#dole

I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay of the odds that I might live for a while, that I can sleep it off. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#am #decay #except #feel #first

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

Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives, through adolescence, and while they are trying to work out who they are as people, never mind as a dancer. So train the whole person, not just the dancer. ↗

— Deborah Bull

#dancer #dancers #just #lives #mind

Adolescence is just one big walking pimple. ↗

— Carol Burnett

#adolescence #big #just #just one #pimple

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence. ↗

— Jules Feiffer

#adolescence #break #maturity #only #short

It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons. ↗

— Anna Chlumsky

#adolescent #because #easy #fulfilling #i

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. ↗

— John Ciardi

#adolescence #anyone #enough #poet #suffer

We just sent our condolences to the President of the United States and the American people on what is a terrible, terrible tragedy. ↗

— Helen Clark

#american people #condolences #just #our #people

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

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#aiming #being #by the time #fifty #i