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Adolescence Quotes

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Adolescence is like cactus.
Anais Nin

Youth is like a prickly pear.
Authors on Adolescence Quotes: Erma Bombeck Paulo Coelho Greg Kinnear Virginia Satir Elvis Presley Louise J. Kaplan Mary Pipher Margaret Deland Andy Warhol John Irving Natalia Ginzburg David Gerrold Gus Van Sant Richard Armour Mary Tyler Moore George Alec Effinger William James Paula Danziger Jose Ortega y Gasset Jack Driscoll Don Henley Henry Rollins Sophia Loren Ben Mendelsohn Max Lerner George Carlin Walker Percy Joss Whedon Kate Beckinsale Christina Ricci Jay Saunders Redding Sue Townsend Carrie Fisher
2.
When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.
Max Lerner

3.
Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.
Louise J. Kaplan

4.
Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

5.
If God wanted a world filled with saints, He never would have created adolescence.
Susan Beth Pfeffer

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

7.
My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted.
Walker Percy

8.
So much alarmed that she is quite alarming
Lord Byron

9.
When you're lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.
Erma Bombeck

10.
Adolescence isn't a period; it's a coma.
Richard Armour

11.
I went through an awkward adolescence and had braces.
Christina Ricci

12.
My fear is that I will be crushed in an elevator and my mother will get hold of my journals from my adolescence.
Carrie Fisher

13.
My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.
Peter Shaffer

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Looking younger and being younger is the adolescence idea.
Andy Warhol

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Adolescence is that time in your life when you discover your ability to be depressed.
David Gerrold

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In adolescence you have to separate yourself and establish your identity. So, being very independent anyway, I took charge.
George Carlin

17.
One doesn't remain a teenager forever.
Mariah Carey

18.
The mentality of an army on the march is merely so much delayed adolescence; it remains persistently, incorrigibly and notoriously infantile.
Albert J. Nock

19.
I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.
Suzanne Collins

20.
Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy.
Virginia Satir

21.
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

22.
True love comes along after adolescence, when we have learned not to cry for nothing.
Sophia Loren

23.
I wanted to make a body of work that looked at what it felt like to be a boy going through adolescence.
Polixeni Papapetrou

24.
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

25.
Teenagers are my life and my triumph. I'd be nowhere without them.
Elvis Presley

26.
Adolescence is a kind of slavery cleverly disguised as freedom.
Mardy Grothe

27.
My adolescence was all tits and champagne. I'm downplaying the magic of it all.
Greg Kinnear

28.
In adolescence she thought it was too early to choose, now in youth she was convinced it was too late to change.
Paulo Coelho

29.
nothing is as conventional as adolescence.
Margaret Deland

30.
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

31.
A part of adolescence is feelimg that there's no one else around who's enough like youself to understand you.
John Irving

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Our teen-agers withdrew to their bedrooms on their thirteenth birthday and didn't show themselves to us again until it was time to get married.
Erma Bombeck

33.
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

34.
she wanted to dance with someone who would embrace her in the way she dreamed of since adolescence.
Paulo Coelho

35.
The truth remains that, after adolescence has begun, "words, words, words," must constitute a large part, and an always larger part as life advances, of what the human being has to learn.
William James

36.
Premature burial works just fine as a cure for adolescence.
George Alec Effinger

37.
Adolescence has such a negative connotation and it shouldn't. It's experimentation, it's being unsure, no preconceived notions.
Mary Tyler Moore

38.
We live a protracted adolescence. At some point you must leave the party.
Don Henley

39.
I joke sometimes that I live a protracted adolescence, that a part of me will always be twelve years old.
Jack Driscoll

40.
You can certainly extend your adolescence. There's people that are very good at extending it indefinitely.
Ben Mendelsohn

41.
Adolescence is a plague on the senses.
Henry Rollins

42.
I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
Kate Beckinsale

43.
Everybody who made it through adolescence is a hero.
Joss Whedon

44.
From adolescence to death there is something very personal about being a Negro in America.
Jay Saunders Redding

45.
Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.
Tayari Jones

46.
In our house we say 'adolescence' is a western word. We don't believe in it.
Mira Nair

47.
L'adolescence est le seul temps o u' l'on ait appris quelque chose. Adolescence is the only time when we can learn something.
Marcel Proust

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

49.
I spent my whole adolescence, when you just want to be accepted, looking much younger than everyone else.
Jenna Fischer

50.
Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
Benedict Cumberbatch