#adolescent

As an adolescent, Spider-Man was what got me through tough times in terms of being a skinny kid. ↗

— Andrew Garfield

#being #got #kid #me #skinny

I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent. ↗

— Madeleine Peyroux

#artists #bunch #discovered #early #especially

To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent. ↗

— Dave Barry

#adolescent #embarrassing #more #nothing #parent

Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness. ↗

— James Broughton

#begin #end #find #gladness #i

It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is at most of minor importance in giving status or prestige to an adolescent in the eyes of other adolescents. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#adolescent #around #clear #data #eyes

Germany is in terrible condition this year. This is particularly true of the working masses, who are so undernourished that tuberculosis is having a rich harvest, particularly of adolescent children. ↗

— Agnes Smedley

#children #condition #germany #harvest #having

As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#africa #because #books #central #comic

Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#because #brain #enough #evaluate #formed

I didn't get at first put into a rehab facility; I got put in a adolescent psychiatric unit for my detox. ↗

— Jack Osbourne

#detox #facility #first #get #got

I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn't skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years. ↗

— Neil Peart

#ankles #any #canada #good #growing