Newt Gingrich Quotes

Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.

I just wanted to do something about the teenage experience; it's such a wonderful and horrible time of life.

I don't believe the United States is going through a midlife crisis. The United States is going through an adolescent crisis.

The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence.

I think when you're 14 years old, I think you're sort of looking for markers that prove you're an adult and you're independent of your parents.

No matter where you are or where you grow up, you always go through the same awkward moments of being a teenager and growing up and trying to figure out who you are.

Adolescence is a plague on the senses.

Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults.

Most of what I've written songs about are things that come out of the confusing emotional, spiritual and psychological period of time when you're going through puberty.

I love teenagers. I loved being a teenager.

The teenage years are such a great subject because everything is heightened and on the surface, and it deals with universal emotions that we face even as we get older.

It's interesting because, even with 'Beetlejuice,' I was an awkward kid. I started at puberty and went through it on film. Lydia was one of my favorite roles because I related to her a lot.

I think there's so much to play in adolescence; there's so many conflicting things happening and so many changes, and there's just a lot of good stuff to play there as an actor.

When you're an adolescent, you suddenly wake up one morning and your body is an enemy. There are hormonal changes, physical changes, emotional changes. People are saying to you, 'Now you have to make the decisions that define the rest of your life.' The X-Men takes those elements and pushes them one giant step farther.

I think that until we're 21, human beings don't get to know themselves very much.

You don't know who you are when you're 14.

Adolescence in our culture for a young woman, for a girl, is a hard road.

I've realized that I will probably write about teenagers and that time in people's lives - I'll probably come back to it a lot.

Coming-of-age stories in high school are exciting because everything that happens during that time is very heightened.

When you're a teenager, a year can be crippling to maneuver through. Some things happen when you're like 13. All of a sudden you go from being this really confident, no-worry little kid to having all these weird insecurities for no reason.

Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.

One doesn't remain a teenager forever.

Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time.

Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience.

Eighteen is a terrible age, and while I walked around with the conviction that I was somehow more grown-up than my classmates, the truth was that I had merely found a different way of being young.