Top Adolescence Quotes

There is so much woman in many a girl and too much boy in many a man.

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

Adolescence Definition

(n.) The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals.

Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.

If, as PJ O'Rourke ones quipped, giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys, giving actual money and power to teenage boys (and girls) is as predictably d...

The confusion boys experience about their identity is heightened during adolescence. In many ways the fact that today's boy often has a wider range of emotional expression in early childhood, but if f...

Young people, however, tend to ignore the customs of their elders. Adolescent rebellion has been responsible for all manner of absurd costumes. The more ridiculous a certain fashion is, the more adole...

For the first time in my life, I actually wished that everyone was the same. And I despised myself for my "differentness" or "uniqueness" as an individual. In the world there are lots of social groups...

If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must learn how to keep its adolescents from imposing their tastes, values, and fantasies on everyday life.

Everything was brighter and more colorful in those years, as if my childhood was ending in an explosion of unreal passion that made my life feel sacred and holy.

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

But I could not fully admit it, even then. The way Suzanne's face looked as she watched him - I wanted to be with her. I thought that loving someone acted as a kind of protective measure, like they'd...

I learned that adults were not soaring gods, but rather back-yard birds with broken wingtips.When you are thirteen, about to free-fall into the real world, discovering the broken wingtips is terrifyin...

Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.

Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.

I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.

When You Live Life Too Early, You Learn Life Too Late.

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

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.