Adolescence Quotes - Page 5

• Bringing up teenagers is like sweeping back ocean waves with a frazzled broom-the inundation of outside influences never stops. Whatever the lure-cars, easy money, cigarettes, drugs, booze, sex, crime-much that glitters along the shore has a thousand times the appeal of a parent's lecture.

  Mary Ellen Snodgrass

  Sex, Teenager, Ocean

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• In no order of things is adolescence the time of the simple life.

  Janet Erskine Stuart

  Simple, Order, Simple Life

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• Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence.

  Alice Thomas Ellis

  Innocence, Combination, Insolence

  Alice Thomas Ellis (1994). “The Summer House: A Trilogy”, Penguin Group USA

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• The independence and rebelliousness of our adolescence offer us yet another quality essential to our practice; the insistence that we find out the truth for ourselves, accepting no one's word above our own experience.

  Jack Kornfield

  Practice, Independence, Quality

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• If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.

  Al Bernstein

  Inspirational, Birthday, Teenage

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The age of puberty is a crisis in the age of man worth studying. It is the passage from the unconscious to the conscious; from thesleep of passions to their rage.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Passion, Men, Age

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• How strange that the young should always think the world is against them - when in fact that is the only time it is for them.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Inspirational, Teenage, Thinking

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.106, BookBaby

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• Growing up crowds your mind with new thoughts and new feelings so that you forget how you used to think and feel.

  Maureen Daly

  Growing Up, Thinking, Feelings

  Maureen Daly (2009). “Seventeenth Summer”, p.238, Simon and Schuster

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

  John Irving

  Like You, Enough

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• I'm a big people pleaser; I had a very awkward adolescence. Part of me is still that person who wants everyone to like me.

  Alissa Nutting

  People, Awkward, Want

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• The teenagers aren't all bad. I love 'em if nobody else does. There ain't nothing wrong with young people. Jus' quit lyin' to 'em.

  Moms Mabley

  Teenager, People, Doe

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• High school was great when it ended.

  Jennifer Stone

  School, High School

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• Perhaps the world progresses not by maturing, but by being in a permanent state of adolescence, of thrilled discovery.

  Julian Barnes

  Discovery, Progress, World

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• Fitzgerald never got rid of anything; the ghosts of his adolescence, the failures of his youth, the doubts of his maturity plagued him to the end. He was supremely a part of the world he described, so much a part that he made himself its king and then, when he saw it begin to crumble, he crumbled with it and led it to death.

  John Aldridge

  Kings, Writing, Maturity

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• If you enjoyed high school, you were probably a psychopath or a cheerleader. Or possibly both.

  Jenny Lawson

  School, Cheerleader, Psychopath

  Jenny Lawson (2012). “Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)”, p.43, Pan Macmillan

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• Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence.

  C. S. Lewis

  Childhood, Adults, Approval

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for which they know no anodyne.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Teenager, Land, Confusion

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• I did not write it [Coming of Age in Samoa] as a popular book, but only with the hope that it would be intelligible to those who might make the best use of its theme, that adolescence need not be the time of stress and strain which Western society made it; that growing up could be freer and easier and less complicated; and also that there were prices to pay for the very lack of complication I found in Samoa - less intensity, less individuality, less involvement with life.

  Margaret Mead

  Growing Up, Stress, Book

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• Teenagers are like cats - they have important business that doesn't involve mere humans.

  Julie Smith

  Teenager, Cat, Important

  Julie Smith (1997). “The Kindness of Strangers”, Fawcett

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• There's something so remarkable in the intensity of taking care of somebody who can't take care of him or herself. And then watching that little person bloom into adolescence.

  Bill Ayers

  Care, Littles, Intensity

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Bill Ayers". Interview with Rachel DeWoskin, therumpus.net. December 1, 2013.

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• We spend our whole lives recovering from high school.

  Paula Danziger

  School, Whole Life, Recovering

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• When you have three teenagers, it gives a whole new meaning to "homeland security."

  Bruce Springsteen

  Teenager, Giving, Three

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

  Paulo Coelho

  Too Late, Youth, Convinced

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• At a stage when young people want more than anything to be like everyone else, they find themselves the least alike. Everyone their age is growing and changing, but each at his or her own pace.

  Laurence Steinberg

  People, Age, Pace

  Laurence Steinberg (2011). “You and Your Adolescent, New and Revised edition: The Essential Guide for Ages 10-25”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• During adolescence, friends bring an intimate quality of support that can't be provided by any adult.

  Sara Shandler

  Friendship, Support, Quality

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