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Adolescence Quotes
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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. (Quote by - Uma Thurman)
Canada had a long adolescence as a country. This 1906 departure of the British has been overlooked for many years. . . . I think if we appreciate that this was one step on a long road to becoming a full country, then it is an event of importance that we should remember. (Quote by - John Johnston)
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. (Quote by - Ari Shavit)
Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough. (Quote by - Earl Wilson)
The four stages of a man are infancy, childhood, adolescence and obsolescence. (Quote by - Art Linkletter)
I absolutely remember where I was when I first heard it. It got me through adolescence. (Quote by - Patti Smith)
One has to bear in mind that during my childhood and adolescence, I suffered the repression of the Somoza dictatorship in every way: economically, socially, as well as at the hands of the police -- because if we went out on the street to play baseball, for example, the police would come and beat us up and put us in prison. (Quote by - Daniel Ortega)
So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition (Quote by - Theodore Roethke)
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. (Quote by - David Satcher)
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. (Quote by - Harold Brodkey)
I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence. (Quote by - Robert Cormier)
Adolescence is that time when I think, it can be- it's the cruelest place on Earth. It can really be heartless. (Quote by - Tori Amos)
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. (Quote by - Winona Ryder)
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. (Quote by - Georges Bernanos)