Quotes About Adolescence

Texas. A ring of boys drew closer around the younger one they had been pushing and shoving.

The hardest thing about adolescence is that everything seems too big. There's no way to get context or perspective, ..... Pain and joy without limits. No one can live like that forever, so experience finally comes to our rescue. We come to know what we can endure, and also that nothing endures.

When I was 12 I cried to my mom, because I never got my letter to Hogwarts.

You don't know what the hell you look like when you're just some little schoolgirl.

I guess that after three straight years of my not being anything -- not emo, not Christian, not prep, not jock, not ghetto, not punk, not hipster, not skank, not prude, just a half-assed band geek -- no one can believe I'd do anything so well defined as lie. I like my new superpower.

By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs.

I was told that I had very likely been clinically depressed for a long, long time, probably since I was 15, or even 14. It explained, to me at least, a lot of my behaviour over the years.

I chose to wait to get my drivers license. Since I was working and I didn't have time, I got it like a week before my 18th birthday.

So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition.

Once I grew from 6'1' to about 6'6', by that time I was going into 12th grade, and that's when I started wanting to play basketball, because, pretty much basketball players always got the girl.

By the time I was in my early teens, we were able to move into a much more middle-class area. I had a comfortable adolescence.

The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.

By the time I was 15 and I stepped in the high school gym, I was just stronger than everybody.

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.

When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.

I was in a band when I was 15. We were a glam band. Then I couldn't afford to buy makeup. At the time that was the thing.

I don't think I had a Catherine Bach poster, but I know a lot of my friends desecrated those, big time.

My parents were devoted. Civic minded. We had family counsels. Three of us children against two of them. We lived a 'Leave It to Beaver' time.

If you asked me to go back to being 14 or 15, I couldn't - it was a terrifying time. I was so awkward in my own skin. I used to hide behind my hair because I was so ridiculously self-conscious.

I was this weird loner kid who got drunk by himself all the time.

I was the angriest little person imaginable when I was younger. I woke up with a frown every morning. I barely talked, wore black all the time and had some serious teenage rebellion years

I tried to get as far away from home as possible after I graduated from high school because I had a hard time being a kid.

I was anorexic-bulimic when I was 16-17. It was a top secret that time, but these things always are.

I had a classic gym teacher in junior high who wore a weightlifter's belt all the time.