Alice Thomas Ellis Quotes

When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.

I'm always thinking about identity. And the middle-school years are a time of exploring questions about who you are and who you want to be. For the first time, you see the world in a broader sense.

I think when you are 17 you are very innocent.

The teenage years are my least favorite, though my son is phenomenal. He does not get in trouble, and he's not a bad kid. But the fact that they think they know so much.

Adolescence is like cactus.

I remember hearing once that good girls don't get caught. I think that's sort of a lot of what my teen years were like.

I don't believe the United States is going through a midlife crisis. The United States is going through an adolescent crisis.

Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience.

Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession.

For only that which we knew and practiced at age 15 will one day constitute our attraction. And one thing, therefore, can never be made good: having neglected to run away from home.

I have a 14 year old daughter now. You know, it was that time in these kids lives when these girls are becoming women and the hormones are raging. They didn't know if The Beatles were any good, they just went for it 'cause The Beatles were attractive.

When I was young and irresponsible, I was young and irresponsible.

Adolescence is like having only enough light to see the step directly in front of you.

The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle.

An adolescent is both an impulsive child and a self-starting adult.

I was between A man and a boy, A hobble-de-hoy, A fat, little, punchy concern of sixteen.

L'adolescence est le seul temps o u' l'on ait appris quelque chose. Adolescence is the only time when we can learn something.

Adolescence can be a time of turmoil and turbulence, of stress and storm. Rebellion against authority and against convention is to be expected and tolerated for the sake of learning and growth.

In general confusion youth recognizes itself and rejoices.

To produce that identity among young people required guinea pigs.

No one's serious at seventeen.

The fifties were when people started coming down on "juvenile delinquents," "hoodlums," "vandals"--anybody that was young, wore a motorcycle jacket, and didn't act polite around older people.

Today's child is growing up absurd, because he lives in two worlds, and neither of them inclines him to grow up. Growing up--thatis our new work, and it is total. Mere instruction will not suffice.

Teenage rebellion is for suburban schoolchildren. Get over it.