Donny Osmond Quotes

Baby, high school's over. High school's never over.

If I can help get anybody through puberty, I say, 'Good!'

If you have created an image of yourself at 13 and it is still with you at 17, it needs to be dropped.

Doesn't every generation feel like the one that's coming up behind them doesn't know how to grow up? I'm not sure if we're progressively getting worse or if your perspective shifts.

Everything you listen to when you are 17 should be embarrassing, otherwise you are way too cool.

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

Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.

You never grow out of high school sadly.

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.

I'm quite disappointed that I'll never relive my teenage years.

I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.

I look back at my adolescence, and I'm shocked at the things I did that were my idea of adult behavior.

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

For the most part, I've stayed as far away as possible from high school movies. I just don't find them to be that relatable to everybody? They become like this: 'Look at that period of time. Isn't that interesting?'

Leaving Nickelodeon was definitely an adjustment. Because then, it was back to the real world of, 'Now I'm an adult looking for a job,' as opposed to a kid that's getting introduced to all these people like, 'Look how cute this little kid is. Don't you want to put him on your show?'

With 'Dazed and Confused,' I got the high school experience I didn't get to have.

Many of us spend the first part of our adult lives becoming - stepping into the roles we take on so that they come to define our lives. But I've learned that we don't really grow up until we unbecome.

I remember being 12 or 13 and reading 'Seventeen' and 'CosmoGirl.' They were all about self-improvement.

When you're 12, you have no gauge for what's hip or not hip - or even who you are.

It’s part of growing up, I suppose…you always have to leave something behind you.

When we talk of leaving our childhood behind us, we might as well say that the river flowing onward to the sea had left the fountain behind.

These are the pieces of my youth, the small secrets and the not-so-great expectations that defined my coming of age.

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

We all, to some degree, wish we could have some element of our childhood back again while, for kids, moving on is something they're worried about. They know it's going to happen at some point.

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.