Adolescence Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

When it comes to age, I just feel like puberty is, like, the most horrible time of anyone's life.

— Sam Smith

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

Puberty is an extremely traumatic process even if you don't realize it. It kind of lives with you for like 10 years.

— Andrea Riseborough

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

“After you hit puberty, it's just one thing after the other until the day you die. You have some good years in your twenties,…

— Sarah N. Harvey

Puberty is such a confusing time. You are still a child, with all that wonderful naivete and innocence, but your body is changing, and…

— Maimouna Doucoure

In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently.

— Kate Bush

What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness.

— Alison Gopnik

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

Most of your life after puberty, you're either seeking to reproduce or living with the consequences of having done so. At 70, you start…

— Morris Gleitzman

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

— Martha Graham

After puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious… Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children…

— Antonio Gramsci