List of Adolescence Quotes in English With Images

So much alarmed that she is quite alarming, all Giggle, Blush, half Pertness, and half Pout.

Boys will be boys.  And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde.  They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives.

If we can be patient with our children, be tolerant of their eccentricities and – most important – enjoy them; they will almost certainly make their way.  If there is one thing that is likely to be a cure for adolescence, if the passing of a few years.

- Leo Blessing

The Imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there  is a space of lie between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness.

Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV.  You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.

I would there were no age between ten and three - and twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the anciently, stealing, fighting.

The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women.  Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.

In the life of children there are two very clear-cut phases, before and after puberty.  Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work: after puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious, tyrannical, insufferable.  Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely during this second period, when it is too late: then of course the stick and violence enter the scene and yield very few results indeed.  Why not instead take an interest in the child during the first period?

Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunities for action in all spheres of life.  Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.

They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their sympathy and their kind-hearted jokes, it would only make me want to scream all the more.  If I talk, everyone thinks I'm showing off; when I'm silent they think I'm ridiculous; rude if I answer, sly if I get a good idea, lazy if I'm tired, selfish if I eat a mouthful more than I should, stupid, cowardly, crafty, etc. etc.

All the any grown-up expects of an adolescent is that he should act like an adult and be satisfied to be treated like a child.

- Adolescence Quote by John Gran Download or Share

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.

- Adolescence Quotes by Arthur Rimbaud Download or Share

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.

- Adolescence Quotes by Georges Bernanos Download or Share