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When you're a kid all you want to do is be somewhere else. — John Scalzi

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own. — Doug Larson

Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolescence. — Carrie Fisher

The conflict between the need to belong to a group and the need to be seen as unique and individual is the dominant struggle of adolescence. — Jeanne Elium

Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion. — Louise J. Kaplan

Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines. — Andre Gide

Adolescence is a kind of slavery cleverly disguised as freedom. — Mardy Grothe

God's way of making separation with children easier was to invent adolescence. — Mark Patinkin

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

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

Adolescence is like cactus. — Anais Nin

Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses. — Jena Malone

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

Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for. — Rex Stout

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

The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age. — Idries Shah

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

[ ... ] whose round face was a sad pink and white topographical map of adolescence. — John L. Parker Jr.

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

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

My entire adolescence was geared toward one thing: gymnastics. — Kerri Strug

Skateboarding is forever, and things like college and girls only ruin an endlessly savored adolescence. — Roger Ebert

Adolescence is a marketing tool. — Cameron Crowe

Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed. — Harlan Coben

Adolescence is that time in your life when you discover your ability to be depressed. — David Gerrold

Having children truly ends adolescence. We are all either parents or children: responsibility-takers or those who demand from others. — Ben Shapiro

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

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

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 think anyone who's ever gone through adolescence and wanted something from their parents knows the basic tenets of a con. — Matt Bomer

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

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

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

Once upon a time there was a girl named Debbie Jacobs and a boy named Teddy Dennis. — Rick Remender

lived my adolescence like a sheepdog moving through a flock of dirty, very stupid sheep. — Jeff Lindsay

Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways. — Tayari Jones

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

The phrase 'Boys will be boys,' reflects that a male child is expected to be unpredictable and occasionally troublesome. — Kilroy J. Oldster