quotes about Adolescence
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The mentality of an army on the march is merely so much delayed adolescence; it remains persistently, incorrigibly and notoriously infantile.
-- Albert J. Nock -
You can certainly extend your adolescence. There's people that are very good at extending it indefinitely.
-- Ben Mendelsohn -
I went through an awkward adolescence and had braces.
-- Christina Ricci -
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We live a protracted adolescence. At some point you must leave the party.
-- Don Henley -
Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
-- G. Stanley HallSource : G. Stanley Hall (2013). “Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion (1931)”, p.12, Read Books Ltd
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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.
-- Gus Van Sant -
All the best human impulses can be traced back to adolescence.
-- Helene Deutsch -
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I spent my whole adolescence, when you just want to be accepted, looking much younger than everyone else.
-- Jenna Fischer -
All any grownup expects of an adolescent is that he act like an adult and be satisfied to be treated like a child.
-- John Grant -
Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset -
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many of us are done with adolescence before we are done with adolescent love.
-- Judith Viorst -
I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
-- Kate Beckinsale -
Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.
-- Louise J. KaplanSource : Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books
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nothing is as conventional as adolescence.
-- Margaret Deland -
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Traditionally parents have wondered what their teens were doing, but now teens are much more likely to be doing things that can get them killed.
-- Mary Pipher -
When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.
-- Max Lerner -
In our house we say 'adolescence' is a western word. We don't believe in it.
-- Mira Nair -
We become adolescents when the words that adults exchange with one another become intelligible to us.
-- Natalia GinzburgSource : Natalia Ginzburg (2016). “The Little Virtues”, p.76, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
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We spend our whole lives recovering from high school.
-- Paula Danziger -
My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.
-- Peter Shaffer -
I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family.
-- Randy Quaid -
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True love comes along after adolescence, when we have learned not to cry for nothing.
-- Sophia Loren -
Love is the only thing that keeps me sane ...
-- Sue TownsendSource : Sue Townsend (2013). “Townsend Plays: 1: Secret Diary of Adrian Mole; Womberang; Bazaar and Rummage; Groping for Words; Great Celestial Cow”, p.321, A&C Black
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I have decided to keep a full journal, in the hope that my life will perhaps seem more interesting when it is written down.
-- Sue Townsend -
If God wanted a world filled with saints, He never would have created adolescence.
-- Susan Beth PfefferSource : Susan Beth Pfeffer (2015). “The Life As We Knew It Collection”, p.426, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.
-- Suzanne Collins -
Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.
-- Tayari JonesSource : "Coming to the Festival of Books: Tayari Jones". Los Angeles Times Interview, latimesblogs.latimes.com. April 25, 2011.
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Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy.
-- Virginia Satir -
My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted.
-- Walker PercySource : Walker Percy (2011). “The Second Coming”, p.66, Open Road Media
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Premature burial works just fine as a cure for adolescence.
-- George Alec Effinger -
I joke sometimes that I live a protracted adolescence, that a part of me will always be twelve years old.
-- Jack DriscollSource : Source: therumpus.net
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From adolescence to death there is something very personal about being a Negro in America.
-- Jay Saunders Redding -
Adolescence is a kind of slavery cleverly disguised as freedom.
-- Mardy Grothe -
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I wanted to make a body of work that looked at what it felt like to be a boy going through adolescence.
-- Polixeni Papapetrou