Adolescence Quotes

Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young ...

I also think of those daily slaughters along the highways, of that death that is as horrible as it i...

Yes, you're right. It's part of growing up, I suppose. You always have to leave something behind you...

Yes, you're right. It's part of growing up, I suppose. You always have to leave something behind you...

Nobody, she felt, understood her--not her mother, not her father, not her sister or brother, none of...

Jaques was only what he was; but from a distance he became something more, became everything to me, ...

No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all ...

It was bad, but what in high school is not? At the time we're stuck in it, like hostages locked in a...

I can do one of two things. I can be President of the United States or I can control Alice Roosevelt...

The faces of your young people in general are not interesting—I don't mean the children, but the you...

It was a major and deeply embarrassing teenage revelation. It must be how straight teenage boys feel...

I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in lif...

So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without ca...

Why, I wondered, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, who ought ther...

It’s hard not to be impatient with the absurdity of the young; they tell us that two and two make fo...

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

For as long as I could remember, I had been transparent to myself, unselfconscious, learning, doing,...

Outside the study hall the next fall, the fall of our senior year, the Nabisco plant baked sweet whi...

But I don't want to just believe it, I want it to be true.

The confusion boys experience about their identity is heightened during adolescence. In many ways th...

When a child reaches adolescence, there is very apt to be a conflict between parents and child, sinc...

It wasn't until we dropped him at his university dormitory and left him there looking touchingly los...

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who ha...

When you're in your twenties in a new city where no one's from here, we're all sort of orphans. The ...

How do you teach a classroom of Sybils who are breaking apart and reforming right in front of you?

If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must learn how to keep its adol...

He's taking the change well?" She asked.Except for getting a bit overtired. He's excited, but what 1...

We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of the...

I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is...

At seventeen, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take...

He'd possessed all the key elements of a school shooter: hormones, misery, ammunition. People wonder...

He'd possessed all the key elements of a school shooter: hormones, misery, ammunition. People wonder...

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

Most of the students there, he said, don't know what they think. You tell 'em, they'll think it. I p...

When you're a kid all you want to do is be somewhere else.

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

Cut privet still smells of sour apples, as it did when I was sixteen; but this is a rare, lingering ...

Felicity ignores us. She walks out to them, an apparition in white and blue velvet, her head held hi...

We're so happy, even when we're smiling out of fear.

I'm kind of over getting told to throw my hands up in the air,So there.