Best 250 quotes in «adolescence quotes» category

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

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

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

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

I went through an awkward adolescence and had braces.

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

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

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

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

nothing is as conventional as adolescence.

Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy.

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.

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

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

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

The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle.

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

The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs.

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

Traditionally parents have wondered what their teens were doing, but now teens are much more likely to be doing things that can get them killed.

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

You can certainly extend your adolescence. There's people that are very good at extending it indefinitely.

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

We spend our whole lives recovering from high school.

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.

When you have three teenagers, it gives a whole new meaning to "homeland security.

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.

You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.

Adolescence feeds on drama, it is most happy when living in extremis, and Ferguson was no less vulnerable to the lure of high emotion and extravagant unreason than any other boy his age ...

Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession." ~ G. Stanley Hall

Adolescence--the time when teens begin to do things adults do--now happens later. Thirteen-year-olds--and even 18-year-olds-- are less likely to act like adults and spend their time like adults. They are more likely, instead, to act like children--not by being immature, necessarily, but by postponing the usual activities of adults. Adolescence is now an extension of childhood rather than the beginning of adulthood.

Adolescence impelled her eyes to stay at an even keel, to deal with the ground before flickering to the heavens. Night became not dotted with fairy clouds of celestial brilliance, but simply the time when the sun was out of sight.

Adolescence is the same tragedy being performed again and again. The only things that change are the stage props.

- ...before I was going to college, my secret plan was to one day not tell anybody and just get on some bus to some random city and just move there and become this totally different person. - Then what? - ...and not come back until I had totally become this person... I used to think about it all the time... - I don't get it... - That's because you don't uterlly loathe yourself

After all, there was something rather pleasant in knowing that you were misunderstood. It made you feel different from everyone else.

All great men have been rebels. All great men were free. It is the only formula for greatness. To be stuck in the state of adolescence.

All my life I've felt like there was something wrong with me. Something missing or damaged." "Every teenager in the world feels like that, feels broken or out of place, different somehow, royalty mistakenly born into a family of peasants.

And because you have not yet developed feelings toward yourself (other than negative feelings about your body), you see yourself only as a reflection of what other people think of you

As parents we want our children to reach the point where they can function independently of us. We want this for their own good and also for ours, since we have been through many years of the hard work of parenting and now desire the freedom that comes with the empty nest. Parenting has wonderful rewards but it also requires an exacting price. Having done the hard work of parenting, we look forward the time when we can enjoy the fruit of our labors, watch our children follow their own dreams while we explore new horizons for ourselves. It is the way life is designed - children to become adults.

A TODOS, en algún momento, se nos ha revelado nuestra existencia como algo particular, intransferible y precioso. Casi siempre esta revelación se sitúa en la adolescencia. El descubrimiento de nosotros mismos se manifiesta como un sabernos solos; entre el mundo y nosotros se abre una impalpable, transparente muralla: la de nuestra conciencia.

At seventeen, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind; having someone accept you became as vital as oxygen. Adults, light years away from this, rolled their eyes and smirked "this too shall pass" - as if adolescence was a disease like chicken pox, something that everyone recalled as a mild nuisance, completely forgettingone how painful it had been at the time.

...będę miał okazję dokonać wielkiego czynu, nie jestem już bowiem zwiędłą lilią...