Quotes About Adolescence

I was kind of a tomboy. I was the girl in middle school with the floods on - I wasn't fashionable at all.

I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.

I was a big tomboy.

Whatever happened to the tomboy I used to be, the slightly rebellious rocker?

At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.

I was a tomboy, not a girlie girl.

I was such a tomboy. I had absolutely no bosom, and I wore my hair really short - shaved, like a boy.

As a teenager, I was very awkward in my skin. I was never in the cool gang. I had braces and was quite the geek as well as a tomboy.

I was a tomboy growing up. Even after I started modeling at thirteen, I didn't learn how to do my makeup.

I am a redhead and was a tomboy for many years.

My first fragrance as a kid was Tommy Girl. It was amazing. Wasn't it the thing to wear? And then I remember I stopped wearing it because it was literally like the whole classroom was filled with Tommy Girl.

As a teenager, I didn't read a ton of teen fiction, and now I feel like I wish that I had.

I was very immature - who isn't at age 12? Let's be real. Once I kind of figured myself out and grew as a person, I now have a ton of different friends and learned who I was.

Well, I don't know if this is true of everyone, but I have this relationship with my parents where, despite however mature or articulate or grown-up I think I've become, as soon as I go home, I turn into this petulant 13-year-old, especially with the tone of my voice.

Upon reading the deeply serious opening of Scott Spencer's 'Endless Love', you will very likely laugh out loud. The tone is something like what you might find in a teenager's diary: verbose, feverish, furiously self-important.

I was a really bad teenager and I got my tongue pierced. I don't even remember where I did it, but it was under very surreptitious circumstances.

Looking back at that now I shudder at my naivety: while 'Men Behaving Badly' remains a brilliant sitcom, how did I ever aspire to Gary and Tony's eternal adolescence?

I was much too late when I found out about my passion for motor racing. I was 18.

Growing up, I always took things too personal and was very emotional, and I got made fun of for it.

In part because of my own journey from a council estate in East London to a seat in the House of Commons, and in part because my adolescence took place during an economic boom and the advent of new technology, I had assumed that over time we would all become better off and, as the white wristbands told us, we would 'Make Poverty History.'

When I was 15, I got super into Eric Clapton. My father took notice of this and got me a guitar for Christmas.

It wasn't really until the 10th or 11th grade when I started to play well, and football took the place of baseball, which was my love when I was five years old. I don't know what happened; baseball just got boring to me, I guess.

My adolescent rebellions took the form of, if anything, passive aggressively doing what was asked of me but doing it ten times more than what was asked of me, so that eventually they'd have to beg me to stop.

I went to a high school, I took tests, I took finals, I went to football games - I did the whole thing. Because I really wanted to have that normalcy.