#scent

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

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#against #america #anti-semitic #based #best

Young women, adolescent girls, are more subject to infection, sometimes at a rate of six times that of boys. That tells you a lot about the vulnerability of women. ↗

— Stephen Lewis

#adolescent #infection #lot #more #rate

True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#except #humility #love is #moments #nascent

Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#am #born #descent #england #i

I'm often mistaken for Spanish or Latin descent. ↗

— Rita Ora

#i #latin #mistaken #often #spanish

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

If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#blogs #evanescent #got #just #look

Crossing the Penobscot, one found a visible descent in the scale of humanity. ↗

— Francis Parkman

#descent #found #humanity #scale #visible

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