Adolescence Quotes

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.

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

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.

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.

One's teachers all belonged to that generation who were imperialists, and the whole narrative throughout my adolescence was of countries leaving the empire. I find it extraordinary that this purpose which drove how we viewed the world is now considered to be something that has no effect upon us.

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

Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence.

Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.

What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

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

Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

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.

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.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood.

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