Quotes About Adolescence

My adolescence was a kind of motorway pile-up. I wish I had known that one day the geek would inherit the Earth.

I think when you are 17 you are very innocent.

The first album, I'd had some input, but I was 14 years old then, and I really didn't know what I was talking about.

I've always been insecure about dancing. I was when I was in high school.

When you're growing up, it's very easy to feel lonely and insecure.

Everyone is insecure, especially in high school.

No matter what age you are, I think if you're a girl or a boy, you're insecure. And it's not easy.

I think everybody goes through insecurities when they're younger, and everybody has to grow into their body.

When I got to high school, to be playing an instrument was really uncool.

I was a sort of New York intellectual when I was 16. I wanted to dress like Annie Hall when I was 18.

High school is very intense for everyone. But at a boarding school, because you're there 24 hours a day, everything gets magnified.

I have been involved with theatre since I was 13. I never seriously thought I would get into movies though I had every intention of continuing with theatre.

When I was growing up in the '70s and '80s, by the time you were 16, you were kind of expected to be an adult. By the time we were 16 and able to drive, certainly by 17 or 18 and into college, you just had very little interaction with your parents.

I was very much a late bloomer. That's not to say that girls didn't express interest in me from time to time, but I just, I did not know how to respond to that.

When I was 13 I asked my mother if it was possible for this to end - I'd had enough of it. And that was right about the time that we got a call for 'The Exorcist' interview.

She called Kaneesha, whose machine said, "If you want money, go away. If you want to sell me something, it better be clothes. If you are a friend, let's party soon. If this is Tanya, where's my red tank top? Later. Beep." She called Douglas, the one boy in school she felt comfortable with. They could talk about anything. His answering machine said, "I'm probably underneath my Camaro, but leave a message for when I'm vertical." Hannah sighed.

Twelve years old. I was happy. My friend had a Ouija board, asked when we were going to get our periods, looked down, and I saw blood.

Before my teen years, I was losing my hearing pretty quickly, and I was getting very, very angry. I was beginning to become an angry person because of that.

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?

ingest a lot of illicit chemicals. The murder smacks of drug-frenzied adolescence. The dismembered arm and leg, the slit throat. Spaced-out teenage boys who love gore and have low impulse control.

My adolescence progressed normally: enough misery to keep the death wish my usual state, an occasional high to keep me from actually taking the gas-pipe.

The last time I read piles of erotica by choice, I was fourteen. At that stage, having no experience with men beyond snogging, I took it all as gospel. Now, after I've lived a little, I read the same works again and think, 'Has this author ever really had sex?

Sui prati scoscesi volavano bassi i corvi, deformi, va na gloriosi, crudeli. Li avevi paragonati alla nostra adolescenza, mentre cercavano, nella terra intorno al collegio, dove mettere gli artigli.

Drill sergeant kids, who did a lot of saluting when they were young, will do a lot of saluting when teenagers, but the salute is different: a raised fist or a crude gesture involving the middle finger.