Quotes About Adolescence

When you get to your teenage years, you want to find something that you identify with. It's almost a slight rebellion; you don't want to listen to what your parents listen to anymore; you want to find your own music. That, for me, was hearing the Fugees for the first time.

The relationship between parents and children who live together is a growing one, and it shifts every day, especially during the teenage years.

I definitely went through some dark teenage years. I wore black raccoon eyeliner every single day. I would be late to school if I didn't have time to put my eyeliner on.

Men fill up their heads and drawers and sheds with stuff from their teenage years.

No one escapes the teenage years without a lot of challenges. I had many. I was awkward. Petrified of boys.

I read a lot until was about 12, then as a teenager I was more interested in kissing boys. But I kept a diary for a few years, so words were a big part of my teenage years.

If you are a skinny, baby-faced teenager, the last thing you want to hear is that you're cute.

It's rough being a teenager in this day and age.

I was an incredibly lonely, very alienated teenager.

My mother's records were formative for me, but when I became a teenager, I wanted to find songs that she wasn't hip to. She was so hip, though, that I had to go outside rock n' roll - so for about 10 years, I only listened to hip-hop, house and techno.

I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.

Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.

As a teenager, I had big breasts for my age, and my friends cracked on me a lot.

It's tough being a teenager, man!

During teenager times, the feelings of longing is perhaps at its most strong and profound because everything feels multiplied by ten.

As a young ma,n I was an absolute idiot. I think my exes would say I was a likeable baby. I had a teenager's bedroom when I was 32.

A teenager usually wants to try to get people to notice him in some way, to feel like someone gives a damn. Me, all that attention, I just wanted to fade into the background. Be invisible. Disappear.

I would say I was an all-American teenager.

I'm, like, finishing up high school. I don't know how you can learn anything from me because I'm still, like, a teenager. I don't know what I'm doing with my life.

As I've said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager.

In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.

If a kid is old enough to drive a car or buy a gun, isn't he old enough to be held personally responsible for what he does with his car or gun? Or if he's a teenager, should someone else be blamed because he isn't as enlightened as an eighteen-year-old?

The 'Ms. Marvel' mantle has passed to 'Kamala Khan,' a high school student from Jersey City who struggles to reconcile being an American teenager with the conservative customs of her Pakistani Muslim family.

When you're an adult, things mellow out. I think when you're a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.