68 Adolescent Quotes for You to Enjoy

As an adult, I've always found the stereotype that Jews are liberal a curious one; my parents' circle was predominantly conservative, not just on Israel but on most political issues. Most of all, they were intensely (and this is a word I remember repeating in my own angry adolescent dialogues with myself) tribal. Rick Perlstein

Myself Angry Conservative Remember Political Word Circle Tribal Parents Own Jews Liberal Adolescent My Own Adult Stereotype Most Always Israel Issues Were Repeating Political Issues Curious Intensely Just Found

I had to be intellectually satisfied as well as emotionally because at that time of life one doesn't just fall into it in adolescent emotion, and I was satisfied at every point that it was the one way and the hard way to do things. Ruth Pitter

Life Time Fall Satisfied Every Way One-Way Adolescent Point Emotion Had Emotionally Well Because Intellectually Just Hard Hard Way Things

Typically, middle-class educated parents' search for their children's schools takes on the feel, if not of teen girls trying on different outfits, of adolescents trying on various selves. Sandra Tsing Loh

Girl Parents Teen Outfits Adolescent Various Takes Feel Schools Educated Selves Trying Children Different Search

I always had that adolescent notion that I had to get out of Texas. But I'm really glad I grew up there. It's where I learned to look people in the eye, to be straightforward and polite. Sarah Shahi

People Eye Out Adolescent Glad Had Look Learned Polite Always Texas Up Get Where Grew Straightforward Really Notion

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

Time Women School Behavior Adolescent Potential Taking Taking Time Missing Economy Make Because Boy Does Educational Years Off Children Formative Them Choices Rear Productive Less Even

There aren't a lot of films about adolescents or quote-unquote coming-of-age films that are realistic nowadays. Shailene Woodley

Realistic Nowadays Films About Adolescent Lot

When I was an adolescent in England, at school we had to read 'Death of a Salesman.' I remember feeling incredibly moved by the portrayal of these people and the idea with which Miller broached the whole subject of failure or failed systems, or the way that people are crushed by a system in which they find themselves. Simon McBurney

Death Failure People Remember School Feeling Crushed Incredibly Way System Systems Find Adolescent Had Failed Idea Read Subject Salesman Moved Which Themselves England Whole Miller Portrayal

The British who arrived in the United States in the eighteen-thirties and forties had imagined the young republic as a wide-eyed adolescent, socially ungainly and politically gauche, but with some hint of promise. Simon Schama

Young States Promise Some Adolescent Had Hint Arrived Politically Republic Forties Who United United States Socially British Imagined

I think 'Speech & Debate' surprised people because it's a play about teenagers that took the teenagers very seriously. They are very real. People wanted to see if they identified with one of the kids, that loneliness, that yearning for something bigger. That feeling of being stuck, it's very adolescent, but those kinds of feelings linger on. Stephen Karam

Loneliness People Debate Seriously Feeling Feelings Think Took Teenagers Those Kids Kinds See About Adolescent Something Stuck Identified Because Real Surprised Yearning Linger Very Real People Being Wanted Bigger Play Speech

Taking place in some Nordic-looking hinterland where all the seasons are out of whack, 'Game of Thrones' is the most aggressive example since 'Battlestar Galactica' of a genre that's perceived as adolescent aspiring to be fully adult. Steve Erickson

I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents. Suzanne Collins

War About Adolescence Adolescent Write

I have a homosexual crush on most adolescents. Tre Cool

Adolescent Crush Most Homosexual

As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid. Will Self

Fluid Paper Adolescent Were Up Texts Blotting

Adolescents are still children in that they can't yet tell the difference between make believe and fiction. Heather O'Neill

Believe Tell Adolescent Between Make Make-Believe Still Difference Children Fiction

As a child I’m sure I was no different from any other human being struggling to navigate the difficulties and complexities of their childhood and adolescent years. I feel it’s a time when all of us need an escape, a place where we can leave the world behind and just disappear. For me, it was film. Sam Levinson

Time Me Human Being World Difficulties Other Complexities I Feel Adolescent Struggling Disappear Feel Sure Leave Years Escape Child Any Childhood Behind Human Just Being Where Different Place Us Navigate Film Need

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