Quotes about Adolescence

Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born. Votes: 8

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood. Votes: 6

Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses. Votes: 6

Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts. Votes: 6

Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future. Votes: 6

Adolescence is just one big walking pimple. Votes: 5

Adolescence: The stage between puberty and adultery. Votes: 5

Adolescence isn't a period; it's a coma. Votes: 4

Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor. Votes: 4

Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility. Votes: 4

Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough. Votes: 4

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future. Votes: 4

Adolescence is like cactus. Votes: 3

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved. Votes: 3

Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery. Votes: 3

Adolescence is a plague on the senses. Votes: 3

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious. Votes: 3

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence. Votes: 3

What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence. Votes: 3

Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony. Votes: 3

Adolescence is a kind of slavery cleverly disguised as freedom. Votes: 3

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence. Votes: 3

Adolescence begins when children stop asking questions-because they know all the answers. Votes: 3

Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways. Votes: 3

Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility. Votes: 3

Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence. Votes: 3

Adolescence is a kind of emotional seasickness. Both are funny, but only in retrospect. Votes: 3

Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past. Votes: 3

True love comes along after adolescence, when we have learned not to cry for nothing. Votes: 3

Adolescence is that time in your life when you discover your ability to be depressed. Votes: 3

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. Votes: 3

Adolescence as the time when an individual "˜recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past. Votes: 3

Adolescence involves our nutty-desperate-ecstatic-rash psychological efforts to come to terms with new bodies and outrageous urges. Votes: 3

Adolescence is like having only enough light to see the step directly in front of you. Votes: 3

Adolescence has such a negative connotation and it shouldn't. It's experimentation, it's being unsure, no preconceived notions. Votes: 3

I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence. Votes: 3

Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession. Votes: 3

Adolescence is a twentieth-century invention most parents approach with dread and look back on with the relief of survivors. Votes: 3

Adolescence is a border between childhood and adulthood. Like all borders, it's teeming with energy and fraught with danger. Votes: 3

Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice. Votes: 3

I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence. Votes: 3

I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies. Votes: 3

Adolescence is that time when I think, it can be- it's the cruelest place on Earth. It can really be heartless. Votes: 3

Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years. Votes: 3

Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for. Votes: 3

Adolescence-is it the first time in life we discover that we have something terrible to hide from those who love us? Votes: 3

L'adolescence est le seul temps o u' l'on ait appris quelque chose. Adolescence is the only time when we can learn something. Votes: 3

Adolescence in my growing up period was truly "Happy Days," the title of a TV show connotating the quality of this life period. Votes: 3

Adolescence, that swampy zone between safety and power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense and mercy, not guns and a badge. Votes: 3

Adolescence isn't about relationships, its about dating. Its suppose to be relaxed, and fun. Isn't that what being a teenager is all about? Votes: 3

Adolescence and early youth...the fires are burning fastest, right? And your energy level is highest. It demands...and rock is screaming type music. Votes: 3

Adolescents are attracted to tragic heroes. That's why rock stars dress like homeless people. Adolescence is a fall. It's when every child becomes an orphan. Votes: 3

What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around. Votes: 3

Adolescence isn't about relationships, its about dating. Its so you know the kind of person you want to be with when you're ready for that relationship. Votes: 3

I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird. Votes: 3

Stages of life are artifacts. Adolescence is a useful contrivance, midlife is a moving target, senior citizens are an interest group, and tweenhood is just plain made up. Votes: 3

Adolescence is not only an important period in life, but that it is the only period where one may speak of life in the full sense of the word. Votes: 3

Adolescence is the period of the decisive last battle fought before maturity. The ego must achieve independence, the old emotional ties must be cast off, the new ones created. Votes: 3

With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie. Votes: 3

Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride. Votes: 3

Adolescence is such a fun time in your life, because you think you know it all, and you haven’t gotten to the point where you realize that you know almost nothing. Votes: 3

Adolescence can be a time of turmoil and turbulence, of stress and storm. Rebellion against authority and against convention is to be expected and tolerated for the sake of learning and growth. Votes: 3

Adolescence is interesting. I mean, all of life is interesting and all of life is transitionary. But I think there is an exponential growth physically, intellectually, emotionally and there is so much potential. Votes: 3

Adolescence is a dreadful period. We tend to notice those youngsters who misbehave and call attention to themselves, but there are others, equally miserable, who receive no help simply because they are silent. (41) Votes: 3

Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives. Votes: 3

Most parents of adolescent girls have the goal of keeping their daughters safe while they grow up and explore the world. The parents' job is to protect, the daughter's job is to explore. Votes: 3

