“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
“There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.”
Edward Hoagland
“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.”
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
“Liberalism has produced women that are driven like men to succeed and men that succeed in being driven around by women.”
Daniel Bryant Gates
“This is a study of girls during adolescence, from 9 to 19, which is an age range that has not been well studied. This is an age range when a lot of girls put on a lot of weight.”
Bruce Barton
“We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage.”
Charles Krauthammer
“I have a homosexual crush on most adolescents.”
Tre Cool
