Quotes About Adolescence

You should see my baby pictures. My cheeks hung off my face like water balloons. You can imagine how often I was teased.

I was teased up until high school about my hair, being short, my high pitched voice, and just anything you can think of.

Oakland Technical High School. Like any high-school experience, it was ambiguous. I was shy with girls; I had friends, but there were times I didn't feel I had the right friends. My grades were only so-so.

When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.

Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.

I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown.

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

'Catcher in the Rye.' I feel like any brooding teen loves that book.

I was considered chubby as a teen.

By no means do we think, 'Oh, it's cool to be a teen mom.' I definitely don't think that it's cool.

I fell in love with Erica Kane the summer before my freshman year of high school. Like all red-blooded teen American boys, I'd come home from water polo practice and eat a box of Entenmann's Pop'Ems donut holes in front of the TV while obsessively fawning over 'All My Children' and Erica, her clothes, and her narcissistic attitude.

Teen boys are a huge mess.

Final Destination was the closest thing I've done to a teen movie but it certainly had an edge to it.

If you try to bring 'teen drama,' you end up doing nothing but pouting.

I was a happy kid up until I hit the teen years.

I've always enjoyed teen characters, and kids as well. For whatever reason, I seem to have an ability to do it sort of well, and I enjoy doing it.

That can be the most painstaking aspect of being a teen, figuring out what the world really looks like. If you find someone in a book, you know you're not alone and that's what's so comforting about books.

Certain elements of teen life that, 10 years ago, were very important to me still, are becoming less so as I get older. I mean, I've kinda gotten over, I guess I'm saying, the fact that I had trouble getting a date for the prom.

I just felt being part of my peer group so strongly. I was immersed in teen culture, but not taken in by it.

As a white teen, I was very drawn to hip-hop culture, almost to the point of disappearing in it - there was a sense of having no sense of authenticity except this one that wasn't mine.

Jughead, to me, was reflective of a teen experience that made a lot of sense to me.

Growing up, I didn't have a chance to watch a lot of films. It wasn't until my teen years that I had to chance to see the classic films.

I've never really been a rebellious teen.