Adolescent

Famous quotes containing the word adolescent:

“Go to the adolescent who are smothered in family—
Oh how hideous it is
To see three generations of one house gathered together!
It is like an old tree with shoots,
And with some branches rotted and falling.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

“Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

“Let your child be the teenager he or she wants to be, not the adolescent you were or wish you had been.”
—Laurence Steinberg (20th century)