters is obscurist drivel; â€˜Star Trekâ€™ can turn your brains into puree of bat guano; and the greatest science… — Harlan Ellison
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
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
I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure. — Tim Cahill
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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