Best 250 quotes in «adolescence quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

One doesn't remain a teenager forever.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

We spend our whole lives recovering from high school.

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

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

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.

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 ...

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

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

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

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.

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.

After a few days of rain, the seedlings will push through the soil and unfold their tiny leaves. Two weeks later, if the rain is still good, we then carefully apply the first round of fertilizer, because each seedling requires love and attention like any living thing if it's going to grow up strong.

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

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

After all, we were young. We were fourteen and fifteen, scornful of childhood, remote from the world of stern and ludicrous adults. We were bored, we were restless, we longed to be seized by any whim or passion and follow it to the farthest reaches of our natures. We wanted to live – to die – to burst into flame – to be transformed into angels or explosions. Only the mundane offended us, as if we secretly feared it was our destiny . By late afternoon our muscles ached, our eyelids grew heavy with obscure desires. And so we dreamed and did nothing, for what was there to do, played ping-pong and went to the beach, loafed in backyards, slept late into the morning – and always we craved adventures so extreme we could never imagine them. In the long dusks of summer we walked the suburban streets through scents of maple and cut grass, waiting for something to happen.

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.

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

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.

Americans invented adolescence. It is not a natural phenomenon. Adolescence is a social construct, created by an urban-industrial society that keeps its young at home far past puberty. Teenage angst is a luxury if a successful modern human conceit that isn't condoned by our superior species.

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.

Apathetic in my adolescence, my heart is fluorescent. It flickers like liquor store lights in the ghetto.

As children inch their way into adolescence, the parent changes. He is an authority, a source of answers, and a chastising voice. Depending on the day, he may be resented, emulated, questioned, or defied. Only as an adult can a child imagine his parent as a whole person, as a husband, a brother, or a son. Only then can a child see how his parent fits into the world beyond four walls. Saleem had only bits and pieces of his father, mostly the memories of a young boy. He would spend the rest of his life, he knew, trying to reconstruct his father with the scraps he could recall or gather from his mother.