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

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

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 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

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

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

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

- Peter Shaffer 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

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

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

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

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 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

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.

- Maya Lin 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

Canada had a long adolescence as a country. This 1906 departure of the British has been overlooked for many years. . . . I think if we appreciate that this was one step on a long road to becoming a full country, then it is an event of importance that we should remember.

- John Johnston 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

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

From adolescence to death there is something very personal about being a Negro in America.

- J. Saunders Redding 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

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

- Art Linkletter Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as the poet says, is always through.

- Arthur Miller Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Children and their parents should be counseled on prevention measures, including avoiding tanning, especially as they reach adolescence and appearance becomes a larger issue.

- Mandeep Kaur Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- John Ciardi Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes