Best 250 quotes in «adolescence quotes» category

Young Henry was conscious, this night, that he had lived for fifteen tedious years without accomplishing any single thing of importance. And had his mother known his feeling she would have said, 'He is growing.' And his father would have repeated after her, 'Yes, the boy is growing.' But neither would have understood what the other meant.

Your mom shoulda told you she was just the diseased old slit all the local hobos used as a cum dumpster when they drank away their money and couldn't afford new porno mags.

Adolescence is a kind of emotional seasickness. Both are funny, but only in retrospect.

Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.

Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence.

Adolescence has such a negative connotation and it shouldn't. It's experimentation, it's being unsure, no preconceived notions.

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

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

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

Adolescence is a plague on the senses.

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

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

Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence

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

All the best human impulses can be traced back to adolescence.

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

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

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

Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.

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

Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.

High school and equality are forever incompatible.

If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you.

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

High school was great when it ended.

In our house we say 'adolescence' is a western word. We don't believe in it.

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

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

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

I went through an awkward adolescence and had braces.

I was... the loser of my class. I had absolutely no friends.

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

I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family.

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

My adolescence was all tits and champagne. I'm downplaying the magic of it all.

L'adolescence est le seul temps o  u' l'on ait appris quelque chose. Adolescence is the only time when we can learn something.

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

nothing is as conventional as adolescence.

My father worked for the Foreign Office, so he was away a lot of the time. We were a very volatile family. There was a lot of love and a lot of conflict. The conflict kicked in mostly during my adolescence.

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

Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy.

Teenagers are like cats - they have important business that doesn't involve mere humans.

Our teen-agers withdrew to their bedrooms on their thirteenth birthday and didn't show themselves to us again until it was time to get married.

she wanted to dance with someone who would embrace her in the way she dreamed of since adolescence.

Someone once remarked that in adolescence pornography is a substitute for sex, whereas in adulthood sex is a substitute for pornography.

One doesn't remain a teenager forever.

Premature burial works just fine as a cure for adolescence.

We live a protracted adolescence. At some point you must leave the party.

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

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