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The mentality of an army on the march is merely so much delayed adolescence; it remains persistently, incorrigibly and notoriously infantile.
-- Albert J. Nock#Army #March #Adolescence
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Adolescence is like cactus.
-- Anais Nin#Cactus #Adolescence
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You can certainly extend your adolescence. There's people that are very good at extending it indefinitely.
-- Ben Mendelsohn#People #Very Good #Adolescence
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I went through an awkward adolescence and had braces.
-- Christina Ricci#Awkward #Braces #Adolescence
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We live a protracted adolescence. At some point you must leave the party.
-- Don Henley#Party #Adolescence
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Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
-- G. Stanley Hall#Birth #Born #Adolescence
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When I was 14, I felt very rundown; I had a home to go to, but I felt like I was 60 or something, older than I feel now. And I don't know if it's something that happens at 14, or whether it was adolescence or whether I was gay, or closeted gay, or whatever it was, I felt that.
-- Gus Van Sant#Home #Gay #Adolescence
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All the best human impulses can be traced back to adolescence.
-- Helene Deutsch#All The Best #Impulse #Adolescence
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I spent my whole adolescence, when you just want to be accepted, looking much younger than everyone else.
-- Jenna Fischer#Want #Accepted #Adolescence
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High school was great when it ended.
-- Jennifer Stone#School #High School #Adolescence
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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#Children #Adults #Adolescence
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Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset#Adolescence #Poetry Is
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many of us are done with adolescence before we are done with adolescent love.
-- Judith Viorst#Done #Adolescence
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
-- Kate Beckinsale#Found #Difficult #Adolescence
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Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.
-- Louise J. Kaplan#Childhood #Adolescence #Adulthood
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nothing is as conventional as adolescence.
-- Margaret Deland#Adolescence
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Traditionally parents have wondered what their teens were doing, but now teens are much more likely to be doing things that can get them killed.
-- Mary Pipher#Parent #Teens #Adolescence
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When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.
-- Max Lerner#Teenage #Serious #Adolescence
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In our house we say 'adolescence' is a western word. We don't believe in it.
-- Mira Nair#Believe #House #Adolescence
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We become adolescents when the words that adults exchange with one another become intelligible to us.
-- Natalia Ginzburg#Adults #Adolescence
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We spend our whole lives recovering from high school.
-- Paula Danziger#School #Adolescence #Whole Life
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My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.
-- Peter Shaffer#Childhood #London #Adolescence
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I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family.
-- Randy Quaid#Want #Adolescence #Delayed
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Adolescence isn't a period; it's a coma.
-- Richard Armour#Periods #Adolescence #Coma
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True love comes along after adolescence, when we have learned not to cry for nothing.
-- Sophia Loren#Cry #Adolescence
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Love is the only thing that keeps me sane ...
-- Sue Townsend#Love Is #Adolescence #Sane
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I have decided to keep a full journal, in the hope that my life will perhaps seem more interesting when it is written down.
-- Sue Townsend#Interesting #Diaries #Adolescence
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If God wanted a world filled with saints, He never would have created adolescence.
-- Susan Beth Pfeffer#World #Saint #Adolescence
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I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.
-- Suzanne Collins#War #Writing #Adolescence
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Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.
-- Tayari Jones#Way #Modern #Adolescence
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Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy.
-- Virginia Satir#Easy #Stage #Adolescence
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My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted.
-- Walker Percy#Mother #Failing #Adolescence
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Premature burial works just fine as a cure for adolescence.
-- George Alec Effinger#Cures #Fine #Adolescence
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I joke sometimes that I live a protracted adolescence, that a part of me will always be twelve years old.
-- Jack Driscoll#Sometimes #Adolescence #Jokes
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From adolescence to death there is something very personal about being a Negro in America.
-- Jay Saunders Redding#America #Adolescence
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Adolescence is a kind of slavery cleverly disguised as freedom.
-- Mardy Grothe#Slavery #Kind #Adolescence
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I wanted to make a body of work that looked at what it felt like to be a boy going through adolescence.
-- Polixeni Papapetrou#Boys #Body #Adolescence
