Best 250 quotes in «adolescence quotes» category

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

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.

High school and equality are forever incompatible.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I went through an awkward adolescence and had braces.

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.

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

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.

Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy.

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

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

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.

One doesn't remain a teenager forever.

Premature burial works just fine as a cure for adolescence.

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

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.

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

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

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

We spend our whole lives recovering from high school.

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.

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.

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 ...

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.

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

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.

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

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, 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.

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

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.