Adolescent Quotes

In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.

I had to be intellectually satisfied as well as emotionally because at that time of life one doesn't just fall into it in adolescent emotion, and I was satisfied at every point that it was the one way and the hard way to do things.

Germany is in terrible condition this year. This is particularly true of the working masses, who are so undernourished that tuberculosis is having a rich harvest, particularly of adolescent children.

I do turn down things that I feel aren't right for me, like when it's some kind of adolescent thing that might typecast me, but I'm not worried about it.

I didn't get at first put into a rehab facility; I got put in a adolescent psychiatric unit for my detox.

There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.

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.

I was - I've always been a bit of perpetual adolescent.

The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education.

Part of getting older is realizing that you can integrate all these different areas of your life, rather than the adolescent mindset, which for me lasted a long time, which says, 'It's all or nothing.'

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.

I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn't skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years.

Typically diagnosed during childhood and adolescent years, juvenile diabetes, also referred to as Type I diabetes, currently affects more than 3 million Americans and more then 13,000 children are diagnosed each year.

I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself.

An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.

To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.

Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists.

As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.

I am not an adolescent, nor a romantic. I analyze objectively.

If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge.

I think that is a universal adolescent feeling, trying to find your place. The adolescent who is perfectly adjusted to his environment, I've yet to meet.

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.

As an adolescent, Spider-Man was what got me through tough times in terms of being a skinny kid.

I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure.

If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education.

As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.

The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not.

No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.

It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.