Adolescence Quote by Phyllis McGinley

Adolescents are travelers, far from home with no native land, neither children nor adults. They are jet-setters who fly from one country to another…

— Mary Pipher

“Children—their untroubled, idyllic vision of the future is almost always shattered. Sooner or later they learn what all youth must—that life is the cruel…

— Andrew Levkoff

When kids are young, before the age of ten, there is a critical window of opportunity when their habits and motivations can be influenced.

— Richard Attias

“This equation has placed our cities among the most dangerous in the world and has placed our youth among the most empty and most…

— James Baldwin

When youth live in fear of becoming who they are, as adults, they can't become the creative beings that we are meant to be…

— Sophie Gregoire Trudeau

“They also create wormholes in time, transporting their mothers and fathers back to feelings and sensations they haven't had since they themselves were young.…

— Jennifer Senior

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A…

— John Bradshaw

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit…

— Samuel Richardson

Youth demands more than ordinary life. Age clings to it.

— Mason Cooley

“Youths as children will see no wrong but feel it, as juveniles youths will see and feel wrongs and cope anyway they can, as…

— Phillip D'Anna

The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgement but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if…

— Midge Decter

Children exist in the worlds that adults create for them, both locally and globally, and their options are, by virtue of age, often painfully…

— Laura van den Berg