Adolescence Quote by G. Stanley Hall

Each generation of adolescents has at least two historical events that color its responses to whatever happens next.

— Mary Doria Russell

When you have lived longer in this world and outlived the enthusiastic and pleasing illusions of youth, you will find your love and pity…

— Joseph Henry Shorthouse

The troubles of the 20th century are not unlike those of adolescence -- rapid growth beyond the ability of organizations to manage, uncontrollable emotion,…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

“Today's youth cannot escape the shadow of racism that has been passed down organically from parents and others who cling to a distorted image…

— Thomas Norman DeWolf

Adolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself.

— Sigmund Freud

Adolescence is a time of active deconstruction, construction, reconstruction--a period in which past, present, and future are rewoven and strung together on the threads…

— Louise J. Kaplan

“Something about the turbulence of adolescence makes you want to do something creative...I thought as I got older I would stop writing about it,…

— Allison Joseph

Adolescence is a twentieth-century invention most parents approach with dread and look back on with the relief of survivors.

— Faye Moskowitz

Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to…

— Louise J. Kaplan

Adolescence is the period of the decisive last battle fought before maturity. The ego must achieve independence, the old emotional ties must be cast…

— Helene Deutsch

Growing up as a mixed-race kid myself, when you are in the middle of it and you're young...you don't think about it consciously. It's…

— Matt de la Pena

Adolescents are the bearers of cultural renewal, those cycles of generation and regeneration that link our limited individual destinies with the destiny of the…

— Louise J. Kaplan