10 POINTS 4 him who can give me a very great QUOTATION about ADOLESCENCE

Question

thanks! I need it for the introduction of my oration about adolescence

Answer 1

"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."

Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) I think

Answer 2

here are a few:

Adolescents need to be reassured that nothing—neither their growing maturity, their moods, their misbehavior, nor your anger at something they have done—can shake your basic commitment to them.

Adolescence is a time of active deconstruction, construction, reconstruction—a period in which past, present, and future are rewoven and strung together on the threads of fantasies and wishes that do not necessarily follow the laws of linear chronology.

Adolescence is the time to enlarge the natural sentiments of pity, friendship, and generosity, the time to develop an understanding of human nature and the varieties of human character, the time to gain insight into the strengths and weaknesses of all men and to study the history of mankind.

Answer 3

it SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Answer 4

      ÃƒÂ¢Ã‚€ÂœSo much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition”

Theodore Roethke

Answer 5

    "When adults say, 'Teenagers think they are invincible' with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail."  - John Green

paraphrase as you wish