Quotes About Adolescence

I was bullied. I was a bit of a geek. Good-looking guys were off-limits. I didn't start dating until I was 18.

When I was 14 or 15, a camp counselor told me I was smart. I had never been very good in school, but he told me once that I was smart but my mind operated a little differently.

You can certainly extend your adolescence. There's people that are very good at extending it indefinitely.

I'm not very good in a classroom sort of setting. I never was. I was kind of a clown in high school - got suspended a lot.

Boys,' she says, 'just aren't very good at being afraid.

My kid was a great baseball player. I thought I had it made. Front-row seats at Yankee Stadium. Then he turned sixteen and wanted to be a rapper.

Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn't have that experience.

With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.

When girls walk home we put on lippy and makeup. We chat. Sometimes we pretend to be hunchbacks. But that is it. Perfectly normal behavior.

I was home-schooled for my entire high school experience, so I never went to prom.

I'm actually the last person to ask about school. I kinda ducked out at 12, before all that stuff might have happened. I left school after sixth grade and was basically home-schooled after that.

So when I was 13, I basically left home and never returned and lived at home again. I would come home for a week at Christmas and two weeks in the summer only.

I saw myself as an outsider as a teen. I was home-schooled and got my G.E.D. when I was 16; I wasn't interested in high school at all and figured that college might be more entertaining.

I genuinely haven't really had a rebellious phase. I think it's just because of the way I was brought up. I think it's because I left home when I was ten years old.

Sending grown-ups up the wall is one of the things adolescence is all about. A few years ago it was done with rock 'n' roll music. Now at least they can do it quietly with a home computer.

I didn't go to high school, so I don't have a high school experience. I was home-schooled during high school.

You hope you're saying the right things - but also, as a kid becomes a teenager, you feel like there's a ticking clock for you to tell them everything they need to know.

Only those with skin as thick as elephant hide can hope to sail through their teens unscathed by self-doubt and bouts of depression.

Adolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself.

Prison is like high school with knives.

When I tried to hit puberty I swung and I missed.

When I was 14, I saw someone getting their face and wrists slashed with a knife in a pub in Catford. Nobody lifted a finger. That's when I realised that violence wasn't funny. At all.

Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.

Head gear, plus acne equals...table for one in the cafeteria.