Prince Charles Quotes

Normal kids in their teens want to go and date girls and do mischievous things, your hormones are jumping around, but I stayed in my bedroom in search of something.

Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.

I think that the path that I took was normal in the American society where young women and men are not trained as to how to make the transition from being a girl to being a woman, from being a boy to being a man. And so I think that most young people in America live by trial and error, and not by parental instruction, community guidance.

I certainly could've gone off track many, many times in my youth.

Sixteen is a hard time. A lot of kids are experimenting with things.

Kids should be naughty and go through that rebellious phase I didn't have.

I can deal with it now, but 13 is a tough age to be recognized and famous. It's a tough age, period.

Fifteen is such a weird age to be. Nobody treats you like an adult, but you desperately want to be one. You still have these childlike aspects, but you're just kind of coming into the world.

I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things.

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.

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

It's depressing and scary, but he needs to know the world around him because he's fourteen now and in two years he's going to drive. He needs to know what goes on out in the world. I'm not going to always be there.

As a kid, I was mischievous, necessarily, but I always wanted to do adventurous stuff.

At the age of 14, I ran away from home for four days and hitchhiked around western Pennsylvania and southern Ohio.

That's why teenagers fascinate me - they're like children with drivers' licenses. Like children in that their impulses are so direct.

Everything about my teenage life was almost ideal.

17 is the weirdest age, because you can't figure out if you want to grow up or be a child.

I think teenagers at any time are testing to see how far they can go and where authority comes in.

As a young man, I experimented with everything.

The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed. It is better to treat an adolescent as if he had greater value than he actually shows than as if he had less and let him feel that his merits and self-respect are disregarded.

My mom never let me dye my hair, and I would beg her every single day. When I was 16, I told her I wanted to dye it purple, and she let me - probably because she never thought I'd actually do it. Then I just stuck with it.

Naughtiness is a part of growing up. It starts when you're a toddler and never ends.

With Free, we were teenagers, and, ummm, there was a lot of raging hormones.

I think the most important part of the teenage years is wondering.