Adolescence Quotes

Adolescence Quote of the day

Adolescence is like cactus.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.

Adolescence can be a time of turmoil and turbulence, of stress and storm. Rebellion against authority and against convention is to be expected and tolerated for the sake of learning and growth.

Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.

Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession.

My experience in childhood and adolescence of the subordinate role played by the female in a society run entirely by men had convinced me that I was not cut out to be a wife.

Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity.

Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.

Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.

Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

Until adolescence I thought I had the best mother in the world. Such a graceful mother. I had this fantasy that I was the wrong daughter.

Adolescence: The stage between puberty and adultery.

The main thing that I want to say is that I don't think women are at their most beautiful in their adolescence or in their early 20s.

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

Exploration of the natural world begins in early childhood, flourishes in middle childhood, and continues in adolescence as a pleasure and a source of strength for social action.

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

Adolescence is not only an important period in life, but that it is the only period where one may speak of life in the full sense of the word.

So you try to think of someone else you're mad at, and the unavoidable answer pops into your little warped brain: everyone.

Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.

Adolescence is that time when I think, it can be- it's the cruelest place on Earth. It can really be heartless.

The needs of children during adolescence are particular and acute. They need an opportunity to develop a sense of identity and to maintain the sense of security that emanates from group acceptance.

What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.

My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted.

In no order of things is adolescence the time of the simple life.

Adolescents are attracted to tragic heroes. That's why rock stars dress like homeless people. Adolescence is a fall. It's when every child becomes an orphan.

Adolescence as the time when an individual ‘recapitulates’ the savage stage of the race’s past.

Content without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence.

We become adolescents when the words that adults exchange with one another become intelligible to us.

So much alarmed that she is quite alarming

So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve.

Adolescence is such a fun time in your life, because you think you know it all, and you haven’t gotten to the point where you realize that you know almost nothing.

Greek pederasty honored the erotic magnetism of male adolescence in a way that today brings police to the door. Children are more conscious and perverse than parents like to think.

I had low blood sugar, a chemical imbalance, plus the normal nervous breakdown everyone goes through from adolescence to adulthood.

In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.

Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural knots in it. Yet knots form, nearly always in adolescence.

Stages of life are artifacts. Adolescence is a useful contrivance, midlife is a moving target, senior citizens are an interest group, and tweenhood is just plain made up.

Skateboarding is forever, and things like college and girls only ruin an endlessly savored adolescence.

I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.

So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition.

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

By the time I was in my early teens, we were able to move into a much more middle-class area. I had a comfortable adolescence.

Adolescence is the period of the decisive last battle fought before maturity. The ego must achieve independence, the old emotional ties must be cast off, the new ones created.