Quotes About Adolescence

Looking back on his adolescence from the vantage point of his mid-eighties, George H.W. Bush candidly admitted, "I might have been obsessed with bodies – boobs they are now called. But what seventeen-year-old kid was not? Guilty am I.

My protagonists are my mother's voice and the mind I had when I was thirteen.

That spring when I was sixteen, more than anything else in the world I wanted to be a success when I grew up. I did not know that there was any other way of being loved.

I was the kid who made a beeline for the library when the last bell rang, but also harder, because how do you define yourself against such an identity? On what grounds? With what confidence?

Accept the fact that girls squeal when they're happy or confused or excited or scared or because they just saw a certain boy in line.

Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it it was my great refuge through adolescence.

If you thought eighth grade was tough, try it with fangs and a fear of garlic.

So with nothing to do but algebra, Vlad settled down in front of the television with controller in hand.

People give you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn't want to give you Halloween candy anymore. They said things like, "If this were the Middle Ages, you'd be married and you'd own a farm with about a million chickens on it." They were trying to kick you out of childhood. Once you were gone, there was no going back, so you had to hold on as long as you could.

Why is it that girls think boys will notice them if they're loud anyway.

Fitting in and being normal doesn't exist; not for a few years in the middle.

They don't say what they mean." "No one says what they mean." "No one says what they mean all the time. Most people say what they mean sometimes. Usually." "Teenagers done know what they mean.

It's easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school.

It's easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school.

Why did girls never play air guitar? Did we sing along because singing was what girls did or was it that girls only sang because they didn't play air guitar? These are not questions I asked myself at the time. I was pushing away such complications.

You know, I don't think a lot about why one book connects with its readers and another doesn't. Probably because I don't want to start thinking, "Am I popular?" I spent way too much time thinking about that in high school.

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

I never played much golf as a kid. I caddied quite a bit but never got serious into golf until about age 15.

The older your teenagers are, the more they will have their own ideas and opinions. If you take them seriously, rather than assuming your ideas are always best and the only ones, you will begin to grow a relationship that will extend beyond the hormone-group years.

A fourteen-year-old boy should never have to ask the questions Who is my mother? and Who are my family? These were not easy questions to formulate in the mind or the mouth because the question comes with others . . . What did I do to deserve this?

Like most fourteen-year-olds, she was right-handed, so the rocks skipped farther across the murky water when Violet used her right hand then when she used her left.

I learned lots of dirty jokes very young. There was this girl who told me them. The gang I led went in for shoplifting and pulling girls' knickers down. Other boys' parents hated me.

romantic weltschmerz, a state of feeling thought to be basically subversive yet in most cases, like 'beat' rebelliousness today, adolescent and harmless.

Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life.