Adolescence Quote by Marcel Proust

Adolescence is the time to enlarge the natural sentiments of pity, friendship, and generosity, the time to develop an understanding of human nature and…

— Louise J. Kaplan

Adolescence is not only an important period in life, but that it is the only period where one may speak of life in the…

— Michel Houellebecq

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

Adolescence is a relatively recent thing in human history -- a period of years between the constraints of childhood and the responsibilities of adulthood.…

— Thomas Sowell

Adolescence has been recognised as a stage of human development since medieval times--long, long before the industrial revolution--and, as it is now, has long…

— Terri E Apter

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

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 most Technicolor time in our lives. It's the time when adulthood is new and we care most about it. It contains…

— Ned Vizzini

We have the most prolonged adolescence in the history of mankind. There is no other society that requires so many years to pass before…

— Ralph Nader

“Adolescence--the time when teens begin to do things adults do--now happens later. Thirteen-year-olds--and even 18-year-olds-- are less likely to act like adults and spend…

— Jean M. Twenge

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

— Louise J. Kaplan

Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and…

— Eric Hoffer