Pastoral Resources

Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.

Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.

What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.

Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.

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.

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.

Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

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

I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.

Premature burial works just fine as a cure for adolescence.

The conflict between the need to belong to a group and the need to be seen as unique and individual is the dominant struggle of adolescence.

Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.

With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.

Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past.

Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.