“I absolutely remember where I was when I first heard it. It got me through adolescence.”
Patti Smith
“I have a homosexual crush on most adolescents.”
Tre Cool
“Adolescence is that time when I think, it can be- it's the cruelest place on Earth. It can really be heartless.”
Tori Amos
“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
“The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence”
Art Linkletter
“Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next.”
Cesare Pavese
“You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone”
John Ciardi
