Quotations on Adolescence 15 Quotes Found Displaying 1 through 15
Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility. - Terri Apter (Keywords: Society, Adolescence, Maturity) 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. - Joe Baca (Keywords: Education, Adolescence, School) What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence. - Martha Beck (Keywords: Sex, Adolescence, Childhood, Laughter) 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. - Harold Bloom (Keywords: Love, Adolescence, Criticism, Passion, Poems, Reading) 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. - Harold Brodkey (Keywords: Time, Adolescence, First, Sleep) 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. - Deborah Bull (Keywords: Time, Work, People, Adolescence, Mind, Training, Trying) I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence. - Robert Cormier (Keywords: Life, Adolescence, Pretty, Sense) 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. - Nora Ephron (Keywords: Health, Adolescence, Problems, Television, Will) I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies. - Stanislav Grof (Keywords: Movies, Art, Adolescence, Childhood) Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past. - Granville Stanley Hall (Keywords: Time, Adolescence, Past, Race) Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion. - Louise J. Kaplan (Keywords: Sympathy, Adolescence, Children, 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. - Harry Mathews (Keywords: Poetry, Adolescence, Writing) Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts. - Mary Pipher (Keywords: Experience, Adolescence, Gifts, Girls, Pressure) I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence. - Brooke Shields (Keywords: Daughter, Adolescence, Rebellion) 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. - Uma Thurman (Keywords: Life, Adolescence, First, Years)
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