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Adolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself. -- Sigmund Freud
Young people, however, tend to ignore the customs of their elders. Adolescent rebellion has been responsible for all manner of absurd costumes. The more ridiculous a certain fashion is, the more adolescents will cling to it. -- David Eddings
Adolescents do get very angry with their parents, and acknowledging this anger is part of acknowledging them. If the anger is notacknowledged then its expression is increased. The parent seems super-strong. The adolescent tries to become the super-attacker. -- Terri E Apter
Adolescent girls were fighting a mother's interference because they wanted her to acknowledge their independence. Whatever resentment they had was not towards a mother's excessive concern, or even excessive control, but towards her inability to see, and appreciate, their maturing identity. -- Terri E Apter
Most adults would not dream of belittling, humiliating, or bullying (verbally or physically) another adult. But many of the same adults think nothing of treating their adolescent child like a nonperson. . . . Adolescents deserve the same civility their parents routinely extend to total strangers. -- Laurence Steinberg
I have a homosexual crush on most adolescents. -- Tre Cool
Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents. -- Camille Paglia
I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents. -- Suzanne Collins
To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent. -- Dave Barry
I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls. -- Kate Beckinsale
There aren't a lot of films about adolescents or quote-unquote coming-of-age films that are realistic nowadays. -- Shailene Woodley
I just remembered when I was an adolescent girl wanting to leave my island and find my calling. -- Lin-Manuel Miranda
No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time. -- Stephen Fry
Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family. -- Gertrude Stein
With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents. -- Omar N. Bradley
People are responsible adults at home. Why do we suddenly transform them into adolescents with no freedom when they reach the workplace? -- Ricardo Semler
If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education. -- Jane Fonda
Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. -- J. G. Ballard
I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz. -- Harold Pinter
Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves. -- Virginia Satir
Young women, adolescent girls, are more subject to infection, sometimes at a rate of six times that of boys. That tells you a lot about the vulnerability of women. -- Stephen Lewis
The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise. -- Alden Nowlan
For millions of girls around the world, motherhood comes too early. Those who bear children as adolescents suffer higher maternal mortality and morbidity rates, and their children are more likely to die in infancy. -- Esther Duflo
Anyone who has ever been an ugly adolescent - and we are legion - knows that the feeling of being unlovely and unlovable never goes away; it is always there, lurking just beneath the surface. -- Ruth Reichl
Part of getting older is realizing that you can integrate all these different areas of your life, rather than the adolescent mindset, which for me lasted a long time, which says, 'It's all or nothing.' -- Chris Robinson
As an adolescent, I went to charm school, where I learned to pour tea and relate to boys, which, as I recall, meant giving them the pickle jar to unscrew, whether it was too hard for me or not. -- Sue Monk Kidd
If women's choices - such as taking time off to rear children - make them less productive in the economy, does adolescent boys' behavior in school make them even less so, because they are missing the educational potential of their formative years? -- Sendhil Mullainathan
Pop music provides not just the soundtrack to our lives, as the cliche goes; it releases our emotions and helps us to articulate them. This is why music is so important to adolescents, who are struggling with questions of identity and self-expression. -- Sarah Churchwell
Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy; Canada is like an intelligent, 35-year-old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson. It comes right up to you and laughs very hard in your face in a highly threatening and engaging manner. -- Douglas Adams
Young children seem to be learning who to share this toy with and figure out how it works, while adolescents seem to be exploring some very deep and profound questions: 'How should this society work? How should relationships among people work?' The exploration is: 'Who am I, what am I doing?' -- Alison Gopnik
There's only one thing harder than living in a home with an adolescent - and that's being an adolescent. The moodiness, the volatility, the wholesale lack of impulse control, all would be close to clinical conditions if they occurred at another point in life. In adolescence, they're just part of the behavioral portfolio. -- Jeffrey Kluger
The thing about youthful offenders is that no one seems to care about them. Most people don't like adolescents - even the good ones can be snarky and unpleasant. Combine the antipathy we feel toward the average teenager with the fear inspired by youth violence, and you have a population that no one wants to deal with. -- Ayelet Waldman
