Adolescent Quotes

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.
Alden Nowlan

Wise, Child, Himself

To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.
Dave Barry

Nothing, Parent

Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk.
Michael J. Fox

Parents, Brain, Enough

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.
Charles Caleb Colton

Time, Stop, Fifty

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
Gertrude Stein

Family, Dream, Destroy

In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.
Jessica Savitch

Marriage, Children, Job

It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting these adolescent scenes.
Diablo Cody

Hope, Find, Possible

As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.
Charles de Gaulle

Life, Through, Trials

No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.
Marcelene Cox

Character, True, Until

I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.
Harold Pinter

Great, War, Second

If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education.
Jane Fonda

Education, Two, Become

I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself.
Jane Fonda

Love, Felt, Empty

There's only one thing harder than living in a home with an adolescent - and that's being an adolescent. The moodiness, the volatility, the wholesale lack of impulse control, all would be close to clinical conditions if they occurred at another point in life. In adolescence, they're just part of the behavioral portfolio.
Jeffrey Kluger

Life, Home, Control

When it comes to raising civilized kids there are no hard rules, but there are two things on which most parents agree: Boys are generally wilder than girls, and adolescents are wilder than kids of any other age. If you've got an adolescent boy, you're in the sweet spot for trouble.
Jeffrey Kluger

Age, Parents, Hard

Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists.
J. G. Ballard

Career, Become, Wanted

I was - I've always been a bit of perpetual adolescent.
Rick Springfield

I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
Kate Beckinsale

Felt, Available, Breakdown

As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.
Umberto Eco

Read, Books, Africa

An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.
Andrew Greeley

Experience, Through, Enough

I've sometimes thought that it's only by recalling that desperate devotion my kids once felt for me that I can maintain my own desperate devotion in the face of their adolescent sneering.
Ayelet Waldman

Thought, Sometimes, Kids

Young women, adolescent girls, are more subject to infection, sometimes at a rate of six times that of boys. That tells you a lot about the vulnerability of women.
Stephen Lewis

Women, Young, Sometimes

I do turn down things that I feel aren't right for me, like when it's some kind of adolescent thing that might typecast me, but I'm not worried about it.
Selma Blair

Down, Might, Turn

I think that is a universal adolescent feeling, trying to find your place. The adolescent who is perfectly adjusted to his environment, I've yet to meet.
Roger Bannister

Feeling, Trying, Find

The early Stones were adolescent rockers. They were self-conscious in an obvious and unpretentious way. And they were committed to a musical style that needed no justification because it came so naturally to them. As they grew musically the mere repetition of old rock and blues tunes became increasingly less satisfying.
Jon Landau

Rock, Old, Less

Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.
James Broughton

Sadness, End, Find

It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.
Anna Chlumsky

School, Acting, Easy

The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education.
James S. Coleman

Education, Social, High

I didn't get at first put into a rehab facility; I got put in a adolescent psychiatric unit for my detox.
Jack Osbourne

Put, Rehab, Detox

Part of getting older is realizing that you can integrate all these different areas of your life, rather than the adolescent mindset, which for me lasted a long time, which says, 'It's all or nothing.'
Chris Robinson

Life, Time, Long

Germany is in terrible condition this year. This is particularly true of the working masses, who are so undernourished that tuberculosis is having a rich harvest, particularly of adolescent children.
Agnes Smedley

True, Children, Working

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