Quotes About Adolescence

I now know how uncomfortable most parents have it when they're having the sex talk with their children.

'True Life: I Have A Hot Mom' is easily my favorite True Life.

Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.

In grade school I was smart, but I didn't have any friends. In high school, I quit being smart and started having friends.

Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives.

Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.

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.

I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.

He was thirteen that year, the age when children splinter off and abandon the old loves.

Studies suggest that the part of a boy's brain that controls judgment does not fully develop until his mid-twenties. And that gap between mind and body – a body that could suddenly do what a man could do and a mind that still thought like a boy – could put his son's future in jeopardy. Throughout the history of man, testosterone and stupidity had never joined together to produce a good result. Frank wondered if he could protect his son from himself. He

People's early experiences shape how crazy or how sane they become.

Parents don't understand kids and kids don't understand parents. My parents were divorced when I was really young and I went to live with my dad.

Pino stared at his brother, hearing the frightened questions the D'Angelos and Mrs. Napolitano were firing at him, and feeling completely overwhelmed. He was only seventeen, after all. Part of him wanted to sit against the wall, hang his head, and cry.

Young people are the same as they always were. They are just as ignorant.

School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.

Adolescence begins when children stop asking questions-because they know all the answers.

The best time to have a baby is when you're a black teenager.

I don't know if I was a funny kid. I would say I was a loud and weird kid.

Because their bones are growing, they can only sleep in certain positions, obviously. The crucifix and the swastika tend to be the most popular. Sometimes a combination of the two.

In school I was always the funny-looking, tall, skinny kid that got made fun of because of my weird teeth.

What I would do in order to be popular was, I'd put myself on line and joke around and be funny, and I was always known as the crazy kid.

I try to think of something catchy to say, but there's nothing but irritation that something that was funny yo an eleven-year-old boy is still funny to a seventeen-year-old one.

At school I was very shy. I wasn't funny really.

Until I was about 14, I was a fat boy, or at least I looked like a fat boy. I think that being funny was a bit of a defence mechanism for me, so I ended up being a bit of a joker.