Adolescence Quotes - Page 16

• Content without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Style, Propaganda, Decadence

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.83, Bantam

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• The one thing I would like to get across about my whole feeling regarding high school is how I was when I was fifteen. Gawky. Always a hem hanging down, or strap loose, or a pimple on my chin. I never knew what to do with my hair. I was a mess. And I still carry that fifteen-year-old girl around now. A piece of me still believes I'm the girl nobody dances with.

  Nora Ephron

  Girl, Believe, School

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• I was never a big fashion person, and so I'm sure I wore whatever. I was growing, and so I just wore whatever clothes that weren't that expensive and made sense at the time. But I'm sure that I look back and say, 'What was I thinking?' My adolescence was more in the '80s, and that's more my cross to bear.

  Vince Vaughn

  Fashion, Thinking, Clothes

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• My father worked for the Foreign Office, so he was away a lot of the time. We were a very volatile family. There was a lot of love and a lot of conflict. The conflict kicked in mostly during my adolescence.

  Amanda Donohoe

  Father, Office, Conflict

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• If you have older children who avoid you like the plague, buy yourself some expensive bath salts, run a hot tub, and settle in for a long soak. Teenagers who haven't talked to you since their tenth birthday will bang on the door, demanding your immediate attention.

  Teresa Bloomingdale

  Running, Children, Teenager

  Teresa Bloomingdale (1982). “Murphy must have been a mother!: (and other laws I live by)”, Doubleday Books

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• If pornographers can hook adolescents when their hormones are raging, they know they'll have an ongoing consumer base for life.

  Donna Rice Hughes

  Hook, Ongoing, Rage

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• I feel I'm trying to get this really crap car going, and it just keeps stalling on me. And then other times I feel like my life's a train thundering toward me, and I'm in a car stuck on the crossroads and can't get out. Isn't it great being young!

  Julie Burchill

  Car, Trying, Crossroads

  Julie Burchill (2016). “Sugar Rush”, p.5, Pan Macmillan

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• Love is the only thing that keeps me sane.

  Sue Townsend

  Love Is, Fighting On, Boxing

  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

  Interesting, Diaries, Journal

  Sue Townsend (1994). “Adrian Mole, the lost years”, Soho Pr Inc

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• Young people want to look like peas in a pod, and there is no use trying to make them different.

  Ilka Chase

  Peas In A Pod, People, Trying

  Ilka Chase (1945). “Past Imperfect”, Pocket Books of Canada

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• It's no surprise to me that intellectuals commit suicide, go mad or die from drink. We feel things more than other people. We know the world is rotten and that chins are ruined by spots.

  Sue Townsend

  Suicide, People, Mad

  Sue Townsend (1991). “Adrian Mole, from Minor to Major: The Mole Diaries : the First Ten Years”

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• although it has been said that idle hands are the devil's workshop, when it comes to teenagers, both idle and active hands are the devil's workshop.

  Amy Sedaris

  Teenager, Hands, Devil

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• nothing is as conventional as adolescence.

  Margaret Deland

  Conventional

  Margaret Deland (2015). “The Iron Woman”, p.63, The Floating Press

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• Children from ten to twenty don't want to be understood. Their whole ambition is to feel strange and alien and misinterpreted so that they can live austerely in some stone tower of adolescence, their privacies unviolated.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Children, Ambition, Twenties

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• It turned out to be impossible for me to 'run away' in the sense other American teenagers did. Any movement at all was taken for progress in my family.

  Mary Karr

  Family, Running, Teenager

  Mary Karr (2015). “The Liars' Club: A Memoir (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.54, Penguin

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• Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of identity, in a perpetual maze of seeking and of finding, of passion and of disillusion, of vague longings and of nameless griefs, of pity that is a blade in the heart, and of 'all the little emptiness of love.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Grief, Passion, Heart

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• Youth asks no greater privilege than to fight its own battles. It is mistaken kindness to shield - it weakens one in the years to come.

  Myrtle Reed

  Kindness, Fighting, Years

  Myrtle Reed, Mary Badollet Powell (1911). “The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed”

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• One thing is certain: for many of those who came back from WWII, the music of Frank Sinatra was no consolation for their losses. Some had lost friends. Some had lost wives and lovers. All had lost portions of their youth. More important to the Sinatra career the girls started marrying the men who came home. Bobby socks vanished from many closets. The girls who wore them had no need anymore for imaginary lovers; they had husbands. Nothing is more embarrassing to grownups than the passions of adolescence, and for many, Frank Sinatra was the passion.

  Pete Hamill

  Girl, Husband, Passion

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• After puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious.... Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely during this second period, when it is too late.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Children, Responsibility, Personality

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• They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their sympathy and their kind-hearted jokes, it would only make me want to scream all the more. If I talk, everyone thinks I'm showing off; when I'm silent they think I'm ridiculous; rude if I answer, sly if I get a good idea, lazy if I'm tired, selfish if I eat a mouthful more than I should, stupid, cowardly, crafty, etc. etc.

  Anne Frank

  Stupid, Selfish, Tired

  Anne Frank (1993). “Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl”, Bantam

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• She knew the intensity of adolescence, and knew no cure for it except growing up. And then one has age and experience, and mourns the loss of intensity. Maybe it's why musicians and mathmaticians are said to peak young-poetry needs the fire of an unbounded universe.

  Sara Paretsky

  Growing Up, Writing, Loss

  Sara Paretsky (2008). “Bleeding Kansas”, p.240, Penguin

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• Everybody who made it through adolescence is a hero.

  Joss Whedon

  Hero, Made, Made It

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 5, 2001.

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• In adolescence, it's 'How do I fit in?' In your 20s, 'What do I want to do?' Your 30s, 'Is this what I'm meant to do?' I think the trick is living the questions. Not worrying so much about what's ahead but rather sitting in the gray area; being okay with where you are. If you can find the parity between 'Where am I going?' and 'What's my purpose?' you've got two pretty solid pillars for your coffee table.

  Chris Pine

  Coffee, Thinking, Two

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

  Randy Quaid

  Want, Tied, Delayed

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• Skateboarding is forever, and things like college and girls only ruin an endlessly savored adolescence.

  Roger Ebert

  Girl, College, Forever

  Roger Ebert (2005). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2006”, p.254, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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