Quotes tagged ‘Adolescence’

“I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?”

— Raynold Gideon, Bruce A. Evans, The Writer, Richard Dreyfuss, imdb.com

“Salem: Whoa! Who's your new friend? Zelda: It’s her first wart as a witch! Hilda: Oh, let me get the camera!”

— Nell Scovell, Hilda Spellman, Caroline Rhea, imdb.com

“Adolescence is a battle. A life-or-death mission into hostile territory. You tiptoe through minefields. Dodge bullets. Try to do the right thing...in a crazy time. But war has another side. The noble side. Forging friendships between improbable comrades. Uniting men. Bringing together the good...the…”

— Jeffrey Stepakoff, Narrator (Adult Kevin), Daniel Stern, imdb.com

“You know, 14 is when we start to make our own musical choices. Our cognitive development evolves at that age and we start to form our own cultural identity.”

— Breen Frazier, Dr. Spencer Reid, Matthew Gray Gubler, imdb.com

“Really from a young age, my story was darkness, pain, self-injury, suicide attempts and loss. I spent my adolescent years not knowing who I was, struggling with mental illness, struggling with self-destruction, rage, and all the other things that are part of mental illness and part of people who hav…”

— Amy Bleuel, underthelabels.wordpress.com

“Most presidential candidates spend their entire careers, if not their lives from adolescence, preparing for the role. They rise up the ladder of elected offices, perfect a public face, and prepare themselves to win and to govern. The Trump calculation, quite a conscious one, was different. The candi…”

— Michael Wolff, nymag.com

“My own first love was biology. I spent a great part of my adolescence in the Natural History museum in London (and I still go to the Botanic Garden almost every day, and to the Zoo every Monday). The sense of diversity—of the wonder of innumerable forms of life—has always thrilled me beyond anything…”

— Oliver Sacks, en.wikiquote.org

“No, no, no, no. You can't! You can't! This is something that comes about once in a lifetime! When we were boys, looking through our bedroom windows, we would think: ‘Why can't there be a woman out there, taking her clothes off?’ And now that wish has come true, and you want to throw it away?”

— Larry David, Cosmo Kramer, Michael Richards, imdb.com