Quotes About Adolescence

As a teenager, you're still discovering who you are, what your life is about, and who you want to be as a person. It's very intense.

The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we've all gone through that period. It's not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynamic.

Adolescence is not only an important period in life, but that it is the only period where one may speak of life in the full sense of the word.

I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis.

I had quite a religious upbringing. I gave my life over to Christ at 11. I took it back when I was about 14.

The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life.

In no order of things is adolescence the time of the simple life.

I spent three of the best years of my life in 10th grade.

Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one.

I been drunk most my life, don't ask me why. Through ninth grade, I ain't go to high school, ...I went to school high.

Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural knots in it. Yet knots form, nearly always in adolescence.

I discovered makeup when I was 13, and it changed my life. I started wearing mascara, and overnight, people reacted to me in a very different way - I was more popular and I felt more confident.

Stages of life are artifacts. Adolescence is a useful contrivance, midlife is a moving target, senior citizens are an interest group, and tweenhood is just plain made up.

High School Is Life's Way of Giving You a Record Low to Judge the Rest of Your Life By)

I feel like I didn't know who I was when I was 15. I don't feel like you're who you are for life, not even when you're 20.

Anybody who has a problem with 'Skins' obviously doesn't understand teenage life.

The reason for my starting a diary is that I have no real friend.

I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.

You have a wonderful child. Then, when he's 13, gremlins carry him away and leave in his place a stranger who gives you not a moment's peace.

You have a wonderful child. Then, when he's thirteen, gremlins carry him away and leave in his place a stranger who gives you not a moment's peace.

A girl's apprenticeship was girlhood itself. A

What would she have thought as a teenage girl arranging her artfully wasted limbs against the dais of a highly conceptual sculpture?

I do not miss my toys. I wouldn't play with them anyway. I am fifteen. I miss my childhood.

What I mean is, when I look at other people, other girls in school, and see what they like and what they're happy with and what they want, I don't feel as if I'm a part of their species. And sometimes--sometimes I don't care.