Quotes About Adolescence

At 14, I'd have given my left arm to be a boy: I thought I was horrible and that no-one would ever find me attractive.

Nobody at fifteen wants anybody to see how goofy their parents are.

We don't nod along as children go through adolescent decisions.

Director Lee Chang-dong's 1997 noir 'Green Fish.' I was attending middle school when I first watched the piece. And although I could not completely understand the film and where it was getting at, I still found it extremely powerful.

I'm a really good cook. I left home to start my career at 15 - so my choices were to either learn to cook or eat Ramen noodles for the rest of my life.

When my friends started to care about getting girlfriends, I really didn't. I started to think, literally, 'What's wrong with me?' and, 'Why can't I be normal like everybody else?'

Fans of the 'Inbetweeners' like the show because it is about four normal people, average guys or lower than average losers.

The shooting of the guns, that was kind of funny, because rolling a cigarette and shooting a gun aren't like normal things for a 13-year old girl!

In 1941 I finished at Allison Intermediate School (grades 7-9), and started at North High School, commuting by bicycle about 5 miles from home to school.

High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.

I left home at 15 to go to the North Carolina School of the Arts.

I broke my nose and got a concussion when I was 13.

I've hated my nose since I was 13.

In high school, I got smacked and kicked around. Two bloody noses. It was horrible.

You have to let kids be kids. Robbing them of their childhood and/or adolescence is not fair.

I think that from 15 to, like, 18, I went through a very rough time. Something basically everyone goes through in those years - not knowing what you're going to do.

I think all girls do struggle with image, despite not knowing what's going on with other people.

For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based on somebody I went to high school with.

Every other 16-year-old girl wanted to look at bridal magazines; I could not have been more bored with the notion.

'Great Expectations' was an important novel in my adolescence. It was very much one of those emblematic novels that made me wish I could write like that. It helped that my models as a writer were dead over a hundred years before I began to write.

I've loved 'Vanity Fair' since I was 16 years old. You know, we're all colonial hangovers in India, steeped in English literature. It is one of these novels that I read under the covers at my convent boarding school in Simla.

I went to an all-girls' Christian convent school run by nuns. It was fun, but when I was 15, I said, 'Mum, that's it - I need to go where there are some boys.'

In 1995, I was 27, and I completely got caught up in Blur and Oasis and the fashion of the time.

My children have gone to Catholic school... Part of their whole education is talking about the inner life and looking at your life, even though you're only 15 or 16 - thinking about your mortality, thinking about the value of your life, thinking about your obligations.