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)
Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion. (Quote by - Louise J. Kaplan)
It is really important to keep in mind that puberty is the biology of change and adolescence is the socio-cultural reflection of that, and in the United States we take a very long time with our adolescence. I think that the extent to which brain development is influenced by environment, we would see a very different pattern in adolescence, certainly in European adults and probably strikingly different in other cultures as well. (Quote by - Abigail Baird)
Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood. (Quote by - Louise J. Kaplan)
Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts. (Quote by - Mary Pipher)
The overwhelmingly successful trial book of my early adolescence had been To Kill A Mocking Bird. (Quote by - Scott Turow)
Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next. (Quote by - Cesare Pavese)
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. (Quote by - Nora Ephron)
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. (Quote by - Camille Paglia)
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. (Quote by - Maya Lin)
At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence? (Quote by - Jules Feiffer)
By the time people reach adulthood, they really don't want to have acne. In adolescence, everybody seems to have acne. My adult patients look around and say, 'I'm the only one who's breaking out. (Quote by - Kristine Romine)
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.' (Quote by - Daniel Clowes)
In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics. Now, on the contrary, I enjoy life; I might almost say that with every year that passes I enjoy it more. (Quote by - Bertrand Arthur William Russell)
Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for. (Quote by - Rex Stout)
The mentality of an army on the march is merely so much delayed adolescence; it remains persistently, incorrigibly and notoriously infantile. (Quote by - Albert Jay Nock)
There are pretty strong research findings that once girls hit adolescence, their rates of depression are higher than the rate in boys and men. (Quote by - Dr. Erika Ryst)
There are times when weight gain slows down and speeds up. That's perfectly normal in teenagers. But it is definitely, absolutely a danger sign if a youngster is losing weight during adolescence. (Quote by - Steve Bloomfield)
Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future. (Quote by - Coco Chanel)
Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born. (Quote by - G. Stanley Hall)
You do not have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. (Quote by - John Ciardi)
My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London. (Quote by - Peter Shaffer)
Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity. (Quote by - F. Scott Fitzgerald)
It is surprising that in early adolescence there is already evidence of this change, ... The fact that that is apparent even in young adolescents is of great concern. (Quote by - JoAnn Manson)
Adolescence, the stage between puberty and adultery. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies. (Quote by - Stanislav Grof)
Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past. (Quote by - Granville Stanley Hall)
Adolescence is just one big walking pimple. (Quote by - Carol Burnett)
Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses. (Quote by - Jena Malone)
Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunities for action in all spheres of life.dolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
Paraguay remains a country in gestation. We still haven't reached national maturation. We are in our adolescence and, consequently, full of fears and ghosts. (Quote by - Oscar Torres)
Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved. (Quote by - Jose Ortega Y Gasset)
Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility. (Quote by - Terri Apter)
Although I was well past my teenage troubles, our music was specifically designed to lubricate the passage from adolescence to adulthood, (Quote by - Pete Townshend)
Our children are less of a risk than any other adolescence. We provide them with constant supervision. (Quote by - Shawna Egan)
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. (Quote by - Jeanne Elium)
There is a weirdness about having a famous pre-pubescent in the house when you are going through the trials and tribulations of adolescence. (Quote by - Danny Bonaduce)
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. (Quote by - Deborah Bull)
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. (Quote by - Harold Bloom)
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. (Quote by - Arthur Miller)
It's a wake-up call that although we've been investing a lot in adolescence, we can't stop thinking about the health of our young people when they leave adolescence. (Quote by - Christine Bachrach)
I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence. (Quote by - Brooke Shields)
School counselors are the first line of support for students. Students can't achieve academically when they can't cope with social and emotional problems. School counselors can help guide students in their journey through childhood and adolescence. (Quote by - Richard Wong)
Radio wasn't outside our lives. It coincided with and helped to shape our childhood and adolescence. As we slogged toward maturity, it also grew up and turned into television, leaving behind, like dead skin, transistorized talk-radio and nonstop music... (Quote by - Vincent Canby)
Premature burial works just fine as a cure for adolescence. (Quote by - George Alec Effinger)
The study findings suggest that depression or elevated depressive symptoms during adolescence may, at the very least, be a red flag or marker for girls' increased risk of experiencing violence by a relationship partner during young adulthood. (Quote by - Jocelyn Lehrer)
Maturity is only a short break in adolescence. (Quote by - Jules Feiffer)
Adolescence is when children start trying to bring up their parents. (Quote by - Richard Armour)
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. (Quote by - Michel Houellebecq)
Parents may feel that they don't matter to their teens, but this study indicates, they really do. It shows that such factors as not smoking, having good family management skills in setting rules and monitoring behavior, and having a strong emotional relationship with their children matter until the end of adolescence. (Quote by - Karl Hill)
Massachusetts is the first state in America to reach full adulthood. The rest of America is still in adolescence. (Quote by - Uwe Reinhardt)
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. (Quote by - Louise J. Kaplan)
This is a study of girls during adolescence, from 9 to 19, which is an age range that has not been well studied. This is an age range when a lot of girls put on a lot of weight. (Quote by - Bruce Barton)
The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness. (Quote by - John Keats)
There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer. (Quote by - Edward Hoagland)
We were particularly interested in the transition into adolescence, which is critical for identity and for self-concept. Adolescence can also be a period of great stress for the family. So we wanted to know what skills and strengths the child is coming into that period with. (Quote by - Robyn Fivush)
