Quotes on Adolescence
The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawk-ishness.
John Keats (1795-1821) English poet
Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn’t matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
Anthony Hope Hawkins (1863-1933) British author
For the affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack’s beanstalk, and reaches right up ‘to the sky in a night.
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) English author
Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
Fran Lebowitz (b. 1951) American journaliat