Adolescent Quotes
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My glitchy adolescent brain was desperate for causalities, for conspiracies that drenched every word, every gesture, with meaning.
— Emma Cline
When it comes to being slaves to fashion, American managers make adolescent girls look like rugged individualists.
— Geoffrey Nunberg
Where does such tenderness come from
And what do I do with it, you, sly,
Adolescent, vagabond singer,
Whose lashes couldn't be longer? — Marina Tsvetaeva
And what do I do with it, you, sly,
Adolescent, vagabond singer,
Whose lashes couldn't be longer? — Marina Tsvetaeva
My parents were very patient with my pretentious little adolescent snobberies. It took me awhile to accept them.
— Matthew Specktor
Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, doubtless two of the most exquisitely adolescent of fictions.
— Nancy Mairs
If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge.
— James S. Coleman
Novelist and poet David Huddle is a quiet but fabulous writer, and he does adolescent longing better than anyone I know.
— Rebecca Makkai
She was in his heart, in his very soul, and the love he felt for her was so much more than that of an adolescent boy for his first girlfriend.
— Carla Cassidy
I told you once that [our marriage] was like an adolescent's dream of what marriage should be like. That hasn't changed.
— Ronald Reagan
Lisa blamed Twilight, and the preconceived notions about men (especially dangerous men) that it tended to form in the impressionable adolescent mind.
— Nenia Campbell
As an adolescent, Spider-Man was what got me through tough times in terms of being a skinny kid.
— Andrew Garfield
Adolescent youths cry out for us to help them contextualize their life experiences.
— Michael Gurian
his cell phone - the adolescent's pacemaker.
— Anne Lamott
Revenge is little more than an adolescent concession to personal vanity.
— Alan Dean Foster
experienced a bout of atheism. With adolescent self-importance, I wondered why God would allow all this to happen to a fourteen-year-old girl. When
— Padma Lakshmi
I will never be crazy," repeats the adolescent hero to herself. "I will never get killed. I have to grow up.
— Blanche McCrary Boyd
Now if you excuse me, I have better things to do than listen to adolescent agonizing.
— J.K. Rowling
I see no greatness in my self ... I'm a simple-minded, child-like, insipid sort of moronic and kind of akward feeling adolescent.
— Neal Cassady
We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage.
— Charles Krauthammer
Adults have their own issues and their own problems, which are understandable, and some adults are working through their own adolescent issues.-
— Christian Smith
They knew, none better, the havoc caused by a good-looking young man to the hearts of adolescent girls.
— Agatha Christie
I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
— Kate Beckinsale
Rock and Roll adolescent hoodlums storm the streets of all nations. They rush into the Louvre and throw acid in the Mona Lisa's face.
— William S. Burroughs
I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.
— Suzanne Collins
I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.
— Harold Pinter
A poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-age longing.
— William A. Henry III
It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.
— Anna Chlumsky
Make wisdom human to the adolescent mind.
— Will Durant
One understands now the drama that rends the adolescent girl at puberty: she cannot become "a grown-up" without accepting her femininity
— Simone De Beauvoir
There aren't a lot of films about adolescents or quote-unquote coming-of-age films that are realistic nowadays.
— Shailene Woodley
I was - I've always been a bit of perpetual adolescent.
— Rick Springfield
The adolescent is the one who wants to experience everything. The adult comes to realize you can't experience everything.
— Eric Jensen
Sometimes, in my world where parents hated one another and school was a battleground, it sucked to be me.
— Jennifer Brown
I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Babies did not attract me, and I was altogether without the maternal sense so highly developed in small and adolescent girls.
— Rita Levi-Montalcini
At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I see no need in taking part in forced adolescent social rituals that would do nothing but stir up emotions of dread for all involved.
— Jennifer Mathieu
When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[ ... ].
— Simone De Beauvoir
Every time a man dies, a child dies too, and an adolescent and a young man as well; everyone weeps for the one who was dear to him.
— Simone De Beauvoir
No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.
— Marcelene Cox
Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.
