Quotes About Adolescence

I have a daughter who is a sophomore in college and another who is in the 11th grade of high school.

I was always embarrassed because my dad wore a suit and my mother wore flat pumps and a cozy jumper while my friends' parents were punks or hippies.

I was hanging out with some of what my mother would consider the wrong kind of kids. With no direction, no motivation. I would hang out in the lunchroom all day, or the handball courts

Until adolescence I thought I had the best mother in the world. Such a graceful mother. I had this fantasy that I was the wrong daughter.

You know, I used to warm the thermometer on the light bulb... I was really good at being sick. I could forge my mother's signature on a sick note so well I was hardly ever at school.

I get some letters from girls that if their mothers knew what they were writing me in these letters, they'd get their butts whipped.

All my friends went to the Madonna concert when I was in, maybe, the 9th grade, and my mother refused to let me go.

A mother's job... is very much to hold back the coming of manhood.

My mother started taking us to church when I was in seventh or eight grade. That was always a question, Do you believe in God?

(Yes teenage boys who are fine always cry on their mothers' shoulders until they leave a snot trail.)

So, am I friendly with my daughter and her friends? Yes. Am I their friend? No. Does she shut the door? Yes, and I very much support the shut door.

Mother my friends are no longer my friends And the games we once played have no meaning I've gone serious and shy and they can't figure why So they've left me to my own daydreaming.

My mother's a staunch feminist, so I grew up with very strong feminist messages. As a result, I battled her in my teenage years because my image of being a man was a deformed one.

I always resented books that tried to teach a lesson, where the characters are too good: They don't swear, they tell their mothers everything.

When a 12-year-old, a 13-year-old, so desperately wants a baby what she's looking for is the kind of unconditional love a child gives a mother and a mother gives a child.

When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.

I was approaching adolescence. For some reason, I guess my mother thought it would be less crazy out in the suburbs, which it wasn't. I just think adolescence is hard for anyone.

I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.

By the time I was a senior in high school, I was constantly with my headphones, just making music all the time. People were calling me a "musician", and I found that so weird.

I was 13 and my mom was a librarian so I told her to check out every music book she could possibly find. I wanted to know the business part of being in the music business.

In middle school, I really didn't have music, but in high school, I remember taking a lot of choir and drama.

When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.

I'd never been a tall guy, and the girls I'd dated had all been my height--teenaged girls grow faster than guys, which is a cruel trick of nature.

No one's serious at seventeen, When lindens line the promenades