Quotes About Adolescence

Parents, just keep in mind that kids will always round off to the nearest obscenity.

I wasnt particularly funny in high school, but I grew up with three older brothers who were quite funny.

I was never pretty, never really popular. I was lanky and funny looking.

Perv."He pointed to himself. "Male and eighteen. What's your point?

...that was before I'd started thinking about how life stuck on a ship wouldn't be so bad if Elder walked around pantless more.

When Matthew merely stared at him, Jackson reached into the weapon box and pulled out a sheathed machete, handing it to the boy.Matthew laughed and dropped it.

I would never say snog. I would say osculate." She looks at me as if to say: why do you exist?

I overheard Nona talking about my little buds and how she remembered back when she was developing into a woman, and that was enough for me.

She must have been very anxious about a first boy friend to fall in love with a Colgate boy

I was, like, this token teen angst child of Broadway. It's so funny. What is that? I don't even know. But I loved it.

The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.

There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunities for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.

Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth.

We used to play spin the bottle when I was a kid. A girl would spin the bottle and if it pointed to you when it stopped, the girl could either kiss you or give you a dime. By the time I was 14, I owned my own home.

I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face.

Have you seen their teeny beards? I had more hair when I was born!

The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.

I've always liked high school. I'm not deluded, of course. I know these aren't the best years of my life, but as a subject and experience, it's pretty interesting.

Inside every man is a teenage boy, and we're -all- crazy in love with Shulky.

She watched me search for seven minutes and forty seconds, then said, "Can I ask you a question?" I never know how to answer this. Should I go with my first impulse, which is always "no" or just give in to the inevitable? I said, "Is it contract-relevant?" Big, adolescent human sigh noise. "I just want to understand something." I gave in to the inevitable. "Yes.

In adolescence students are suddenly turned loose on books worth reading, but generally don't know how to read them.

Destiny Wallace was just fourteen years old but she looked at least nineteen or twenty - and that was in her school uniform. Annie couldn't help but wonder if evolution was to blame, because most of the girls in this particular group all looked like clones of each other. Well, or of Kim Kardashian or another famous person, famous for no other reason that that were famous for basically doing fuck-all constructive.

At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?