Adolescence is a tough time for parent and child alike. It is a time between: between childhood and maturity, between parental protection and personal responsibility, between life stage- managed by grown-ups and life privately held. Votes: 3

Adolescence is a time of active deconstruction, construction, reconstruction--a period in which past, present, and future are rewoven and strung together on the threads of fantasies and wishes that do not necessarily follow the laws of linear chronology. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I made a film about adolescence and what going through it is like for a specific group of girls. Adolescence is always about wanting desperately to be individuals, and also about wanting desperately to fit in. For every teenager it's about finding that balance. Votes: 3

Adolescence is the time to enlarge the natural sentiments of pity, friendship, and generosity, the time to develop an understanding of human nature and the varieties of human character, the time to gain insight into the strengths and weaknesses of all men and to study the history of mankind. Votes: 3

I went through an awkward adolescence and had braces. Votes: 1

I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity. Votes: 1

I don't believe in professional dissidents. I think it's just a phase, like adolescence. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

I think every teenager goes through their angst. People who are like, 'No, I had a perfect adolescence,' make me wonder how that is possible. Votes: 1

I may not have gone to high school every day, but I spent whole a lot of my adolescence feeling vulnerable and confused and alone... just like everybody else. Votes: 1

We have to acknowledge that adolescence is that time of transition where we begin to introduce to children that life isn't pretty, that there are difficult things, there are hard situations, it's not fair. Bad things happen to good people. Votes: 1

When faced with a challenge, happy families, like happy people, just add a new chapter to their life story that shows them overcoming the hardship. This skill is particularly important for children, whose identity tends to get locked in during adolescence. Votes: 1

The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as the poet says, is always through Votes: 1

No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren't cool, just to establish themselves. That's what adolescence is about. They're gonna go through that no matter what. Votes: 1

I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever. Votes: 1

My childhood, adolescence and high school days are unusually important. If there has ever been a time that I developed a uniqueness and sense of humor and the ability to organize, it was then. In those early days, I developed the skills that gave me a certain degree of success in American politics. Votes: 1

Being a father can 'unreason' your worldview, or at least make it very flexible, and that can create all sorts of fun and insights. It's sad that children's open-eyed wonder and sense of play begin to fade as they approach adolescence. One grand function of fathering is to keep the fading to a minimum. Votes: 1

Dogs are a really amazing eye opener for us humans because their lives are compressed into such a short period, so we can see them go from puppyhood to adolescence to strong adulthood and then into their sunset years in 10 to 12 years. It really drives home the point of how finite all our lives are. Votes: 1

I was not popular in school, and I was definitely not a ladies' man. And I had a very painful adolescence, because it was all very strange to me. It wasn't like I got beat up, but the humiliation and isolation, and the existential 'God, I exist, and nobody cares' of being a teenager were extremely pronounced for me. Votes: 1

Life flies by, and it's easy to get lost in the blur. In adolescence, it's 'How do I fit in?' In your 20s, it's 'What do I want to do?' In your 30s, 'Is this what I'm meant to do?' I think the trick is living the questions. Not worrying so much about what's ahead but rather sitting in the grey area - being OK with where you are. Votes: 1

nothing is as conventional as adolescence. Votes: 0

My entire adolescence was geared toward one thing: gymnastics. Votes: 0

Looking younger and being younger is the adolescence idea. Votes: 0

Everybody who made it through adolescence is a hero. Votes: 0

Premature burial works just fine as a cure for adolescence. Votes: 0

He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence. Votes: 0

All the best human impulses can be traced back to adolescence. Votes: 0

Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap. Votes: 0

I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents. Votes: 0

Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period. Votes: 0

Content without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence. Votes: 0

God's way of making separation with children easier was to invent adolescence. Votes: 0

F. Scott Fitzgerald thought that prolonging his adolescence would protect his talent. Votes: 0

Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed. Votes: 0

My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London. Votes: 0

We live a protracted adolescence. At some point you must leave the party. Votes: 0

The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age. Votes: 0

In no order of things is adolescence the time of the simple life. Votes: 0

Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolescence. Votes: 0

Storybooks were always a big part of my imagination, and my childhood and adolescence. Votes: 0

many of us are done with adolescence before we are done with adolescent love. Votes: 0

I picture Generation X as young adults living in a state of perpetual adolescence. Votes: 0

My adolescence was all tits and champagne. I'm downplaying the magic of it all. Votes: 0

