The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise
Alden Nowlan
Most everybody today that`s young is operating under the insane idea that what we`ve got going on is the best that there is. But it`s not. Current entertainment is cheap, shoddy, infantile, adolescent, not grown-up. We`re fed imagery that`s really pornogr...
Hal Holbrook
[When asked about the transition from child star to adolescent actor] "You`re 14 or 15, and they can hire an 18-year-old and not have the child-labor law restrictions, and so they do. Just at the point when you`re feeling confused and vulnerable, you`re b...
Ron Howard
I have seen so few films in which the sex felt really respected by the filmmaker. Hollywood too often shies away from it or makes adolescent jokes about it. ... Sex is only connected to the negative because people are scared of it.
John Cameron Mitchell
You know for American filmmakers, the Oscars is like a mystic thing. For me it was being in a mirror of my dreams when I was dreaming of Hollywood when I was an adolescent.
Bernardo Bertolucci
People fantasize about being a hero and helping someone in trouble. Batman is that fantasy realized--not just for Bruce Wayne, but for the audience. Inwardly, Bruce Wayne is still an adolescent watching his parents being murdered. That will never leave hi...
Kevin Conroy
[On short stature]: When I was younger, definitely, I let it get to me. As an adolescent, I was bitter and angry and I definitely put up these walls. But the older you get, you realize you just have to have a sense of humour. You just know that it`s not y...
Peter Dinklage
[on Marlon Brando] As an actor, he is a genius and even when he`s dull he`s still much better than most actors at the top of their form. But he has preserved the mentality of an adolescent. It`s a pity. When he doesn`t try and someone`s speaking to him it...
Burt Reynolds
I went through that adolescent crisis where you either jump into the river or jump into spirituality. I felt the call for a while; then I felt the normal pull of the world and the flesh. - PB, referring to his early life as a monk
Peter Boyle
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
When it comes to adolescent eating disorders, it is usually the parents` responsibility to seek help. The girl with the eating disorder is often the last to know she is ill,
Anna Pacheco
We are targeting the adolescent male population through the music fraternity, and also through sports, in an effort to instil positive messages through creative communication strategies.
Elizabeth Ward
Typically diagnosed during childhood and adolescent years, juvenile diabetes, also referred to as Type I diabetes, currently affects more than 3 million Americans and more then 13,000 children are diagnosed each year.
Alberto Mancini
The print material that are being distributed at parties and social events have been extensively tested for the appeal of the adolescent market, including the Jamaican cartoons and parenting crossword puzzles and word games,
Elizabeth Ward
One thing adolescent mothers face is the very low expectations that most people have for them, ... has the mothers learn that they are capable of doing all sorts of things that they might not have thought they were capable of.
Jill Taylor
One of our goals is to provide young girls with character-building life skills that can help them avoid risky adolescent behaviors, such as drug or alcohol use, early sexual activity and eating disorders.
Arthur Levin
I think that is a universal adolescent feeling, trying to find your place. The adolescent who is perfectly adjusted to his environment, I`ve yet to meet.
Roger Bannister
I think that is a universal adolescent feeling, trying to find your place. The adolescent who is perfectly adjusted to his environment, I`ve yet to meet.
Roger Bannister
An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who`s kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.
Akhmed Zakayev
The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise
Alden Nowlan
