Quotes About Adolescence

Teens often resent guidelines and rebel at firm limits because they've grown to think differently than when they were younger.

Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.

Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

We fall in love or stay in love with people who are unsuitable or who no longer love us and, conversely, we feel no love towards people who would be very suitable. Love is involuntary, that's the problem. Our personal histories prepare us to be attracted to people who unconsciously evoke emotions from our childhood or adolescence.

Am încetat s? socializez de teama altor dezam?giri. În adolescen?? m? s?turasem s? urmez jocul altora, care, la un moment dat, te l?sau cu ochii în soare tocmai când aveai mai mult? nevoie de ei. Pe de alt? parte, nici s? g?se?ti oameni cu care s? por?i o conversa?ie cât de cât interesant? nu e u?or.

was brought up as a wee Glasgow Catholic. As a consequence, I went to a really weird school: Our Lady of Perpetual Pre-Menstrual Tension. It was fucking hard going, let me tell you.

Peer pressure accounts for much of the promiscuous sex in high schools and colleges. "Conform or get lost." Since no one enjoys losing friends or being cast out of his own circle, peer pressure—especially during the years of adolescence—is an almost irresistible force.

In earlier periods of history, adolescence was virtually unknown . . . Today, the span between childhood and adulthood may extend over ten years. Deferred adulthood is synonymous with deferred responsibility.

He holds me. I am his in a way he probably isn't even aware of. Boys shouldn't know what power they have. They would panic probably or just mess things up. But boys are who you give yourself to. Not your parents or your teachers or your "future". You give yourself to a boy. And then you go for long walks at night and think about them and wonder what they will do to you in the end.

Boys shouldn't know what power they have. They would panic probably, or just mess things up. But boys are who you give yourself to. Not your parents, or your teachers, or your "future." You give yourself to a boy. And then you go for long walks at night and think about them and wonder what they will do to you in the end.

If I had to describe Trish, I would say: "high school parking lot." She smokes. She wears too much makeup. She probably gives great hand jobs.

Teenagers complain there's nothing to do, then stay out all night doing it.

I've got to bring out the big ammunition on sex education. The bra and girdle section of Sears just isn't doing it.

Teenage kids have no sense of mortality -- yours or theirs.

Growing up, she'd decided, was never easy. Adolescence is a war zone, no matter where you live.

He was no longer a child, barely an adolescent, really, moving too hard and too fast into adulthood.

See there? Jem was scowling triumphantly. Nothin' to it. I swear, Scout, sometimes you act so much like a girl its mortifyin

When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.

As I made my way home, I thought Jem and I would get grown but there wasn't much else left for us to learn, except possibly algebra.

Cal had told her all girls had it, it was natural as breathing, it was a sign they were growing up, and they had it until they were in their fifties. At the time, Jean Louise was so overcome with despair at the prospect of being too old to enjoy anything when it would finally be over, she refrained from pursuing the subject.

It had never fully occurred to Jean Louise that she was a girl: her life had been one of reckless, pummeling activity; fighting, football, climbing, keeping up with Jem, and besting anyone her own age in any contest requiring physical prowess. When she was calm enough to listen, she considered that a cruel practical joke had been played upon her: she must now go into a world of femininity, a world she despised, could not comprehend nor defend herself against, a world that did not want her.

L'estate significava per me Dill accanto alla vasca dei pesci che fumava sigarette di canapa; significava gli occhi di Dill che brillavano mentre almanaccava complicati progetti per stanare Boo Radley; l'estate significava Dill che mi baciava, rapido, quando Jem non ci guardava, significava le nostalgie che ciascuno di noi provava e che l'altro intuiva: con lui la vita era normale; senza di lui, insopportabile.

With rough gentleness the big boys taught her to shoot craps and chew tobacco without losing it. The big girls giggled behind their hands most of the time and whispered among themselves a great deal, but Jean Louise considered them useful when choosing sides for a volleyball match. All in all, it was turning out to be a wonderful year.