Best 250 quotes in «adolescence quotes» category

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.

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.

Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence

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

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

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

High school and equality are forever incompatible.

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

High school was great when it ended.

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

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.

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

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

I went through an awkward adolescence and had braces.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy.

One doesn't remain a teenager forever.

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

Premature burial works just fine as a cure for adolescence.

nothing is as conventional as adolescence.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

We spend our whole lives recovering from high school.

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

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

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

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.

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

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