Adolescent Quotes

There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.
Anita Diament

Good, Everything, America

If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge.
James S. Coleman

Challenge, Serious, Accept

It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is at most of minor importance in giving status or prestige to an adolescent in the eyes of other adolescents.
James S. Coleman

Giving, Eyes, Around

Even when I became the typical shy adolescent, I never minded performing. I felt there was a kind of safety, a protection about being on stage, about losing myself in another character.
Hayley Mills

Character, Another, Losing

While I've written in the POV (point of view) of adolescent characters before... I never have had to create novels in which those characters not only drive the plot, but also are instrumental in resolving whatever issue the plot deals with.
Elizabeth George

Before, Whatever, While

I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn't skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years.
Neil Peart

Good, Sports, Through

I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
Madeleine Peyroux

Important, Long, Artists

As an adolescent, I went to charm school, where I learned to pour tea and relate to boys, which, as I recall, meant giving them the pickle jar to unscrew, whether it was too hard for me or not.
Sue Monk Kidd

School, Hard, Giving

Music, especially as an adolescent, helps to build identity because that's when people start developing a sense of self. You can kind of tell based on what music a person listens to what kind of person they'll be pretty much for the rest of their life.
Aloe Blacc

Life, Music, Self

The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature.
Tayari Jones

American, Literature

As an adolescent, Spider-Man was what got me through tough times in terms of being a skinny kid.
Andrew Garfield

Through, Tough, Times

People fantasize about being a hero and helping someone in trouble. Batman is that fantasy realized-not just for Bruce Wayne, but for the audience. Inwardly, Bruce Wayne is still an adolescent watching his parents being murdered. That will never leave him. And people really relate to that.
Kevin Conroy

Parents, Someone, Hero

I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure.
Tim Cahill

Travel, Living, Dream

Typically diagnosed during childhood and adolescent years, juvenile diabetes, also referred to as Type I diabetes, currently affects more than 3 million Americans and more then 13,000 children are diagnosed each year.
Elijah Cummings

Children, Year, Childhood

I had to be intellectually satisfied as well as emotionally because at that time of life one doesn't just fall into it in adolescent emotion, and I was satisfied at every point that it was the one way and the hard way to do things.
Ruth Pitter

Life, Time, Hard

I am not an adolescent, nor a romantic. I analyze objectively.
Dilma Rousseff

Romantic, Nor, Analyze

The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not.
Louise J. Kaplan

Find, She, Order

My own experience being bullied - it made me a more compassionate person. It made me more sympathetic to the adolescent experience.
Carolyn Mackler

Experience, Person, Made

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