Quotes About Puberty

I was still very much a kid but, suddenly, I had the body of a teenager. This is like waking up one day and finding out that your golden retriever puppy shoots lasers from its adorable puppy eyes. Someone is bound to get hurt.

I think everyone has their awkward phases. Growing up isn't easy for everyone. I definitely had my awkward moments.

They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs because it was beginning to photograph.

They had to start shaving my chin when I was 12 years old because light started to pick it up.

Before puberty, it seems like I was more or less smiling a lot. I was really outgoing and wanted to have a happy life.

As a woman of a certain age - and really, ever since I hit puberty and my baby-making parts were suddenly subject to public debate - I've been told over and over again that I will 'change my mind' about not wanting kids.

I was the best guy, you know, all through Little League and Pop Warner and that kind of stuff. But when I went to high school, I was undersized. I didn't grow. I was behind the whole puberty cycle. I didn't like high school.

After puberty, you look to one sex for more than friendship and to the other for less-than-complete intimacy.

I was about thirteen when I started letting boys feel me up.

I think it was Freud who said that we're all arrested at a certain age. For me, it was always 13.

I was quite short and chubby until I was 14, when I shot up.

Peter Parker is probably the most relatable superhero - maybe ever - because he goes through something that basically everyone has to go through. Whether it's puberty or talking to girls or doing homework, he does it in such a human way. That's why he's such a beloved character: because so many people can relate to him.

When I was a kid, I liked Superman. When I got a little older, I liked Wolverine. And then I found girls.

She's smiling that smile they smile before they grow bosoms.

Over a period of 10 to 12 years, beginning around puberty, the plasticity of the adolescent brain allows for rewiring. What the final wiring diagram looks like depends on two factors: what teens bring with them up to puberty and what experiences they have over the next 10 years or so.

One day a package of junior-sized tampons was left on my bed along with a pamphlet that looked technical and boring, so I didn't read it. Nothing was ever said to me about the tampons. It was just blind luck I didn't smoke them.

I was between A man and a boy, A hobble-de-hoy, A fat, little, punchy concern of sixteen.

The age of puberty is a crisis in the age of man worth studying. It is the passage from the unconscious to the conscious; from thesleep of passions to their rage.

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed.

As the previous chapter showed, mobile communities of foragers have good reasons to limit population growth. But if they settle down, those limits to population growth can be relaxed. Babies do not need to be carried so much; grain-based diets (particularly if foods are cooked) make it possible to wean children earlier; birth intervals will shorten; and females will reach puberty earlier.

I do remember vividly sometime after puberty when I'd answer the phone at home and the callers began to say, 'Hi, Bill!' That's when I knew Dad and I had the same voice.

When I tried to hit puberty I swung and I missed.

I hate being a teenager.""Why?""Hormones." With a sad half smile, he left.