Quotes about Adolescence
broken pocket mirror to try and catch a glimpse of me in the classroom.
- Anne Frank
Not only because I've never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl
- Anne Frank
High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.
- John Mayer
It is the land of perpetual pubescence, where cultural lag is mistaken for renaissance.
- Ashley Montagu
'Rebecca' by Daphne du Maurier was the first grown-up book I read, when I was aged about 12.
- Mary Nightingale
The founding fathers... provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called education. School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.
- John Updike
He was not the Model Boy of the village. He knew the model boy very well though—and loathed him.
- Mark Twain
I am now in my twenty-second year and yet the only birthday which I can clearly distinguish among all the rest is my twelfth, for it was on that damp and misty day in September I met the Captain for the first time.
- Graham Greene
I heard someone once say that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life.
- LM Montgomery
In two more years I'll be really grown up. It's a great comfort to think that I'll be able to use big words then without being laughed at." "Ruby
- LM Montgomery
All I know is that young boys sleep late and hard.
- Ernest Hemingway
As a teenager I went all Goth, but I wasn't mopey enough. I would pretend to be, but I'd end up making people laugh.
- Melissa McCarthy