Adolescence Quotes - Page 17

• The experience of being in between-between the time we leave home and arrive at our destination; between the time we leave adolescence and arrive at adulthood; between the time we leave doubt and arrive at faith. It is like the time when a trapeze artist lets go the bars and hangs in midair, ready to catch another support: it is a time of danger, of expectation, of uncertainty, of excitement, or extraordinary aliveness.

  Paul Tournier

  Letting Go, Home, Artist

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• Although I was well past my teenage troubles, our music was specifically designed to lubricate the passage from adolescence to adulthood.

  Pete Townshend

  Teenage, Past, Trouble

  "Spokesman for a generation", www.cnn.com. January 14, 2003.

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• When we begin to love and respect Great Mother Nature's gift to us of gayness, we'll discover that the bondage of our childhood and adolescence in the trials and tribulations of neitherness was actually an apprenticeship for teaching her children new cutting edges of consciousness and social change. In stunning paradox, our neitherness is our talisman, our fairie wand, our gift we bring to the hetero world to....transform their pain into healings; ...transform their tears to laughter: ...transform their hand-me-downs to visions of loveliness.

  Harry Hay

  Mother, Pain, Laughter

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• Personally I feel that real rock 'n' roll may be on the way out, just like adolescence as a relatively innocent transitional period is on the way out. What we have instead is a small island of new free music surrounded by some good reworkings of past idioms and a vast sargasso sea of absolute garbage.

  Lester Bangs

  Real, Past, Islands

  Lester Bangs (2013). “Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll”, p.74, Anchor

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• Something dramatic happens to girls in early adolescence. Just as planes and ships disappear mysteriously into the Bermuda Triangle, so do the selves of girls go down in droves.

  Mary Pipher

  Girl, Self, Triangles

  Mary Pipher (2005). “Reviving Ophelia”, p.14, Penguin

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• Rebelliousness really is the province of young people-that kind of iconoclasm.

  Steve Martin

  People, Iconoclasm, Kind

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• I was... the loser of my class. I had absolutely no friends.

  Neve Campbell

  Class, No Friends, Loser

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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.

  John Grant

  Children, Adults, Satisfied

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• One doesn't remain a teenager forever.

  Mariah Carey

  Teenager, Forever

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• I would dye my hair every week. I wanted to be a really goth teenager.

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Teenager, Hair, Goth

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• Thank God I had two parents who loved me enough to stay on my case.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Two, Parent, Thank God

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• Everyone who deals with teens seems to agree that the most important and toughest job is staying in connection and conversation ... not delivering a lecture but saying what we think.

  Ellen Goodman

  Jobs, Thinking, Important

  Ellen Goodman (2010). “Paper Trail: Common Sense in Uncommon Times”, p.327, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the traps of adolescence is the sort of paranoid resentment that somehow you're never going to match up and that everybody else's life is going to be better and finer and fuller. That everyone else attended some secret lesson in which how to live was taught and you had a dental appointment that day, or you were somehow not invited. And the point of great writers like Wilde is that they make that invitation to you.

  Stephen Fry

  Secret, Lessons, Taught

  "Stephen Fry's Idea of Greatness". bigthink.com. December 8, 2009.

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• Without beauty a girl is unhappy because she has missed her chance to be loved. People do not jeer at her, they are not cruel to her, but it is as if she were invisible, no eyes follow her as she walks. People feel uncomfortable when they are with her. They find it easier to ignore her. A girl who is exceptionally beautiful, on the other hand, who has something which too far surpasses the customary seductive freshness of adolescence, appears somehow unreal. Great beauty seems invariably to portend some tragic fate.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Beautiful, Girl, Eye

  Michel Houellebecq (2001). “The Elementary Particles”, p.61, Vintage

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• Normal men retain their childish longing for a woman to mother them. At adolescence a new desire is added. They want a girl to allure them. When you put these two together, you have the typical male yearning that Wonder Woman satisfies.

  William Moulton Marston

  Girl, Mother, Men

  "Men Of Tomorrow". Book by Gerard Jones, October 12, 2004.

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• If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you.

  Toni Morrison

  Learning, Cheat, Beats

  Toni Morrison (2014). “Beloved”, Random House

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• Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy.

  Virginia Satir

  Easy, Stage, Negotiating

  Virginia Satir (1988). “The new peoplemaking”, Science & Behavior Books

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• I do not agree with this century's fashion of running down the human species as a failed try, a doomed sport. At our worst, we may be going through the early stages of adolescence, and everyone remembers what that is like.

  Lewis Thomas

  Sports, Running, Fashion

  Lewis Thomas (1996). “Fragile Species”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren't cool, just to establish themselves. That's what adolescence is about. They're gonna go through that no matter what.

  Eddie Vedder

  Mom, Dad, Kids

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• Sex begins before adolescence, and survives sterility; it is indeed coeval with our lives, although at the mating age its effects are more obvious to Society.

  E. M. Forster

  Sex, Age, Mating

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.78, RosettaBooks

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• Adolescence begins when children stop asking questions-because they know all the answers.

  Evan Esar

  Funny, Children, Asking Questions

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• I remember adolescence, the years of having the impulse control of a mousetrap, of being as private as a safe-deposit box.

  Anna Quindlen

  Impulse Control, Years, Safe

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• Fourteen-year-old, why must you giggle and dote,
  Fourteen-year-old, why are you such a goat?
  I'm fourteen years old, that is the reason,
  I giggle and dote in season.

  Stevie Smith

  Years, Goats, Reason

  Stevie Smith (1988). “New Selected Poems of Stevie Smith”, p.36, New Directions Publishing

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• Most adults would not dream of belittling, humiliating, or bullying (verbally or physically) another adult. But many of the same adults think nothing of treating their adolescent child like a nonperson. . . . Adolescents deserve the same civility their parents routinely extend to total strangers.

  Laurence Steinberg

  Dream, Bullying, Children

  Laurence Steinberg (2011). “You and Your Adolescent, New and Revised edition: The Essential Guide for Ages 10-25”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• Adolescence is a time when children are supposed to move away from parents who are holding firm and protective behind them. When the parents disconnect, the children have no base to move away from or return to. They aren't ready to face the world alone. With divorce, adolescents feel abandoned, and they are outraged at that abandonment. They are angry at both parents for letting them down. Often they feel that their parents broke the rules and so now they can too.

  Mary Pipher

  Children, Moving, Divorce

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