Quotes About Adolescent Development

#1. It's the experts in adolescent development who wax most emphatic about the value of family meals, for it's in the teenage years that this daily investment pays some of its biggest dividends.

Nancy Gibbs

#2. Hence? My habit of reading more than I socialized made me use odd, awkward words without thinking.

April Genevieve Tucholke

#3. In the Pythagorean system, thinking about numbers, or doing mathematics, was an inherently masculine task. Mathematics was associated with the gods, and with transcendence from the material world; women, by their nature, were supposedly rooted in this latter, baser realm.

Margaret Wertheim

#4. I tried to balance the sufferings of the miserable victim against the moral degradation of Memphis, and the truth flashed over me that in large measure the race question involves the saving of black America's body and white America's soul.

Philip Dray

#5. Events are less important than our responses to them.

John Hersey

#6. Commercialism that has absolutely no relationship to quality whatsoever, only quantitative assessment of a thing.

Wynton Marsalis

#7. The theories of men changed from day to day. Much that is taught new will tomorrow be in the discard, but the word of the Lord will endure forever.

Joseph Fielding Smith

#8. Adolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself.

Sigmund Freud