Adolescent Quotes

As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.

To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.

Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists.

I am not an adolescent, nor a romantic. I analyze objectively.

If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge.

I think that is a universal adolescent feeling, trying to find your place. The adolescent who is perfectly adjusted to his environment, I've yet to meet.

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.

As an adolescent, Spider-Man was what got me through tough times in terms of being a skinny kid.

If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education.

I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure.

The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not.

As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.

It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.

No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.

It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is at most of minor importance in giving status or prestige to an adolescent in the eyes of other adolescents.

Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.

Young women, adolescent girls, are more subject to infection, sometimes at a rate of six times that of boys. That tells you a lot about the vulnerability of women.

Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk.

People fantasize about being a hero and helping someone in trouble. Batman is that fantasy realized-not just for Bruce Wayne, but for the audience. Inwardly, Bruce Wayne is still an adolescent watching his parents being murdered. That will never leave him. And people really relate to that.

I had to be intellectually satisfied as well as emotionally because at that time of life one doesn't just fall into it in adolescent emotion, and I was satisfied at every point that it was the one way and the hard way to do things.

In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.

I do turn down things that I feel aren't right for me, like when it's some kind of adolescent thing that might typecast me, but I'm not worried about it.

Germany is in terrible condition this year. This is particularly true of the working masses, who are so undernourished that tuberculosis is having a rich harvest, particularly of adolescent children.

There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.

I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.

I didn't get at first put into a rehab facility; I got put in a adolescent psychiatric unit for my detox.

I was - I've always been a bit of perpetual adolescent.

The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education.