Adolescence Quotes
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Adolescence Quotes & Sayings
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Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolescence.
— Carrie Fisher
Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.
— Louise J. Kaplan
Just because I do what I do doesn't mean I escaped adolescence, all the bumps and bruises that go along with it.
— Anna Paquin
The overwhelmingly successful trial book of my early adolescence had been To Kill A Mocking Bird.
— Scott Turow
Adolescence is like having only enough light to see the step directly in front of you.
— Sarah Addison Allen
Adolescence in my growing up period was truly "Happy Days," the title of a TV show connotating the quality of this life period.
— Virgil Miller Newton
Adolescence is like cactus.
— Anais Nin
I started on 'Neighbours' when I was 14. It's crazy to think now that I had such a bizarre adolescence.
— Eliza Taylor
As my children leave the protected parameters of the bay called childhood and enter the wavier seas of adolescence, I'm starting to get seasick.
— Kristin Armstrong
Adolescence: The stage between puberty and adultery.
— Ambrose Bierce
An excess of the desire to appear grown up is one of the defining characteristics of adolescence.
— Michael Chabon
By the time I turned 12, I was a 5-foot 10-inch social disaster. Towering over my friends was the bane of my adolescence.
— Sheri L. Dew
I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
— Aimee Bender
Unresolved issues from childhood revisit us in adulthood.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
We're teenagers," Sylvia said. "we're all depressed.
— Kimberly McCreight
Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.
— Earl Wilson
I'm a big people pleaser; I had a very awkward adolescence. Part of me is still that person who wants everyone to like me.
— Alissa Nutting
I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.
— Suzanne Collins
The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence.
— Amity Shlaes
Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
— G. Stanley Hall
Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor.
— Jodie Foster
It was a community of scholars just outside of adolescence, a sort of Marvel comic where every hero represented a different arm of the humanities.
— Maggie Stiefvater
My face seems too square and my eyes too big, like I'm perpetually surprised, but there's nothing wrong with me that I can fix.
— David Levithan
My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted.
— Walker Percy
F. Scott Fitzgerald thought that prolonging his adolescence would protect his talent.
— Mason Cooley
I wanted to make a body of work that looked at what it felt like to be a boy going through adolescence.
— Polixeni Papapetrou
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— John L. Parker Jr.
This Thursday night felt like adolescence: exquisitely painful and sharply beautiful.
— Liane Moriarty
Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
At that age you think boys have as much personality as coat hangers and, you don't notice their looks.Then you grow up. — John Marsden
Adolescence is a skin we never quite shed.
— Tom McNeal
Nothing is as conventional as adolescence.
— Margaret Deland
When you're lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.
— Erma Bombeck
So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Some of the friendships I've found as an adult are far more rewarding than those forged out of the convenience of adolescence.
— Rachel Bertsche
No matter what your origin or beliefs, rather adolescent or full grown. Thoughts are scribed in pencil but actions are carved in stone
— Carl Henegan
But adolescence is a time of hurts.
— Angela Elwell Hunt
Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
— Benedict Cumberbatch
A large part of my adolescence was spent doing my very best to draw attention to myself.
— Rufus Sewell
Adolescence involves our nutty-desperate-ecstatic-rash psychological efforts to come to terms with new bodies and outrageous urges.
— Judith Viorst
All the best human impulses can be traced back to adolescence.
— Helene Deutsch
Skateboarding is forever, and things like college and girls only ruin an endlessly savored adolescence.
— Roger Ebert
Adolescence is a marketing tool.
— Cameron Crowe
Adolescence is that time in your life when you discover your ability to be depressed.
— David Gerrold
Stop looking at what everyone else has! You have to figure out who you are before you can be anyone!
— Setona Mizushiro
The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs ...
— Adrienne Rich
I remember adolescence, the years of having the impulse control of a mousetrap, of being as private as a safe-deposit box.
— Anna Quindlen
We don't do all our growing up between birth and adolescence or even our twenties. If we're fortunate, we never stop.
— Diane Guerrero
I don't believe in professional dissidents. I think it's just a phase, like adolescence.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
I'm pretty squeaky clean. No big tragedies in my childhood or adolescence or adulthood. I've had a very easygoing, simple life.
— Vera Farmiga
Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past.
— G. Stanley Hall
We laughed harder than the humor deserved, which goes to show you no matter your age, you're closer to adolescence than you think.
— Lorna Landvik
All any grownup expects of an adolescent is that he act like an adult and be satisfied to be treated like a child.
— John Grant
Men change less than is imagined; their after life is only a kaleidescope combination of the elements of their character at the period of adolescence.
— Geraldine Jewsbury
Childhood introduces children to the wounds of the world.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
I think I've been lucky enough to have had an extended adolescence. I'm a lot like I was when I was 15.
— Ariel Pink
I have decided to keep a full journal, in the hope that my life will perhaps seem more interesting when it is written down.
— Sue Townsend
Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony.
— Andy Hargreaves
I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.
— Robert Cormier
Adolescence is a plague on the senses.
— Henry Rollins
Just out of high school, you didn't realize you were creating drama for the sake of drama.
— Donald Miller
My adolescence was a kind of motorway pile-up. I wish I had known that one day the geek would inherit the Earth.
— Peter Capaldi
Oh, he's a sweet thing and I love him so--and I love life--and everything's beautiful!
— Cornelia Spelman
She wanted to dance with someone who would embrace her in the way she dreamed of since adolescence.
— Paulo Coelho
We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations.
— Freeman Dyson
Adolescence is the same tragedy being performed again and again. The only things that change are the stage props.
— Lindsey Leavitt
I went through an awkward adolescence and had braces.
— Christina Ricci
Adolescence is a kind of emotional seasickness. Both are funny, but only in retrospect.
— Arthur Koestler
Maturity is when your world opens up and you realize that you are not the center of it.
— M.J. Croan
It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood.
— Chris Van Hollen
lived my adolescence like a sheepdog moving through a flock of dirty, very stupid sheep.
— Jeff Lindsay
Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults.
— Julian Barnes
Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.
— Louise J. Kaplan
In adolescence she thought it was too early to choose, now in youth she was convinced it was too late to change.
— Paulo Coelho
After all, there was something rather pleasant in knowing that you were misunderstood. It made you feel different from everyone else.
— Henry Handel Richardson
I always loved acting, but when you get older and you're going through adolescence, the roles are limited.
— Jonathan Ke Quan
There comes a time. The pain of existence transcends the fear of change. There comes a time.
— Moshe Kasher
In adolescence students are suddenly turned loose on books worth reading, but generally don't know how to read them.
— Martin Buber
Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.
— Jules Feiffer
From adolescence to death there is something very personal about being a Negro in America.
— Jay Saunders Redding
