Adolescence Quotes - Page 2

• Adolescence is a kind of slavery cleverly disguised as freedom.

  Mardy Grothe

  Slavery, Kind

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• Many children grow through adolescence with no ripples whatever and land smoothly and predictably in the adult world with both feet on the ground. Some who have stumbled and bumbled through childhood suddenly burst into bloom. Most shake, steady themselves, zigzag, fight, retreat, pick up, take new bearings, and finally find their own true balance.

  Stella Chess

  Children, Fighting, Land

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• Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.

  Max Lerner

  Art, Teenage, Fall

  Max Lerner (1959). “The Unfinished Country”

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• Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.

  David Elkind

  Inspirational, Teenager, Choices

  David Elkind (1994). “Parenting Your Teenager”

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• 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

  Mean, Bumps, Bruises

  "X Appeal", www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2000.

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• One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Success, Congratulations

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• As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Social Studies "Tips for Teens" (1981)

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• Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.

  Carol Burnett

  Inspirational, Teenage, Pimples

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• I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.

  Robert Cormier

  Inspirational, Teenager, Teens

  Interview with Lyn Gardner, www.theguardian.com. November 05, 2000.

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• Teenagers complain there's nothing to do, then stay out all night doing it.

  Bob Phillips

  Inspirational, Teenage, Night

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• Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Teenager, Childhood, Adulthood

  Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books

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• Adolescence as the time when an individual ‘recapitulates’ the savage stage of the race’s past.

  G. Stanley Hall

  Past, Race, Savages

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• Adolescence is like cactus.

  Anais Nin

  Cactus

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• Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974.

  Jose Saramago

  Thinking, Political, Atmosphere

  "Interview with Jose Saramago, Author of Blindness". Political Affairs Magazine Interview, www.politicalaffairs.net. March 2006.

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

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Inspirational, Sympathy, Children

  Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books

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• What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.

  Georges Bernanos

  Teenage, Knowing, Bird

  Georges Bernanos, Rémy Rougeau (2002). “The Diary of a Country Priest”, p.123, Da Capo Press

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• 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

  Children, Health, Important

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• Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.

  Jena Malone

  Inspirational, Teenage, Teens

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• Adolescence: The stage between puberty and adultery.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Cynical, Adultery, Cynicism

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• Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.

  Harold Bloom

  Falling In Love, Real, Reading

  "Harold Bloom, The Art of Criticism No. 1". Interview with Antonio Weiss in The Paris Review, Issue 118, www.theparisreview.org. Spring 1991.

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• I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay of the odds that I might live for a while, that I can sleep it off.

  Harold Brodkey

  Sleep, Odds, Decay

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• Kids want acceptance from their peers, but in two different, opposing ways: They want to be like everyone else and they want to be different from everyone else. So the question is: How do you reconcile these opposing longings?

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Children, Kids, Acceptance

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• Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Poetry Is

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• Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.

  Doug Larson

  Inspirational, Funny, Children

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• Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunities for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.

  Eric Hoffer

  Life, Book, Learning

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