Quotes About Adolescence

I was probably 12 or 13 when I started doing pushups, situps, dips.

I had two older brothers who kept dirty mags under their mattresses. They didn't know I knew.

By the time I turned 12, I was a 5-foot 10-inch social disaster. Towering over my friends was the bane of my adolescence.

At 14 I discovered girls. At that time dancing was the only way you could put your arm around the girl. Dancing was courtship.

For many of us, our proms were less Walt Disney's 'Cinderella' and more Stephen King's 'Carrie.' The less we spent on them, the better.

When I was in high school. I was considered really weird and strange, and people kind of kept their distance.

Girls were always my biggest distraction in school.

I was never a big fashion person, and so I'm sure I wore whatever. I was growing, and so I just wore whatever clothes that weren't that expensive and made sense at the time. But I'm sure that I look back and say, 'What was I thinking?' My adolescence was more in the '80s, and that's more my cross to bear.

Going through adolescence looking like a hormone experiment wasn't easy.

I was a normal kid. I can't explain how normal I was.

High school is such an awkward, difficult time, and I think a lot of people can't wait to explore the world because it's such a bubble.

Girls around the age of 14 to 18 are deciding who they are and exploring relationships, they're ready to take charge of their life. Boys aren't as confident at that age. They want music that deals with their emotions for them.

My earliest memory of freedom was when I was about 14 and I stopped caring what people thought about me! I was so free and in charge! That whole year I was exploring myself, and I was so 'free' that I got sent away to boarding school.

I think I've been lucky enough to have had an extended adolescence. I'm a lot like I was when I was 15.

My awkward stage extended well into high school.

A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.

Girls are crazy and mean. They don't fight fair.

There's not a lot of good content to write about when you're 13 years old, so you just have to kind of fake it.

I was complexed and awkward that I was good for nothing and was always lying. I would lie to my school friends that I was a stud in my colony and to my colony friends that I was a stud in the school cricket and football teams, though I was in no team.

I was heavily into sport from 10 to 15, I was in all the teams, and it was everything to me. But I was very young for my school year and when puberty kicked in for my classmates I got left behind.

I ran out of tears when I was 14.

I was so dorky up until I was about 14 or 15 and started to get a little bit cooler, but I was a socks and sandals girl. I would wear big frilly socks with sandals and all the kids would tease me.

Kids used to tease me unmercifully about that name.

When you're younger, being a redhead is... Well, my two brothers teased me no end.