Adolescence Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

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

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

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

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

Premature burial works just fine as a cure for 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.

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

Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.

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.