Adolescence famous quotes

The mentality of an army on the march is merely so much delayed adolescence; it remains persistently, incorrigibly and notoriously infantile.
-- Albert J. Nock

#Army #March #Adolescence

Adolescence is like cactus.
-- Anais Nin

#Cactus #Adolescence

You can certainly extend your adolescence. There's people that are very good at extending it indefinitely.
-- Ben Mendelsohn

#People #Very Good #Adolescence

I went through an awkward adolescence and had braces.
-- Christina Ricci

#Awkward #Braces #Adolescence

We live a protracted adolescence. At some point you must leave the party.
-- Don Henley

#Party #Adolescence

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

#Birth #Born #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.
-- Gus Van Sant

#Home #Gay #Adolescence

All the best human impulses can be traced back to adolescence.
-- Helene Deutsch

#All The Best #Impulse #Adolescence

I spent my whole adolescence, when you just want to be accepted, looking much younger than everyone else.
-- Jenna Fischer

#Want #Accepted #Adolescence

High school was great when it ended.
-- Jennifer Stone

#School #High School #Adolescence

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

#Children #Adults #Adolescence

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset

#Adolescence #Poetry Is

many of us are done with adolescence before we are done with adolescent love.
-- Judith Viorst

#Done #Adolescence

I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
-- Kate Beckinsale

#Found #Difficult #Adolescence

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.
-- Louise J. Kaplan

#Childhood #Adolescence #Adulthood

nothing is as conventional as adolescence.
-- Margaret Deland

#Adolescence

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

#Parent #Teens #Adolescence

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.
-- Max Lerner

#Teenage #Serious #Adolescence

In our house we say 'adolescence' is a western word. We don't believe in it.
-- Mira Nair

#Believe #House #Adolescence

We become adolescents when the words that adults exchange with one another become intelligible to us.
-- Natalia Ginzburg

#Adults #Adolescence

We spend our whole lives recovering from high school.
-- Paula Danziger

#School #Adolescence #Whole Life

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

#Childhood #London #Adolescence

I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family.
-- Randy Quaid

#Want #Adolescence #Delayed

Adolescence isn't a period; it's a coma.
-- Richard Armour

#Periods #Adolescence #Coma

True love comes along after adolescence, when we have learned not to cry for nothing.
-- Sophia Loren

#Cry #Adolescence

Love is the only thing that keeps me sane ...
-- Sue Townsend

#Love Is #Adolescence #Sane

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

#Interesting #Diaries #Adolescence

If God wanted a world filled with saints, He never would have created adolescence.
-- Susan Beth Pfeffer

#World #Saint #Adolescence

I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.
-- Suzanne Collins

#War #Writing #Adolescence

Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.
-- Tayari Jones

#Way #Modern #Adolescence

Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy.
-- Virginia Satir

#Easy #Stage #Adolescence

My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted.
-- Walker Percy

#Mother #Failing #Adolescence

Premature burial works just fine as a cure for adolescence.
-- George Alec Effinger

#Cures #Fine #Adolescence

I joke sometimes that I live a protracted adolescence, that a part of me will always be twelve years old.
-- Jack Driscoll

#Sometimes #Adolescence #Jokes

From adolescence to death there is something very personal about being a Negro in America.
-- Jay Saunders Redding

#America #Adolescence

Adolescence is a kind of slavery cleverly disguised as freedom.
-- Mardy Grothe

#Slavery #Kind #Adolescence

I wanted to make a body of work that looked at what it felt like to be a boy going through adolescence.
-- Polixeni Papapetrou

#Boys #Body #Adolescence