Quotes About Adolescence

I was very energetic and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.

I started out myself rather late you see, I was 18.

In my 20s, I was 16. So I was a late bloomer. I was still very much a child when I was in my 20s.

I grew up watching Cinemax, the late-night Cinemax of the '80s and early '90s.

At school people laughed at me, not with me.

I started liking basketball when I was 13, but I couldn't play because my dad thought it was too physical.

I always loved acting, but when you get older and you're going through adolescence, the roles are limited.

Sometimes I was like Beavis and Butt-head growing up. I know people who lit their friend's house on fire accidentally.

Then again, I think about high school every day and I think about being a little kid every day too.

I didn't fit in at school, and I didn't fit in at home, and I didn't know why. I was often lonely.

I was a bit of a loner at school because I was into what I was into, that sort of scene; that is where the whole mod thing started, when I was 14-15.

I was probably the only kid in school that had long hair.

Obviously I went through my adolescence on national TV, but it's great looking back.

Not only was it Def Leppard I was into when I was 15, but 'Watermark' by Enya. I loved it.

I grew up on Loretta Lynn and Dusty Springfield. I remember lying about it; it wasn't cool to listen to country when I was 12.

I only know the lyrics to songs that I listened to between the ages of 11 and 15.

Once I turned 13, I was the guy magnet.

I never really wore makeup in high school; I wasn't really into it yet, which is probably good.

I wasn't the one managing my career back then, that was the problem - I was 14 years old.

Until I was about 13, Manhattan had been a world seen from its edges.

and the boys made fun of her skinny legs that were always bruised and cut from her tomboyish antics at the ranch. There was one special boy, Jake Weldon. Maggie pretended not to notice him. He was one of the boys who made fun of her, and it hurt really

Oh! Polly thought. Why aren't all girls locked up by law the year they turn fifteen? They do such stupid things!

If you mean that boys are easy to deal with, Christopher said, I'm afraid this is not the case. Not boys from Twelve A. And not girls either, the Goddess said loudly. Not from anywhere.

people do lose sight of their ideals quite often in adolescence and young adulthood; they tend to see life as far too complex and then come up with the idea that things are only real and valid if they are unpleasant or boring.