Best 250 quotes in «adolescence quotes» category

... when your palm laced like water on a cheek of mine, a finger raiding each contour by oath, we both knew that in growing up, some signs had to be sought behind closed doors, and upon discovery, remain beyond the doors we wrought as ransom.

Why, I wondered, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, who ought therefore to know better, generalize so suavely and so mendaciously about the golden hours of youth--that period of life when every sorrow seems permanent and every setback insuperable?

Yes, you're right. It's part of growing up, I suppose. You always have to leave something behind you.

Yet GenX'er teens didn't slow down--they were just as likely to drive, drink alcohol, and date as their Boomer peers and more likely to have sex and get pregnant as teens. But then they waited longer to reach full adulthood with careers and children. So GenX'ers managed to lengthen adolescence beyond all previous limits: they started becoming adults earlier and finished becoming adults later.

You can never really trust someone who remembers every embarrassing detail of your adolescence.

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.

You can’t walk me to school,” Tommy said. He came into the kitchen, sat down before his plate, and stared at it, waiting for Sammy to pile it with eggs. “Mom, you can’t possibly. I would die. I would absolutely die.” “He would die,” Sammy told Rosa. “Which would be very embarrassing for me,” Rosa said. “Standing there next to a dead body in front of William Floyd Junior High.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

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.

Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence

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

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

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

High school and equality are forever incompatible.

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

High school was great when it ended.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I went through an awkward adolescence and had braces.

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

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.

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

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.

Premature burial works just fine as a cure for adolescence.

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

One doesn't remain a teenager forever.

Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy.

nothing is as conventional as adolescence.

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.