Adolescence Quotes

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

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.

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

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.

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

Premature burial works just fine as a cure for adolescence.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives, through adolescence, and while they are trying to work out who they are as people, never mind as a dancer. So train the whole person, not just the dancer.

I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It's embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness.

When you have little girls, you're the coolest person in the world. I know at some point that's going to end; in their adolescence I'll become the opposite of that, especially if I'm parked outside a high school party.

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.

Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974.

One's teachers all belonged to that generation who were imperialists, and the whole narrative throughout my adolescence was of countries leaving the empire. I find it extraordinary that this purpose which drove how we viewed the world is now considered to be something that has no effect upon us.

Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence.

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

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

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

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

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.

I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay of the odds that I might live for a while, that I can sleep it off.

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

What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.

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

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

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