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Tag Name "Adolescence" (234)

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I was a serious comic collector and fanboy as a kid. I wanted very badly to draw comic books for a lot of my childhood and early adolescence. So when you have an unfulfilled dream like that, when years later you find yourself in a position to make a graphic novel - hell yeah, I'm going to do that.
Anthony Bourdain
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Our children tremble in their teen-age cribs, whirling off on a thumb or a motorcycle.
Anne Sexton
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I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.
Uma Thurman
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Massachusetts is the first state in America to reach full adulthood. The rest of America is still in adolescence.
Uwe Reinhardt
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Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
Anne Frank
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I remember adolescence, the years of having the impulse control of a mousetrap, of being as private as a safe-deposit box.
Anna Quindlen
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Just because I do what I do doesn't mean I escaped adolescence, all the bumps and bruises that go along with it.
Anna Paquin
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Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.
David Elkind
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He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.
Aneurin Bevan
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Looking younger and being younger is the adolescence idea.
Andy Warhol
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I was never a big fashion person, and so I'm sure I wore whatever. I was growing, and so I just wore whatever clothes that weren't that expensive and made sense at the time. But I'm sure that I look back and say, 'What was I thinking?' My adolescence was more in the '80s, and that's more my cross to bear.
Vince Vaughn
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Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony.
Andy Hargreaves
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Adolescence in my growing up period was truly Happy Days, the title of a TV show connotating the quality of this life period.
Virgil Miller Newton
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Woman's great strength lies in being late or absent. Presence immediately reveals the weak points of our beloved when she is absent she become one of the sylph-like figures of our adolescence whom we endowed with perfection.
Andre Maurois
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Adolescence is like cactus.
Anais Nin
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It's a pretty scary time. So many emotions come up and you don't really have the wisdom to make the right choices. You can really screw yourself in adolescence.
Josh Hartnett
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But let us not forget that cities are like human beings. They are born, they go through childhood and adolescence, they grow old, and eventually they die
Elif Safak
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The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence.
Amity Shlaes
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Adolescence: The stage between puberty and adultery.
Ambrose Bierce
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Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery.
Ambrose Bierce
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I'm a big people pleaser I had a very awkward adolescence. Part of me is still that person who wants everyone to like me.
Alissa Nutting
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Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence.
Alice Thomas Ellis
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The phenomenal success of the recovery movement reflects two simple truths that emerge in adolescence: all people love to talk about themselves, and most people are mad at their parents. You don't have to be in denial to doubt that truths like these will set us free.
Wendy Kaminer
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The upheavals of adolescence silenced 'A Christmas Carol' for a few years. I became a firebrand atheist. Christmas - humbug! Too commercial! Then I became an agnostic. Christmas was a pro-forma affair, basically a chore. Buy mother a book, dad a new tie, my brother and sister small gifts. Pretend thanks for the fountain pens and shirts I received.
Whitley Strieber
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