Anais Nin
Writer, Diarist
"Adolescence is like cactus."
Adolescence quotes
Adolescence
55 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Walker Percy
Author, Novelist
"My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted."
Lord Byron
Poet, Novelist
"So much alarmed that she is quite alarming"
Erma Bombeck
Humorist, Writer
"When you're lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility."
Andy Warhol
Artist, Filmmaker
"Looking younger and being younger is the adolescence idea."
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"In adolescence you have to separate yourself and establish your identity. So, being very independent anyway, I took charge."
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"Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy."
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"All any grownup expects of an adolescent is that he act like an adult and be satisfied to be treated like a child."
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"Teenagers are my life and my triumph. I'd be nowhere without them."
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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."
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"she wanted to dance with someone who would embrace her in the way she dreamed of since adolescence."
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"Our teen-agers withdrew to their bedrooms on their thirteenth birthday and didn't show themselves to us again until it was time to get married."
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"The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs."
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"The truth remains that, after adolescence has begun, "words, words, words," must constitute a large part, and an always larger part as life advances, of what the human being has to learn."
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"L'adolescence est le seul temps o u' l'on ait appris quelque chose. Adolescence is the only time when we can learn something."
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"Adolescence is a plague on the senses."
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"High school was great when it ended."
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