I'm always interested in how people, myself included, have ideas of themselves, of how they thought they would be, or of how they want to be seen. And the older you get, the world keeps telling you different things about yourself. And how people either adjust to those things and let go of adolescent notions. Or they dig in deeper. -- Noah Baumbach
Make wisdom human to the adolescent mind. -- Will Durant
As an adolescent, Vonnegut made my life bearable. -- Jon Stewart
Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy. -- Virginia Satir
A poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-age longing. -- William A. Henry III
Natural Man, in our current version, is a disgruntled adolescent. -- Mason Cooley
The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature. -- Tayari Jones
I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure. -- Tim Cahill
I was - I've always been a bit of perpetual adolescent. -- Rick Springfield
I am not an adolescent, nor a romantic. I analyze objectively. -- Dilma Rousseff
A normal adolescent isn't a normal adolescent if he acts normal. -- Judith Viorst
I must bridge the gap between adolescent glitter and mature glow. -- Sylvia Plath
An adolescent is both an impulsive child and a self-starting adult. -- Mason Cooley
I immersed myself in books and rock 'n' roll, the adolescent salvation ... -- Patti Smith
Want to extinguish an adolescent's curiosity? Cover as much material as possible. -- Kelly Gallagher
I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent. -- Charles Caleb Colton
You could never be an adolescent if you don't look like one. -- Andy Warhol
We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage. -- Charles Krauthammer
many of us are done with adolescence before we are done with adolescent love. -- Judith Viorst
Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, doubtless two of the most exquisitely adolescent of fictions. -- Nancy Mairs
I want audiences to look at adolescent delinquents with greater understanding and more compassion. -- Emmanuelle Bercot
With adolescent egotism and a lot of money one can pretty much rule the world. -- Glen Duncan
There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America. -- Anita Diament
Maybe in adopting an adolescent attitude you then take on the look of a young person. -- Mary Tyler Moore
I've heard it said that the most dangerous animal on the planet is the adolescent male. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
When it comes to being slaves to fashion, American managers make adolescent girls look like rugged individualists. -- Geoffrey Nunberg
I was a rebellious adolescent. It was the '60s. Everyone was rebellious. I hated high school. -- George Dyson
As an adolescent, Spider-Man was what got me through tough times in terms of being a skinny kid. -- Andrew Garfield
Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness. -- James Broughton
As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid. -- Will Self
My parents were very patient with my pretentious little adolescent snobberies. It took me awhile to accept them. -- Matthew Specktor
I'm sure that's every adolescent's complaint about their home town. When a city is unstimulating, you get pretty isolated. -- Zach Condon
When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song. -- Dan Hill
The important thing is that all stages from adolescent to mature man, work is done to spread the sporting spirit. -- Pierre de Coubertin
Menopause is your return to where you were before, when your hormone levels are the same as a pre-adolescent girl's. -- Sandra Tsing Loh
the teenage zone: the stage when an adolescent's brain synapses quit firing while the rest of their body races toward adulthood. -- Becky Freeman
I didn't get at first put into a rehab facility; I got put in a adolescent psychiatric unit for my detox. -- Jack Osbourne
I told you once that [our marriage] was like an adolescent's dream of what marriage should be like. That hasn't changed. -- Ronald Reagan
At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Babies did not attract me, and I was altogether without the maternal sense so highly developed in small and adolescent girls. -- Rita Levi-Montalcini
I don't believe the United States is going through a midlife crisis. The United States is going through an adolescent crisis. -- Marianne Williamson
I see no greatness in my self...I'm a simple-minded, child-like, insipid sort of moronic and kind of akward feeling adolescent. -- Neal Cassady
My own experience being bullied - it made me a more compassionate person. It made me more sympathetic to the adolescent experience. -- Carolyn Mackler
Adults have their own issues and their own problems, which are understandable, and some adults are working through their own adolescent issues.- -- Christian Smith
If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge. -- James S. Coleman
I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself. -- Jane Fonda
Spending time with the child or adolescent in mutually enjoyable activities on a regular basis will help to build warmth and trust. -- Timothy Carey
The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Let your child be the teenager he or she wants to be, not the adolescent you were or wish you had been. -- Laurence Steinberg
As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa. -- Umberto Eco
It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons. -- Anna Chlumsky
No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent. -- Marcelene Cox
It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting these adolescent scenes. -- Diablo Cody
