Quotes About Adolescence

It's difficult to decide whether growing pains are something teenagers have — or are.

The average teenager still has all the faults his parents outgrew.

Do not nurse a kid who wears braces.

Don't let yourself forget what it's like to be sixteen.

He was a just a boy. They all were. Even the largest of them.

Werner sleeps in a tiny dormitory with seven other fourteen-year-olds. The bunk above belongs to Frederick: a reedy boy, thin as a blade of grass, skin as pale as cream. Frederick is new too. He's from Berlin. His father is assistant to an ambassador. When Frederick speaks, his attention floats up, as though he's scanning the sky for something.

They lie on their stomachs and page through comics, feeling the pleasure of being outside of school, glancing at each other now and then as if curious to learn whether their friendship will continue to exist in another place.

For those of you who may be homeschooled: high school is that four-year asylum where they put teenagers because we have no idea what else to do with them.

Gaius was now thirteen years old and well able to understand the seriousness of the situation.

I vividly remember being 14. That was the age when I started to get happy: I started being a writer and stopped being a loser.

Adolescence is such a fun time in your life, because you think you know it all, and you haven't gotten to the point where you realize that you know almost nothing.

One of my favorite films is 'Psycho,' which I saw when I was 12.

Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.

Puberty was the most horrifying time of my life.

I had curly hair, braces, pimples - you talk about going through puberty and the worst things that go with it, I had it, for sure. And then I had a bottom retainer, so my lisp was really bad. I still have a minor one when I get really excited.

What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.

When I was 14 years old, I decided I could cook. It was either that or puberty.

Kids whose puberty begins too soon face not just psychological risks, but physical ones too, with an increased likelihood of cancer, as well as skeletal changes that could prevent them from attaining their full adult height.

When it comes to age, I just feel like puberty is, like, the most horrible time of anyone's life.

I genuinely hit puberty before everyone.

If I can help get anybody through puberty, I say, 'Good!'

I was so awkward and gangly, and went through puberty way too young - I got really self-conscious about it.

Looking at me now, it might be hard to believe that I didn't even have hair in my armpits when I graduated from high school. I guarantee you I was the last guy to go through puberty in my class.

I didn't hit puberty until I was, like, 17, so I love to talk about that.