Top 322 Adolescent Quotes & Sayings

I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure.

You could never be an adolescent if you don't look like one.

The parent-adolescent relationship is like a partnership in which the senior partner (the parent) has more expertise in many areasbut looks forward to the day when the junior partner (the adolescent) will take over the business of running his or her own life.

As an adolescent, I was bitter and angry, and I definitely put up these walls.

The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature.

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.

Natural Man, in our current version, is a disgruntled adolescent.

The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed. It is better to treat an adolescent as if he had greater value than he actually shows than as if he had less and let him feel that his merits and self-respect are disregarded.

Let your child be the teenager he or she wants to be, not the adolescent you were or wish you had been.

I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.

With adolescent egotism and a lot of money one can pretty much rule the world.

To die; to decide to die; that's much easier for an adolescent than for an adult. What? Doesn't death strip an adolescent of a far larger portion of future? Certainly it does, but for a young person, the future is a remote, abstract, unreal thing he doesn't really believe in.

I just remembered when I was an adolescent girl wanting to leave my island and find my calling.

The important thing is that all stages from adolescent to mature man, work is done to spread the sporting spirit.

We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage.

A normal adolescent isn't a normal adolescent if he acts normal.

I want audiences to look at adolescent delinquents with greater understanding and more compassion.

Maybe in adopting an adolescent attitude you then take on the look of a young person.

I'm sure that's every adolescent's complaint about their home town. When a city is unstimulating, you get pretty isolated.

Like the adolescent, the artist is a dreamer and a revolutionary; like the adolescent, he often finds his accomplishment inadequate to his imaginings. But his dream, setting him apart, helps him to escape the burden of the real.

A poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-age longing.

If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge.

Preoccupied with her self, the adolescent sees enormous changes, whereas the parent sees the child she knew all along. For the parent, new developments are superficial and evanescent. For the adolescent, they are thrilling and profound.

American pop culture is perpetually in adolescent mode. The notions of what it takes to be a man, as depicted in pop culture, are very superficial, one-dimensional, and adolescent.

When a child or adolescent is troubled, the most important thing for the parent to focus on may very well be their relationship with their child or adolescent. Parents need to do whatever they can to make sure the relationship is strong.

I loved my freedom as an adolescent, and I'd love to be an adolescent again.

I immersed myself in books and rock 'n' roll, the adolescent salvation.

We have the most prolonged adolescence in the history of mankind. There is no other society that requires so many years to pass before people are grown up ... Adolescence is nurtured and prolonged by educational processes and by industry that has found a bonanza in embracing the adolescent population and fortifying 'adolescent values.' This prolongation of adolescence robs the country of the population group having the most risk takers, and the highest ideals.

Political correctness and so many of the political fashions of the day...could only be perpetrated in adolescent minds: minds, that is, that are trained to search out one thing and one thing only...Only an adolescent would find it worthwhile to devote his or her attention chiefly to the hunting of offenses, the possibility of slights, real and imagined.

Honestly, in retrospect, it probably was a little easier being an adolescent and not having people immediately know that Hef was my dad.

The pulp hero, though he may be a renegade, is a guy who doesn't feel. Anything. Ever. And for the adolescent male - pummeled by emotions left and right, whether arising from sexuality or resulting from his necessary encounters with authority - this hero is a blessing, a relief and a release. The world he lives in, where feelings are totally under control, looks to the adolescent boy like heaven! This hero's lack of feeling - like Star Trek's Spock - is what allows him to be a genius, or allows him to shoot the bad guys and/or aliens, without a quiver to his lip.

I was - I've always been a bit of perpetual adolescent.

Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, doubtless two of the most exquisitely adolescent of fictions.

I am not an adolescent, nor a romantic. I analyze objectively.

Mozart was very much an arrested adolescent.

When it comes to being slaves to fashion, American managers make adolescent girls look like rugged individualists.

To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.

Want to extinguish an adolescent's curiosity? Cover as much material as possible.

It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.

I've heard it said that the most dangerous animal on the planet is the adolescent male.

As an adolescent, Spider-Man was what got me through tough times in terms of being a skinny kid.

Sometimes offering support and making yourself available when the child or adolescent is ready to talk can be the most helpful you can be.

The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin.

In India, while there are some initiatives working with and for adolescent girls, there are too few state sponsored programmes for adolescent boys, be it rural or urban.

I have often been struck by the fact that most parents who are experiencing positive and rewarding relationships with their pre-adolescent children are, nevertheless, waiting apprehensively and bracing themselves for the stormy adolescent period.

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.

Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy.

When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.

Adolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself.

The first typical adolescent of modern times was Wagner's Siegfried. : the music of Siegfried expressed for the first time that combination of (provisional) purity, physical strength, naturism, spontaneity and joie de vivre which was to make the adolescent the hero of our twentieth century, the century of adolescence.

I'm amazed at the adolescent nature of some of the religious fanatics in our government. And they're full of double standards.

I must bridge the gap between adolescent glitter and mature glow.

An adolescent is both an impulsive child and a self-starting adult.

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.

Any statements from the parents may seem like criticism or judgment by the child or adolescent. It's very important that the child or adolescent does most of the talking and the parent asks questions curiously to understand the perspective of the child or adolescent.

Our own unresolved authority problems from our youth sometimes get transferred to our youthful patients, because we are still "covert adolescent rebels." In subtle ways, we encourage the adolescent patient to rebel towards parents, school authorities, and society in general.

No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.

As an adolescent, Vonnegut made my life bearable.

I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself.