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By the time people reach adulthood, they really don't want to have acne. In adolescence, everybody seems to have acne. My adult patients look around and say, 'I'm the only one who's breaking out. (Quote by - Kristine Romine)

In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.' (Quote by - Daniel Clowes)

In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics. Now, on the contrary, I enjoy life; I might almost say that with every year that passes I enjoy it more. (Quote by - Bertrand Arthur William Russell)

Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for. (Quote by - Rex Stout)

The mentality of an army on the march is merely so much delayed adolescence; it remains persistently, incorrigibly and notoriously infantile. (Quote by - Albert Jay Nock)

There are pretty strong research findings that once girls hit adolescence, their rates of depression are higher than the rate in boys and men. (Quote by - Dr. Erika Ryst)

There are times when weight gain slows down and speeds up. That's perfectly normal in teenagers. But it is definitely, absolutely a danger sign if a youngster is losing weight during adolescence. (Quote by - Steve Bloomfield)

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future. (Quote by - Coco Chanel)

Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born. (Quote by - G. Stanley Hall)

You do not have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. (Quote by - John Ciardi)

My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London. (Quote by - Peter Shaffer)

Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity. (Quote by - F. Scott Fitzgerald)

It is surprising that in early adolescence there is already evidence of this change, ... The fact that that is apparent even in young adolescents is of great concern. (Quote by - JoAnn Manson)

Adolescence, the stage between puberty and adultery. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)

I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies. (Quote by - Stanislav Grof)

Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past. (Quote by - Granville Stanley Hall)

Adolescence is just one big walking pimple. (Quote by - Carol Burnett)

Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses. (Quote by - Jena Malone)

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.dolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)

Paraguay remains a country in gestation. We still haven't reached national maturation. We are in our adolescence and, consequently, full of fears and ghosts. (Quote by - Oscar Torres)

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved. (Quote by - Jose Ortega Y Gasset)

Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility. (Quote by - Terri Apter)

Although I was well past my teenage troubles, our music was specifically designed to lubricate the passage from adolescence to adulthood, (Quote by - Pete Townshend)

Our children are less of a risk than any other adolescence. We provide them with constant supervision. (Quote by - Shawna Egan)

The conflict between the need to belong to a group and the need to be seen as unique and individual is the dominant struggle of adolescence. (Quote by - Jeanne Elium)

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