Adolescence Quotes
Adolescence is a border between childhood and adulthood. Like all borders, it's teeming with energy and fraught with danger.
Adolescence has such a negative connotation and it shouldn't. It's experimentation, it's being unsure, no preconceived notions.
I was approaching adolescence. For some reason, I guess my mother thought it would be less crazy out in the suburbs, which it wasn't. I just think adolescence is hard for anyone.
In adolescence she thought it was too early to choose, now in youth she was convinced it was too late to change.
she wanted to dance with someone who would embrace her in the way she dreamed of since adolescence.
I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family.
Sending grown-ups up the wall is one of the things adolescence is all about. A few years ago it was done with rock 'n' roll music. Now at least they can do it quietly with a home computer.
During adolescence, friends bring an intimate quality of support that can't be provided by any adult.
I think every teenager goes through their angst. People who are like, 'No, I had a perfect adolescence,' make me wonder how that is possible.
By passing into the psychedelic phase, the space-faring phase, the entire species is passing into adolescence.
The truth remains that, after adolescence has begun, "words, words, words," must constitute a large part, and an always larger part as life advances, of what the human being has to learn.
I can do one of two things. I can be President of the United States or I can control Alice Roosevelt. (His 19-year-old daughter.) I cannot possibly do both.
After all, there was something rather pleasant in knowing that you were misunderstood. It made you feel different from everyone else.
The phrase ‘Boys will be boys, ’ reflects that a male child is expected to be unpredictable and occasionally troublesome.
Figure out what you care about...and then care about it
You can never really trust someone who remembers every embarrassing detail of your adolescence.
Yes, you're right. It's part of growing up, I suppose. You always have to leave something behind you.ü
Yes, you're right. It's part of growing up, I suppose. You always have to leave something behind you.
Stop looking at what everyone else has! You have to figure out who you are before you can be anyone!
I DON’T KNOW! I HAVE NO FREAKIN’ IDEA. I’M ONLY FIFTEEN. I want my mom.
Puberty corrupts - that’s a fact, and it corrupts without consent – that’s the concern.
But I don't want to just believe it, I want it to be true.
Everything was brighter and more colorful in those years, as if my childhood was ending in an explosion of unreal passion that made my life feel sacred and holy.
He's taking the change well?" She asked.Except for getting a bit overtired. He's excited, but what 15-year-old wouldn't be under these circumstances?
Abigail Adams is willing to risk her son's exposure to danger in Europe so that he can be at his fathers side, at an age where he can "most benefit from his father's example and precepts.
During childhood, it’s about trying to help develop who your kid’s going to be. During adolescence, it’s about responding to who your kid wants to be.
No matter what your origin or beliefs, rather adolescent or full grown. Thoughts are scribed in pencil but actions are carved in stone
We skip school and we ditch chores. We haunt shopping malls and grocery stores. House parties grow dull, but Amy's boyfriend is a dealer and we find ways to pass the time.
Apathetic in my adolescence, my heart is fluorescent. It flickerslike liquor store lights in the ghetto.
I was there laughing and joking with everyone else, but it’s like there was some part of mestanding back, watching, thinking, “Is this as good as it gets?
Bailey took an exasperated breath and sat up in the seat. “You can’t reason with a teenage girl.”Elise’s eyebrow shot up. “Bailey, you’re a teenage girl.”“Exactly.
Once upon a time there was a girl named Debbie Jacobs and a boy named Teddy Dennis.
I met Baba Yaga at the end of childhood – past pigtails and fairytales, but not quite ready to give up on make-believe.
He'd possessed all the key elements of a school shooter: hormones, misery, ammunition. People wondered how something like Columbine could happen. Jude wondered why it didn't happen more often.
The nice thing about being an adolescent is being able to make mature decisions when you need them and being able to just flow alone with life when you don't.
How do you teach a classroom of Sybils who are breaking apart and reforming right in front of you?
Most of the students there, he said, don't know what they think. You tell 'em, they'll think it. I plan to tell 'em.
Just out of high school, you didn't realize you were creating drama for the sake of drama.
Nobody, she felt, understood her--not her mother, not her father, not her sister or brother, none of the girls or boys at school, nadie--except her man.