Adolescence Quotes

Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.

There comes a time. The pain of existence transcends the fear of change. There comes a time.

I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay of the odds that I might live for a while, that I can sleep it off.

Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.

I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.

I look back at my adolescence, and Im shocked at the things I did that were my idea of adult behavior.

Adolescence begins when children stop asking questions-because they know all the answers.

Adolescence isn't a period; it's a coma.

Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.

When you're lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.

My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.

There is a weirdness about having a famous pre-pubescent in the house when you are going through the trials and tribulations of adolescence.

I went through an awkward adolescence and had braces.

My fear is that I will be crushed in an elevator and my mother will get hold of my journals from my adolescence.

I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with.

When you're a kid all you want to do is be somewhere else.

No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.

It's easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school.

Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery.

Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence & manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn w/ Tests , deaths, feats, rites stories, songs, & judgements.

To me Donnie Darko was about adolescence. And about how, as soon as you start to grow up and you sort of move out into the world, you realize everything is so trippy. That anything can be anything.

In adolescence you have to separate yourself and establish your identity. So, being very independent anyway, I took charge.

Any book that can help you survive the slings and arrows of adolescence is a book to love for life; 'The Catcher in the Rye' did just that, and I still do love it.

But let us not forget that cities are like human beings. They are born, they go through childhood and adolescence, they grow old, and eventually they die

Adolescence is that time in your life when you discover your ability to be depressed.

One doesn't remain a teenager forever.

I don't believe in professional dissidents. I think it's just a phase, like adolescence.

Man has boyhood, adolescence, youth, middle age and senescence, as stages of growth; there are also corresponding stages in the growth of wisdom in him.

The overwhelmingly successful trial book of my early adolescence had been To Kill A Mocking Bird.

Just because I do what I do doesn't mean I escaped adolescence, all the bumps and bruises that go along with it.

I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.

The mentality of an army on the march is merely so much delayed adolescence; it remains persistently, incorrigibly and notoriously infantile.

Looking younger and being younger is the adolescence idea.

Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.

Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence - and just as adventurous.

Although I was well past my teenage troubles, our music was specifically designed to lubricate the passage from adolescence to adulthood.

Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy.

He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.

All any grownup expects of an adolescent is that he act like an adult and be satisfied to be treated like a child.

The conflict between the need to belong to a group and the need to be seen as unique and individual is the dominant struggle of adolescence.

We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations.

Teenagers are my life and my triumph. I'd be nowhere without them.

Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive; imagination, not seldom, is sedate.

I wanted to make a body of work that looked at what it felt like to be a boy going through adolescence.

I'm pretty squeaky clean. No big tragedies in my childhood or adolescence or adulthood. I've had a very easygoing, simple life.

True love comes along after adolescence, when we have learned not to cry for nothing.

I have decided to keep a full journal, in the hope that my life will perhaps seem more interesting when it is written down.

Adolescence is a kind of slavery cleverly disguised as freedom.

Some adolescents are troubled and some get into trouble. But the great majority (almost nine out of ten) do not. . . . The bottomline is that good kids don't suddenly go bad in adolescence.

Adolescence in my growing up period was truly "Happy Days," the title of a TV show connotating the quality of this life period.