Adolescence Quotes

I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the last 10 years. I could probably tell you less what happened in the last 10 years. I remember what houses looked like, sometimes they just pop into my head.

I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.

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.

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

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

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

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

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

I'm quite comfortable looking at myself in movies, probably because I've been doing it for so long, since I was a kid. So I sort of watched myself grow up and go through adolescence, like, basically on camera.

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

When I was 14, I felt very rundown; I had a home to go to, but I felt like I was 60 or something, older than I feel now. And I don't know if it's something that happens at 14, or whether it was adolescence or whether I was gay, or closeted gay, or whatever it was, I felt that.

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

I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.

Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.

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

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.

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

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 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'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 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.