I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult. Votes: 0

If God wanted a world filled with saints, He never would have created adolescence. Votes: 0

Laziness - The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age. Votes: 0

From adolescence to death there is something very personal about being a Negro in America. Votes: 0

Skateboarding is forever, and things like college and girls only ruin an endlessly savored adolescence. Votes: 0

After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes. Votes: 0

The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle. Votes: 0

In our house we say 'adolescence' is a western word. We don't believe in it. Votes: 0

I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family. Votes: 0

The overwhelmingly successful trial book of my early adolescence had been To Kill A Mocking Bird. Votes: 0

You can certainly extend your adolescence. There's people that are very good at extending it indefinitely. Votes: 0

During adolescence, friends bring an intimate quality of support that can't be provided by any adult. Votes: 0

By passing into the psychedelic phase, the space-faring phase, the entire species is passing into adolescence. Votes: 0

A team goes through stages of birth, childhood, puberty, adolescence, maturity, and aging in its development. Votes: 0

Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion. Votes: 0

The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs ... Votes: 0

Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive; imagination, not seldom, is sedate. Votes: 0

It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood. Votes: 0

I spent my whole adolescence, when you just want to be accepted, looking much younger than everyone else. Votes: 0

...at some point we must achieve our identity -we can't be always in adolescence seeking who we are... Votes: 0

she wanted to dance with someone who would embrace her in the way she dreamed of since adolescence. Votes: 0

In adolescence you have to separate yourself and establish your identity. So, being very independent anyway, I took charge. Votes: 0

Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence Votes: 0

Perhaps the world progresses not by maturing, but by being in a permanent state of adolescence, of thrilled discovery. Votes: 0

Having children truly ends adolescence. We are all either parents or children: responsibility-takers or those who demand from others. Votes: 0

Massachusetts is the first state in America to reach full adulthood. The rest of America is still in adolescence. Votes: 0

Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity. Votes: 0

A part of adolescence is feelimg that there's no one else around who's enough like youself to understand you. Votes: 0

If this was mental illness, or even just a particularly clinical case of adolescence, I was bearing up pretty well. Votes: 0

I had low blood sugar, a chemical imbalance, plus the normal nervous breakdown everyone goes through from adolescence to adulthood. Votes: 0

So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition. Votes: 0

A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew. Votes: 0

Someone once remarked that in adolescence pornography is a substitute for sex, whereas in adulthood sex is a substitute for pornography. Votes: 0

The mentality of an army on the march is merely so much delayed adolescence; it remains persistently, incorrigibly and notoriously infantile. Votes: 0

Although I was well past my teenage troubles, our music was specifically designed to lubricate the passage from adolescence to adulthood. Votes: 0

I'm pretty squeaky clean. No big tragedies in my childhood or adolescence or adulthood. I've had a very easygoing, simple life. Votes: 0

Beginnings of youth to growth of adolescence till autumn of life; every step journeyed with blossomed smiles wearing my dancing shoes. Votes: 0

I remember adolescence, the years of having the impulse control of a mousetrap, of being as private as a safe-deposit box. Votes: 0

I look back at my adolescence, and Im shocked at the things I did that were my idea of adult behavior. Votes: 0

I think I've been lucky enough to have had an extended adolescence. I'm a lot like I was when I was 15. Votes: 0

Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice. Votes: 0

In adolescence she thought it was too early to choose, now in youth she was convinced it was too late to change. Votes: 0

I wanted to make a body of work that looked at what it felt like to be a boy going through adolescence. Votes: 0

My adolescence was a kind of motorway pile-up. I wish I had known that one day the geek would inherit the Earth. Votes: 0

Just because I do what I do doesn't mean I escaped adolescence, all the bumps and bruises that go along with it. Votes: 0

Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence and manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn with tests, deaths, feats, rites, stories, songs, and judgments. Votes: 0

The Catcher in the Rye.' When I was a teenager, that was my book; yes, somebody gets it, somebody gets adolescence. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There is a weirdness about having a famous pre-pubescent in the house when you are going through the trials and tribulations of adolescence. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Man has boyhood, adolescence, youth, middle age and senescence, as stages of growth; there are also corresponding stages in the growth of wisdom in him. Votes: 0

By the time I was in my early teens, we were able to move into a much more middle-class area. I had a comfortable adolescence. Votes: 0

Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence - and just as adventurous. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My adolescence progressed normally: enough misery to keep the death wish my usual state, an occasional high to keep me from actually taking the gas-pipe. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence. Votes: 0

