#adolescence

No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren't cool, just to establish themselves. That's what adolescence is about. They're gonna go through that no matter what. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#adolescence #cool #create #dad #establish

Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born. ↗

— G. Stanley Hall

#adolescence #birth #born #completely #higher

Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past. ↗

— Granville Stanley Hall

#individual #past #race #savage #stage

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#already #elegance #escaped #future #just

I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with. ↗

— Maya Lin

#always #american #ate #comfortable #dinner

Adolescence is just one big walking pimple. ↗

— Carol Burnett

#adolescence #big #just #just one #pimple

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence. ↗

— Jules Feiffer

#adolescence #break #maturity #only #short

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. ↗

— John Ciardi

#adolescence #anyone #enough #poet #suffer

Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap. ↗

— Benedict Cumberbatch

#boarding #boarding school #crap #having #just

I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird. ↗

— Uma Thurman

#adolescence #convinced #everyone #first #fourteen