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Quotations on Adolescence 15 Quotes Found Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility. Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence. What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence. Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems. I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay of the odds that I might live for a while, that I can sleep it off. Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives, through adolescence, and while they are trying to work out who they are as people, never mind as a dancer. So train the whole person, not just the dancer. I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence. With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie. I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies. Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past. Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion. Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence. Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts. I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence. I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird. |
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