Tobin Heath Quotes

Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves.

When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe.

I didn't put out this album because I wanted everybody to know I was grown up. I'm 21 and that's not grown up.

You don't know who you are when you're 14.

If you've grown up in a church, college is a time you may branch away from that.

When we're growing up and being teenagers, oftentimes you try so hard to define yourself. You try to create an image of yourself because you don't really know who you are yet. And that can be kind of limiting because you forget that there are actually so many different sides of identity. And it's important to recognize that everyone is completely different.

I was raised as a Christian but the transaction has to be made by yourself - you and God - at some point.

The sacred duty of being an individual is to gradually learn how to live so as to awaken the eternal within you.

Really, I was such a late bloomer, I really didn't learn how to be me until I was in my late '40s, which is when I started playing roles that were closer to me.

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.

I like writing about teenagers because it's a time of great change and conflict. Up to then, you accept what your parents tell you.

I went to church as a kid, but it was as much a social thing as anything going to the youth group with the other kids and whatnot. It wasn't until I got out of college that I got on my own religious trip and started finding other things out there as well as philosophies. I've kinda been on my own spiritual path since then.

The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence.

Kids don't shuffle along in unison on the road to maturity. They slouch toward adulthood at an uneven, highly individual pace.

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.

I began to live as if there were no one save God and me in the world.

The orphan in children's literature allows the child protagonist to move the story forward themselves. I think that, however happy a family, every intelligent child thinks: 'How did I come to be born to these parents?' - it is about finding your place in the world.

I think I've been lucky enough to have had an extended adolescence. I'm a lot like I was when I was 15.

I was in high school, and when you get to be 14, 15, you start to feel a little more like your own person so that you can assert your adulthood a little bit.

Puberty is an extremely traumatic process even if you don't realize it. It kind of lives with you for like 10 years.

I love teenagers. I loved being a teenager.

No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren't cool, just to establish themselves. That's what adolescence is about. They're gonna go through that no matter what.

For me, God is in my life. I don't hide from that... I think the search has been on since the '60s.

I don't think I found out what I liked to wear until I was, like, 18.