Adolescence Quotes - Page 15

• Traditionally parents have wondered what their teens were doing, but now teens are much more likely to be doing things that can get them killed.

  Mary Pipher

  Parent, Teens

  Mary Pipher (2005). “Reviving Ophelia”, p.21, Penguin

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• I am invariably and have been since adolescence inimical to the Republican mind which shows at the most inflated size the bad qualities of the bourgeoisie rather than the good qualities of the middle class which the Democrats call forth.

  Janet Flanner

  Class, Mind, Quality

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• My childhood, adolescence and high school days are unusually important. If there has ever been a time that I developed a uniqueness and sense of humor and the ability to organize, it was then. In those early days, I developed the skills that gave me a certain degree of success in American politics.

  Lee Atwater

  School, Skills, Childhood

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• The upheavals of adolescence silenced 'A Christmas Carol' for a few years. I became a firebrand atheist. Christmas - humbug! Too commercial! Then I became an agnostic. Christmas was a pro-forma affair, basically a chore. Buy mother a book, dad a new tie, my brother and sister small gifts. Pretend thanks for the fountain pens and shirts I received.

  Whitley Strieber

  Christmas, Mother, Brother

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• It seems that one moment I was this little kid only caring about animals and flowers and stuff, and then the next minute I was this raging stew of hormones. I don't know if you've ever been a raging stew of anything, but I wouldn't particularly recommend it.

  Julie Burchill

  Flower, Kids, Caring

  Julie Burchill (2016). “Sugar Rush”, p.4, Pan Macmillan

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• men change less than is imagined; their after life is only a kaleidescope combination of the elements of their character at the period of adolescence.

  Geraldine Jewsbury

  Character, Men, Life Is

  Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury (2009). “Zoe: The History of Two Lives”, p.173, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• My fear is that I will be crushed in an elevator and my mother will get hold of my journals from my adolescence.

  Carrie Fisher

  Mother, Elevators, Crushed

  "Q & A : Hollywood Times Three : Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher discuss Hollywood families, not-so-fictional novels--and baby Billie's there to chaperone". Interview with Hilary de Vries, articles.latimes.com. April 24, 1994.

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• Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive; imagination, not seldom, is sedate.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Imagination, Fancy, Youth

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Last Fruit Off an Old Tree”, p.123

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• The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs.

  Adrienne Rich

  Sexuality, Limbs

  Adrienne Rich (1994). “Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985”, p.83, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Adolescence-is it the first time in life we discover that we have something terrible to hide from those who love us?

  John Irving

  Firsts, First Time, Terrible

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• Ironically, when I hit adolescence, I was approached about modeling and acting all the time. And, for five years, I said, "No, I'm not interested. I want a simple life, I don't want to be in the spotlight."

  Evangeline Lilly

  Simple, Years, Acting

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• I was a lot younger - when I wrote Water Lilies. I was like 26. It felt so natural to write about adolescence.

  Celine Sciamma

  Writing, Water, Natural

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• I joke sometimes that I live a protracted adolescence, that a part of me will always be twelve years old.

  Jack Driscoll

  Sometimes, Jokes

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Something that had an enormous influence over my relationship with language was my stammer. I had a really bad stammer in my childhood and adolescence, and that imbues you with two things. First, a hyper-sensitivity to grammar, because a stammerer will have problematic sounds, impossible verbal stumbling blocks. Second, writing is just such a joy when you have a problem with speaking. It's so astonishing to watch language coming out of your pen without any hesitation or dysfluency.

  Maggie O'Farrell

  Block, Writing, Childhood

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think the category of perpetual adolescence, it's a new thing, and it's a dangerous thing. Adolescence is a pretty glorious concept. It's about intentionally transitioning from childhood to adulthood. Being stuck in adolescence - that's a hell. Peter Pan is a dystopia, and we forget that.

  Benjamin E. Sasse

  Thinking, Childhood, Forget

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• I was approaching adolescence. For some reason, I guess my mother thought it would be less crazy out in the suburbs, which it wasn't. I just think adolescence is hard for anyone.

  Nellie McKay

  Mother, Crazy, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In my journey to becoming an artist who writes, I tend to start my idea process with simple, concrete messages that relate to what kids may be experiencing as they navigate through childhood and adolescence putting together building blocks of the foundations on which they will become adults.

  Floyd Cooper

  Block, Kids, Writing

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• By the time I was in my early teens, we were able to move into a much more middle-class area. I had a comfortable adolescence.

  George Michael

  Moving, Class, Teens

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Until adolescence I thought I had the best mother in the world. Such a graceful mother. I had this fantasy that I was the wrong daughter.

  Carrie Fisher

  Daughter, Mother, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The main thing that I want to say is that I don't think women are at their most beautiful in their adolescence or in their early 20s.

  Nan Goldin

  Beautiful, Thinking, Want

  Source: foggysapphires.wordpress.com

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• My adolescence was all tits and champagne. I'm downplaying the magic of it all.

  Greg Kinnear

  Magic, Champagne

  "Good Humor Man". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. July 25, 2006.

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• One of the high points of my life was when I suddenly realized that this dream I had in my late adolescence of combining pure mathematics, very pure mathematics with very hard things which had been long a nuisance to scientists and to engineers, that this combination was possible and I put together this new geometry of nature, the fractal geometry of nature.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Dream, Long, Together

  Source: bigthink.com

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• It is not simply that these two cities are perched side by side at the edge of the Pacific; it is that adolescence sits next to middle age, and they don't know how to relate to each other. In a way, these two cities exist in different centuries. San Diego is a post-industrial city talking about settling down, slowing down, building clean industry. Tijuana is a preindustrial city talking about changing, moving forward, growing. Yet they form a single metropolitan area.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Moving, Talking, Cities

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The average age in the U.S. is now thirty-three, whereas Mexico gets younger and younger, retreats deeper and deeper into adolescence. Mexico is fifteen. Mexico is wearing a Hard Rock Cafe T-shirt and wandering around Tijuana looking for a job, for a date, for something to put on her face to take care of the acne.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Jobs, Average, Rocks

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Adolescents are like cockroaches: They come out the minute you leave town, crawl the walls, feed indiscriminately, reproduce alarmingly unless drugged, and will certainly outlast you.

  Gail Sheehy

  Wall, Cockroaches, Towns

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