Sex begins before adolescence, and survives sterility; it is indeed coeval with our lives, although at the mating age its effects are more obvious to Society. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Until adolescence I thought I had the best mother in the world. Such a graceful mother. I had this fantasy that I was the wrong daughter. Votes: 0

In my adolescence, love, as I think for most of us, was a tremendous focus. I wanted to find the perfect partner. I did and married her. Votes: 0

The main thing that I want to say is that I don't think women are at their most beautiful in their adolescence or in their early 20s. Votes: 0

But let us not forget that cities are like human beings. They are born, they go through childhood and adolescence, they grow old, and eventually they die Votes: 0

Exploration of the natural world begins in early childhood, flourishes in middle childhood, and continues in adolescence as a pleasure and a source of strength for social action. Votes: 0

All of us, at some moment, have had a vision of our existence as something unique, untransferable and very precious. This revelation almost always takes place during adolescence. Votes: 0

The more intelligent and competent a woman is in her adult life, the less likely she is to have received an adequate amount of romantic attention in adolescence. Votes: 0

Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years. Votes: 0

There's something so remarkable in the intensity of taking care of somebody who can't take care of him or herself. And then watching that little person bloom into adolescence. Votes: 0

Something dramatic happens to girls in early adolescence. Just as planes and ships disappear mysteriously into the Bermuda Triangle, so do the selves of girls go down in droves. Votes: 0

Greek pederasty honored the erotic magnetism of male adolescence in a way that today brings police to the door. Children are more conscious and perverse than parents like to think. Votes: 0

I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with. Votes: 0

It is idle to talk of civil liberties to adults who were systematically taught in adolescence that they had none; and it is sheer hypocrisy to call such people freedom loving. Votes: 0

Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems. Votes: 0

The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change. Votes: 0

We love, you know, children love the ingredients of poetry. And then they go into this tunnel that we call adolescence, and when they come out of it, they hate poetry. Votes: 0

It was not designed for me to be 35 and still doing the same thing. But in another sense, it's like I've had an extended adolescence. It helps that I look young, too. Votes: 0

The needs of children during adolescence are particular and acute. They need an opportunity to develop a sense of identity and to maintain the sense of security that emanates from group acceptance. Votes: 0

They must move from a psychological state of victimization to a psychological state of accepting responsibility. The Palestinians must leave behind their revolutionary adolescence and demonstrate that they have reached political maturity. Votes: 0

A single message from space will show that it is possible to live through technological adolescence. . . . It is possible that the future of human civilization depends on the receipt of interstellar messages. Votes: 0

The truth remains that, after adolescence has begun, "words, words, words," must constitute a large part, and an always larger part as life advances, of what the human being has to learn. Votes: 0

Some adolescents are troubled and some get into trouble. But the great majority (almost nine out of ten) do not. . . . The bottomline is that good kids don't suddenly go bad in adolescence. Votes: 0

The independence and rebelliousness of our adolescence offer us yet another quality essential to our practice; the insistence that we find out the truth for ourselves, accepting no one's word above our own experience. Votes: 0

Being Jewish, you didn't get into a sorority. So I really was much more outgoing and gregarious. I really didn't want to spend an Emily Dickinson adolescence reading poetry on gravestones, which I did. Votes: 0

Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural knots in it. Yet knots form, nearly always in adolescence. Votes: 0

In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40. Votes: 0

Any book that can help you survive the slings and arrows of adolescence is a book to love for life; 'The Catcher in the Rye' did just that, and I still do love it. Votes: 0

Any book that can help you survive the slings and arrows of adolescence is a book to love for life; 'The Catcher in the Rye' did just that, and I still do love it." Votes: 0

My experience in childhood and adolescence of the subordinate role played by the female in a society run entirely by men had convinced me that I was not cut out to be a wife. Votes: 0

When the vast baby-boom generation exploded into adolescence in the 1960s, marketers exulted. Advertising consultants, always eager to coin a phrase, began happily explaining to corporations the difference between 'teenyboppers' and 'counterculture consumers.' Votes: 0

In my adolescence, I think I felt very outcast; I felt lonely. I felt great loneliness, and sometimes I wouldn't partake in Christmas, and I would go off and wander in the streets of Melbourne. Votes: 0

I was always storytelling, since I was a child. I remember myself at 10 years old telling stories to my sisters and brother. This is something I did through my adolescence and even through my twenties. Votes: 0

This is no time to let down our guard on youth violence. Research demonstrates that appropriate interventions made during or prior to adolescence can direct young people away from violence toward healthy and constructive lives. Votes: 0