Adolescent Quotes

152 quotes by 136 authors

I must bridge the gap between adolescent glitter and mature glow. — Sylvia Plath
In America today, the percentage of children and adolescents who are defined as overweight is more than double what it was in the early 1970s. — Lois Capps
The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not. — Louise J. Kaplan
I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents. — Suzanne Collins
Let go of the things you don't love about your childhood, and keep the things you love. Let go of the things you don't love… — Rhonda Byrne
Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, doubtless two of the most exquisitely adolescent of fictions. — Nancy Mairs
If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge. — James S. Coleman
Why do people stop developing, or, like they stop the way you can rate their, psychologically, their development? Where they stop, and just from being… — Edie Sedgwick
A poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-age longing. — Unknown Author
A lot of us first aspired to far-ranging travel and exotic adventure early in our teens; these ambitions are, in fact, adolescent in nature, which… — Tim Cahill
An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the… — Andrew Greeley
We see the water of a river flowing uninterruptedly and passing away, and all that floats on its surface, rubbish or beams of trees, all… — Tikhon of Zadonsk
I've heard it said that the most dangerous animal on the planet is the adolescent male. — Jacqueline Novogratz
Every artist returns to things. The drawings that you make as a child or as an adolescent and the ideas that you have as a… — Elaine de Kooning
Show me a novelist â€“ or, indeed, a reader â€“ who wasnâ€™t a socially awkward, self-conscious adolescent, prone to clumsiness and excessive reading and Iâ€™llâ€¦… — Unknown Author
When I talk about unrequited love, most of you probably think about romantic love, but there are many other kinds of love that are not… — Rosamund Lupton
An adolescent does not rebel against his parents. He rebels against their power. If parents would rely less on power and more on non-power methods… — Thomas Gordon
The romance of movies is not just in those stories and those people on the screen but in the adolescent dream of meeting others who… — Pauline Kael
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
Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy. — Virginia Satir

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