Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

It's [high school] an interesting time in your life because you're trying to act older and mature but you really have no idea what you're doing. You're scared and it's okay to be scared. It's okay to not know completely what you want or what you should be doing and to stumble a little bit.

I wanted the Andy of Toy Story 3 to be right on the cusp, straddling childhood and adulthood ... I wanted to find this sweet spot where he had gotten tall and had clearly grown up but still retained many boyish qualities, including a boyish charm.

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

I was wanting to be a kid at 18 instead of being a young woman.

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've never run into a person who yearns for their middle school days.

Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults.

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.

Even in movies like 'Superbad,' they're all lovable kids.

I think the child I was until 12 was so much more interesting than the teenager I became.

High school is really when I came into my own.

Coming-of-age stories in high school are exciting because everything that happens during that time is very heightened.

Whoa. If high school was suppose to be the best years of my life - at least so far - I was truly destined to have a sucky adulthood.

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

Studs Lonigan, on the verge of fifteen, and wearing his first suit of long trousers, stood in the bathroom with a Sweet Caporal pasted on his mug.

High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.

For many of us, the curtain had just come down on childhood.

Four or five years - nothing at all. But no one over thirty could understand this peculiarly weighted and condensed time, from late teens to early twenties, a stretch of life that needed a name, from school leaver to salaried professional, with a university and affairs and death and choices in between. I had forgotten how recent my childhood was, how long and inescapable it once seemed. How grown up and how unchanged I was.

One doesn't remain a teenager forever.

When you become a teenager, you step onto a bridge. You may already be on it. The opposite shore is adulthood. Childhood lies behind. The bridge is made of wood. As you cross, it burns behind you.

Searching for a boy in high school is as useless as searching for meaning in a Pauly Shore movie.

I am a child who is getting on.

The hope was, people like me got to finally find our place in college or in the actual world. People who understood this told you that high school wasn't the actual world, that it was more like a temporary alternate reality you were forced to believe in for four years. A video game you played, where you could never get to the next level no matter how hard you tried.

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

You went up a girl and came down a woman.