Quotes of: Adolescence Keyword

As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid.

Will Self

The remnants of his adolescent vulnerability were all over his face.

Must Love Dogs

My whole adolescence has been on 'Game of Thrones;' I don't know what I'm going to do without it.

Sophie Turner

As my children leave the protected parameters of the bay called childhood and enter the wavier seas of adolescence, I'm starting to get seasick.

Kristin Armstrong

I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.

Kate Beckinsale

In America today, the percentage of children and adolescents who are defined as overweight is more than double what it was in the early 1970s.

Lois Capps

In adolescence students are suddenly turned loose on books worth reading, but generally don’t know how to read them.

Martin Buber

A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.

Ian Mcewan

For American filmmakers, the Oscars is like a mystic thing. For me, it was being in a mirror of my dreams when I was dreaming of Hollywood when I was an adolescent.

Bernardo Bertolucci

The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education.

James S. Coleman

If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education.

Jane Fonda

I didn't get at first put into a rehab facility; I got put in a adolescent psychiatric unit for my detox.

Jack Osbourne

When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.

Dan Hill

By the time I turned 12, I was a 5-foot 10-inch social disaster. Towering over my friends was the bane of my adolescence.

Sheri L. Dew

The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not.

Louise J. Kaplan

Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves.

Virginia Satir

Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.

Louise J. Kaplan

Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.

Rex Stout

With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.

Omar N. Bradley

'The Catcher in the Rye.' When I was a teenager, that was my book; yes, somebody gets it, somebody gets adolescence.

Libba Bray

My own experience being bullied - it made me a more compassionate person. It made me more sympathetic to the adolescent experience.

Carolyn Mackler