Quotes of: Adolescence Keyword

It's the experts in adolescent development who wax most emphatic about the value of family meals, for it's in the teenage years that this daily investment pays some of its biggest dividends.

Nancy Gibbs

I don't think arrested-adolescent humor will fade. Maybe the form will change, but I guarantee its replacement will still be based in immature behavior from mature figures.

Adam McKay

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

It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting these adolescent scenes.

Diablo Cody

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

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

I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.

Aimee Bender

Adolescents are still children in that they can't yet tell the difference between make believe and fiction.

Heather O'Neill

Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.

James Broughton

If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge.

James S. Coleman

Just because I do what I do doesn't mean I escaped adolescence, all the bumps and bruises that go along with it.

Anna Paquin

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

If God wanted a world filled with saints, He never would have created adolescence.

The Dead and the Gone

...at some point we must achieve our identity -we can't be always in adolescence seeking who we are...

A Familiar Rain

Adolescence is like having only enough light to see the step directly in front of you.

The Girl Who Chased the Moon

The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.

J. G. Ballard

I may not have gone to high school every day, but I spent whole a lot of my adolescence feeling vulnerable and confused and alone... just like everybody else.

Michael Cera

I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.

Stanislav Grof

No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.

Moab is my Washpot

Biologists have an adolescent fascination with sex. Like teenagers they are embarrassed by the subject because of their ignorance.

The Language of Genes

Lisa blamed , and the preconceived notions about men (especially dangerous men) that it tended to form in the impressionable adolescent mind.

Terrorscape