Adolescence Quotes

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

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

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

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.

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.

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

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

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

What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.

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

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

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

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 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.

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

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

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

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

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

Premature burial works just fine as a cure for 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.

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

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.

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 went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.

Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.

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.

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.

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

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.