Adolescence Quote by Stella Chess

Kids don't shuffle along in unison on the road to maturity. They slouch toward adulthood at an uneven, highly individual pace.

— Robin Marantz Henig

Youth is such a fascinating and volatile concoction of vulnerability, dependence, restlessness, relentlessness. You're still learning the terms of the world and of the…

— Laura van den Berg

We need to take a less narrow look at our children’s problems and, instead, see them as windows of opportunity—a way of exploring and…

— Stanley Greenspan

Childhood and youth are ends in themselves, not stages.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Looking back into childhood is like looking into a semi-transparent globe within which people and places lie embedded. A shake - and they stir,…

— Rosamond Lehmann

Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves…

— Jock Sturges

Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.

— Niels Bohr

If the behaviour of babies and small children is any guide, we emerge into the world with our tendencies to imbalance already well entrenched.…

— Alain de Botton

The children who are appreciated for what they are, even if they are homely, or clumsy, or slow, will grow up with confidence in…

— Benjamin Spock

Often, when there is a conflict between parent and child, at its very hub is an expectation that the child should be acting differently.…

— Ellen Galinsky

“Childhood is a process of slowly recomposing oneself out of the borrowed materials of the world.”

— Nicole Krauss