(89 quotes found)
“What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.”
Georges Bernanos
“In no order of things is adolescence the time of the simple life.”
Janet Erskine Stuart
“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
“I absolutely remember where I was when I first heard it. It got me through adolescence.”
Patti Smith
“ADOLESCENCE The stage between puberty and adultery.”
Ambrose Bierce
“We want to extend our adolescence as long as we can,”
Amy Poehler
“Premature burial works just fine as a cure for adolescence.”
George Alec Effinger
“[As Shannon began seeking her identity during adolescence, she felt suffocated by her mother.] Religious extremism and black-and-white ideology don't let people be people, ... It doesn't provide problem-solving skills. It sets people up to be damaged by offering simple answers to complex problems. It lacks compassion without care to what the research is. And nobody's that damn perfect.”
Joe Fields
“There are pretty strong research findings that once girls hit adolescence, their rates of depression are higher than the rate in boys and men.”
Dr. Erika Ryst
