Adolescent Quotes

152 Adolescent quotes by 136 unique authors

People fantasize about being a hero and helping someone in trouble. Batman is that fantasy realized-not just for Bruce Wayne, but for the audience. Inwardly,… — Kevin Conroy
The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of… — James S. Coleman
You just have to let yourself go and not be worried about what other people are going to say or the things that might come… — Amy Ray
When a child is born, I once explained to the kids, some dads lay down bottles of wine for them that will mature when they… — Mordecai Richler
Strauss admits to being obsessed by his mother's rejection, and with the resultant rents in self-esteem. The Game echoes with disturbingly abusive comments leveled at… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke
The mind of a little child is fascinating, for it looks on old things with new eyes-but at about twelve this changes. The adolescent offers… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man)… — Andre Maurois
As a result of all his education, from everything he hears and sees around him, the child absorbs such a lot of lies and foolish… — Romain Rolland
I don't make money on the road, and so there's less and less incentive for me to do it when I don't have that adolescent… — Juliana Hatfield
Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. — J. G. Ballard
The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the… — George Steiner
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
The Sopranos' is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor, falls, stupid puns, bad jokes - infantile, adolescent stuff, but it makes me laugh. — David Chase
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
As every parent knows, children go through an adolescent growth spurt, during which they put on inches at an alarming rate. Humans are unique in… — Richard Leakey
I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long… — Madeleine Peyroux
I am not an adolescent, nor a romantic. I analyze objectively. — Dilma Rousseff
I've sometimes thought that it's only by recalling that desperate devotion my kids once felt for me that I can maintain my own desperate devotion… — Ayelet Waldman
There aren't a lot of films about adolescents or quote-unquote coming-of-age films that are realistic nowadays. — Shailene Woodley
Babies did not attract me, and I was altogether without the maternal sense so highly developed in small and adolescent girls. — Rita Levi-Montalcini

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