Adolescents Quotes
59 quotes by 56 authors
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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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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
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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
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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
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Adolescents need freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that they cannot, in fact, make a choice.
— Erik Erikson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.
— Suzanne Collins
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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