Adolescence

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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does.

- General Lewis B. Hershey Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their sympathy and their kind-hearted jokes, it would only make me want to scream all the more. If I talk, everyone thinks I'm showing off when I'm silent they think I'm ridiculous rude if I answer, sly if I get a good idea, lazy if I'm tired, selfish if I eat a mouthful more than I should, stupid, cowardly, crafty, etc. etc.

- Anne Frank Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

- Anne Frank Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- Coco Chanel Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.

- Brooke Shields Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Man has boyhood, adolescence, youth, middle age and senescence, as stages of growth there are also corresponding stages in the growth of wisdom in him.

- Sathya Baba Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

There are no old men any more. Playboy and Penthouse have between them made an ideal of eternal adolescence, sunburnt and saunaed, with the grey dorianed out of it.

- Peter Ustinov Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- Earl Wilson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

- Clive Staples (Jack) Lewis Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives, through adolescence, and while they are trying to work out who they are as people, never mind as a dancer. So train the whole person, not just the dancer.

- Deborah Bull Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I decided to use black-and-white for the film, because that is the image of adolescence to me. We see teen films all the time where the colors are very bright and always changing. But teens tend to look at things in very specific terms. They believe in things one way or the other, and they see themselves and the people around them one way or the other.

- Fernando Eimbcke Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- Peter Shaffer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- David Elkind Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It has been a life-long pursuit for me, ... Running is an affair of youth. It helps you through adolescence and, for me of course, at a certain point it opened doors. I met people, and traveled. Of course it can make life more exciting and fulfilling.

- Roger Bannister Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.

- Rex Stout Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We argued that 18 is the natural age. It's an age that's reflected almost universally whenever legislatures have to find a dividing line between adolescence and adulthood, for purposes of driving, and signing contracts and entering marriage agreements and things like that.

- Seth Waxman Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We want to extend our adolescence as long as we can. I.O., Upright Citizens Brigade and 'SNL' have enabled me to do that.

- Amy Poehler Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- Art Linkletter Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We have listened to gays and lesbians describe painful rejections for an orientation they insist they have not chosen. Neither is acceptable for students who struggle enough with the difficulty of adolescence.

- David Clark Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.

- Jules Feiffer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational 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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes