John Marston Quotes

It's so easy for 16-year-olds, including myself, to say, 'I just wish I were an adult.' But we can't wish our lives away. When we're adults, we'll say, 'I wish I were 16 again.'

I can't pretend to be a teenager, but I feel like I never really stopped being a teenager.

I was just 13 when 'The Big Chill' was released in late September 1983, so I didn't catch all of its nuances when I sneaked into the theater to see it. But I could tell one thing for sure: These people were grown-ups.

I love being a teen because you don't have all the responsibilities of an adult yet.

I'm not really in a rush to grow up.

When you're young - I probably still am at 23, though I don't feel so young anymore - you have your ups and downs.

We all are so serious when we are younger.

I think when you are 17 you are very innocent.

When we are no longer children, we are already dead.

Don't try to make me grow up before my time.

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.

I used to be a child. It came naturally to me. I was an adult for a time, too. That came less naturally.

I took the stairs and felt like my childhood took the elevator.

I have a lot of stories about being a kid because it was the last time I was interesting.

To be young, really young, takes a very long time.

A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour!

We carry adolescence around in our bodies all our lives. We get through the Car Crash Age alive and cruise through our early twenties as cool dudes, wily, dashing, winsome . . . shooting baskets, the breeze, the moon, and then we try to become caring men, good husbands, great fathers, good citizens.

I am a child who is getting on.

What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child?

Life, just as we first thought, is playing grownup.

Youth is a malady of which one becomes cured a little every day.

Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.

I have a lot more things to talk about now because I'm an adult.

I'm a boy who doesn't want to grow up.

We live a protracted adolescence. At some point you must leave the party.