Quotes on Adolescence

Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.

Author: Carol Burnett

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

Author: Coco Chanel

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

Author: John Ciardi

The conflict between the need to belong to a group and the need to be seen as unique and individual is the dominant struggle of adolescence.

Author: Jeanne Elium

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

Author: David Elkind

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

Author: Jules Feiffer

Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

Author: G. Hall

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

Author: Louise Kaplan

Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.

Author: Louise Kaplan

I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with.

Author: Maya Lin

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Author: Art Linkletter

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

Author: Jena Malone

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.

Author: Jose Saramago

My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.

Author: Peter Shaffer

Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride.

Author: Ron Taffel

Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.

Author: Earl Wilson