She smiles through a thousand tears, and harbors adolescent fears. She dreams of all that she can never be, she wades in insecurity. -- Mariah Carey
No matter what your origin or beliefs, rather adolescent or full grown. Thoughts are scribed in pencil but actions are carved in stone -- Carl Henegan
The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not. -- Louise J. Kaplan
All any grownup expects of an adolescent is that he act like an adult and be satisfied to be treated like a child. -- John Grant
One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the fates they deserve. -- Nicholas Rescher
As the therapeutic relationship is established and progress occurs in problem areas, the therapist can "lead" and "push" the adolescent toward abstract reasoning skill. -- Virgil Miller Newton
The Sopranos' is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor, falls, stupid puns, bad jokes - infantile, adolescent stuff, but it makes me laugh. -- David Chase
Skeptic that I was as an adolescent, I had recently come to believe in a Supreme Being after thumbing through a Victoria's Secret catalogue. -- Woody Allen
All seemingly profound thinking which passes for realism, because it conveniently does away with all troublesome principles, has agreat attraction for the adolescent mind. -- Johan Huizinga
It is terrible when an infant dies, but worse, most people think, when a three-year-old child dies, and worse still when an adolescent does. -- Ezekiel Emanuel
Sometimes offering support and making yourself available when the child or adolescent is ready to talk can be the most helpful you can be. -- Timothy Carey
Rock and Roll adolescent hoodlums storm the streets of all nations. They rush into the Louvre and throw acid in the Mona Lisa's face. -- William S. Burroughs
[Adolf] Hitler had a very strong adolescent side to him, emotionally he was like a boy in certain things, like film stars and gossip. -- Gretl Braun
When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...]. -- Simone de Beauvoir
Madman drummers, bummers, Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat. In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his way into his hat. -- Bruce Springsteen
The life-changing encounters that John Quincy Adams made as an adolescent on his own in Stockholm began with a friendship he struck up at a bookstore. -- Paul C. Nagel
I think that is a universal adolescent feeling, trying to find your place. The adolescent who is perfectly adjusted to his environment, I've yet to meet. -- Roger Bannister
The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education. -- James S. Coleman
Conversion is in its essence a normal adolescent phenomenon, incidental to the passage from the child's small universe to the wider intellectual and spiritual life of maturity. -- William James
When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings. -- Aidan Chambers
I don't think arrested-adolescent humor will fade. Maybe the form will change, but I guarantee its replacement will still be based in immature behavior from mature figures. -- Adam McKay
No longer a mark of distinction or proof of achievement, a college education is these days a mere rite of passage, a capstone to adolescent party time. -- William A. Henry III
The distance between the adolescent and the true adult is about five thousand miles, but the distance between the adult and the elder is almost as large. -- Robert Bly
Every time a man dies, a child dies too, and an adolescent and a young man as well; everyone weeps for the one who was dear to him. -- Simone de Beauvoir
Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk. -- Michael J. Fox
Adults forget the depths of languor into which the adolescent mind decends with ease. They are prone to undervalue the mental growth that occurs during daydreaming and aimless wandering -- E. O. Wilson
I think the Hulk has always appealed very strongly to much younger readers than Spider-Man, because Spider-Man is an adolescent character, and the Hulk is a very childlike character. -- Kurt Busiek
The best gardener is a baby killer. Baby insects are much easier to kill than adults, and haven't yet developed the big mouths and voracious appetite of the adolescent. -- Janet Macunovich
Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy, Canada is like an intelligent, 35 year old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson. -- Douglas Adams
Ugly Betty' has been four years of my life, important adolescent years. I think that all I've really known was getting pampered and interviewed and getting my picture taken. -- Mark Indelicato
Typically diagnosed during childhood and adolescent years, juvenile diabetes, also referred to as Type I diabetes, currently affects more than 3 million Americans and more then 13,000 children are diagnosed each year. -- Elijah Cummings
Germany is in terrible condition this year. This is particularly true of the working masses, who are so undernourished that tuberculosis is having a rich harvest, particularly of adolescent children. -- Agnes Smedley
I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn't skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years. -- Neil Peart
The need to express one's self in writing springs from a maladjustment of life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action. -- Andre Maurois
I do turn down things that I feel aren't right for me, like when it's some kind of adolescent thing that might typecast me, but I'm not worried about it. -- Selma Blair

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