James St. James Quotes

I have a 15-year-old daughter who thinks that I always had this self confidence that I have now at the age of 60. And I always tell her that what she is going through - the low self-esteem as a teenager - that is a right of passage.

Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It's when you make your best friends - I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks.

I mean, I like to think of myself as being strong and independent, but I definitely wasn't like that at 14.

When you're growing up, you realize you've got a lot of heavy things on your shoulders.

The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your face.

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

Adolescence, that swampy zone between safety and power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense and mercy, not guns and a badge.

Potomac School proved to be my first big adjustment - one that helped me with a basic lesson of growing up: learning to get along in whatever world one is deposited.

Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride.

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

I'm an 18-year-old boy, and I'm having fun. I'm just not having as much fun as people make out.

I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back.

As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

I started out myself rather late you see, I was 18.

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.

I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.

I think everyone has their awkward phases. Growing up isn't easy for everyone. I definitely had my awkward moments.

I feel like I've started to grow up and be more of a woman instead of this crazy girl.

I was a pretty shy, lonely kid. I blossomed about age 17, when I went to college.

I think that the main thing that you can learn from watching 'The Spectacular Now' is just learning about growing up and moving on.

When I was 15, I was naive, looked like a grey mouse and felt second choice.

At 13 years old, I was doing grown-man things, so I know who I am, and I'm telling people who I am.

There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.