Adolescents Quotes

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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
Almost everything is double like that for adolescents; their lies are true and their truths are lies, and their hearts are broken by the world.… — Ursula K. Le Guin
God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the… — Phyllis McGinley
The missionary experience is part of Christian formation and it is important for adolescents and young people to be able to live it personally. — Pope Benedict XVI
Adolescents need freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that they cannot, in fact, make a choice. — Erik Erikson
Adolescents sense a secret, unique greatness in thems.elves that seeks expression. They gesture towards the heart when trying to express any of this, a significant… — Joseph Chilton Pearce
Integrity is not something that grownups have and adolescents can aspire to. Integrity is something that all of us, at all ages, are constantly striving… — Harold S. Kushner
It was a standard fantasy when you fell in love to imagine you could go back in time and find your beloved growing up, appear… — Norman Rush
Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food; yet not only are our adolescents not taught the physiology of sex, but never warned… — George Bernard Shaw
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 international community faces ever growing phenomena that transcend borders. I am specifically referring to terrorism, transnational organized crime, the global drug problem, corruption, traffic… — Ollanta Humala
I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents. — Suzanne Collins
How you handle peer pressure - the pressure your children feel as well as the pressure you feel - in the early years will play… — Kevin Leman
Almost 400 years ago, Shakespeare was portraying adolescents in a very similar light to the light that we portray them in today - but today… — Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
Poems infatuated with their own smarts and detached from any emotional grounding can leave the reader feeling lonely, empty and ashamed for having expected more.… — Tracy K. Smith
Parents wrongly assume that their daughters live in a world similar to the one they experienced as adolescents. They are dead wrong. Their daughters live… — Mary Pipher
Reverence is an emotion that we can nurture in our very young children, respect is an attitude that we instill in our children as they… — Zoe Weil
Why do children want to grow up? Because they experience their lives as constrained by immaturity and perceive adulthood as a condition of greater freedom… — Thomas Szasz
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
In the bad sixties, when drugs came into widespread use among adolescents and when Scarsdale mothers developed the habit of not asking about each others… — Diana Trilling

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