— Camille Paglia
Teaching an adolescent pixy and teenage gargoyle how to make explosives might not be such a good idea. But hell, he'd learned when he was five.
— Kim Harrison
There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.
— Anita Diament
I don't believe the United States is going through a midlife crisis. The United States is going through an adolescent crisis.
— Marianne Williamson
Mozart was very much an arrested adolescent.
— Tim Curry
Our need for social and personal change and power is often co-opted and trivialized into an adolescent and self-centered kind of rebellion.
— Jean Kilbourne
Sometimes offering support and making yourself available when the child or adolescent is ready to talk can be the most helpful you can be.
— Timothy Carey
Never had movement been such a burden. Never had a heart been so definite and big in her adolescent chest.
— Markus Zusak
With only adolescent introspection to light the way, each of us, hopelessly pubescent, alone and in secret, attempted to regulate
— Philip Roth
I am not an adolescent, nor a romantic. I analyze objectively.
— Dilma Rousseff
It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting these adolescent scenes.
— Diablo Cody
The important thing is that all stages from adolescent to mature man, work is done to spread the sporting spirit.
— Pierre De Coubertin
The life-changing encounters that John Quincy Adams made as an adolescent on his own in Stockholm began with a friendship he struck up at a bookstore.
— Paul C. Nagel
Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.
— James Broughton
Who but the adolescent is free to have the adventures that most of us are looking for when we turn to storytellers to satisfy our hunger?
— Orson Scott Card
When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.
— Dan Hill
If you are an adolescent, here is the trick to being neither quite a nerd nor quite a jock: be no one.
It is easier than you think. — David Foster Wallace
It is easier than you think. — David Foster Wallace
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
I want audiences to look at adolescent delinquents with greater understanding and more compassion.
— Emmanuelle Bercot
Taking without being taken in the anguish of becoming prey is the dangerous game of adolescent feminine sexuality.
— Simone De Beauvoir
As a teen-ager I was constantly trying to please people, which I guess is true of all adolescents.
— Rosemary Mahoney
Menopause is your return to where you were before, when your hormone levels are the same as a pre-adolescent girl's.
— Sandra Tsing Loh
Adolescents are still children in that they can't yet tell the difference between make believe and fiction.
— Heather O'Neill
Studies show adolescent males often make decisions based on sex. Many fail to grow out of it.
— Nora Roberts
Spending time with the child or adolescent in mutually enjoyable activities on a regular basis will help to build warmth and trust.
— Timothy Carey
As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.
— Umberto Eco
A normal adolescent isn't a normal adolescent
if he acts normal. — Judith Viorst
if he acts normal. — Judith Viorst
Skeptic that I was as an adolescent, I had recently come to believe in a Supreme Being after thumbing through a Victoria's Secret catalogue.
— Woody Allen
Nguyen was a war hawk. The kind of adolescent boy who still thought any problem could be solved by shooting it enough.
— James S.A. Corey
I'm too old to be your adolescent experiment."
Rory called back, "I'm too old to be an experimenting adolescent."
Drawn Together — Z.A. Maxfield
Rory called back, "I'm too old to be an experimenting adolescent."
Drawn Together — Z.A. Maxfield
Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
— Gertrude Stein
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
She smiles through a thousand tears, and harbors adolescent fears. She dreams of all that she can never be, she wades in insecurity.
— Mariah Carey
The American people must mature. We are an adolescent lot, expecting solutions to insoluble problems and perfection in our leaders.
— George Friedman
One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the fates they deserve.
— Nicholas Rescher
Adolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself.
— Sigmund Freud
As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid.
— Will Self
It is terrible when an infant dies, but worse, most people think, when a three-year-old child dies, and worse still when an adolescent does.
— Ezekiel Emanuel
I, the ordinary restless child, the plain adolescent, the commoner who had been a nun twice, would prove to be a Daughter of Heaven.
— Shan Sa
I hang around kids so people will assume when I act like one it's because I'm babysitting.
— Richelle E. Goodrich