Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

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

When you are 8 or 9, you should have a childhood. You should have adolescence. You should go through everything in a normal way.

It's a bit different when you're 16 as to when you're 20. You're a little bit more developed and mature in your body.

On her daughter: And she's going through all these changes. You know, it's just crazy times.

You know...it's a hard age. Kids are in that stage where they're beginning to understand the world of adults, without having the maturity of adults to deal with everything going on around them.

I was approaching adolescence. For some reason, I guess my mother thought it would be less crazy out in the suburbs, which it wasn't. I just think adolescence is hard for anyone.

The difference between a childhood and a boyhood must be this: our childhood is what we alone have had; our boyhood is what any boy in our environment would have had.

What is the use of being a little boy if you are growing up to be a man.

Yet the summer which was to change everything was coming nearer every day. When boys and girls are growing up, life can't stand still, not even in the quietest of country towns; and they have to grow up, whether they will or no. That is what their elders are always forgetting.

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.

When you become a teenager, you step onto a bridge. You may already be on it. The opposite shore is adulthood. Childhood lies behind. The bridge is made of wood. As you cross, it burns behind you.

I remember adolescence, the years of having the impulse control of a mousetrap, of being as private as a safe-deposit box.

I was a happy kid up until I hit the teen years.

I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.

When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.

To me, White Boy Shuffle is sort of like Catcher in the Rye, the story is so universal.

It's always a really great feeling when I talk to people who watched 'Jett Jackson' because we were the same age. We were all kids. I was 13 when I started working on that show, and that was part of my childhood.

I find the subject of childhood fascinating. I explored this subject in Speak to me of love and I am curious about portraying the often painful transition into the adult world.

I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.

Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.

Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.

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

I'm scared of the day I turn 19. I really don't want to grow past 18.

You get 12 years of childhood, give or take.

I remember, when I was a little kid, I was good at sports, and I could jump off the high board. And then puberty hit, and suddenly I was looking to boys for direction. I remember that as a great loss.