Dave Barry Quotes

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.

Watching kids go from the age of 9 and 10 to 13 is a big, huge jump. The way they speak, their looks, their attitudes, everything changes as you go from being a little kid to a teenager.

I'll never forget when I was 12 years old. I couldn't wait until the day I was 16 and could drive a car. I thought that'd be the end of life's problems. I mean, you can drive! What is there left? And then I turned 16 and realized there were still problems.

Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

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.

When you get to your mid-20s, you start to feel responsibilities for the things that you do and the people around you. It's a cool age.

Based on my own experience, when you're going through adolescence you don't know how the world works. You can't set a story in the world you live in because you don't know what a utility bill is, or how to budget your paycheck.

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.

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

Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.

I think I'm past the age of getting lost.

I realise I'm still a child, though I do feel older.

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.

When you're young, you worry about what other people think. The older you get, the less that matters.

Looking back, I realise I had to grow up and be responsible at a very tender age.

I think 30 is a big jump from your 20s, but 40 holds no fear for me.

At a young age, I had to give up a lot of things, like being able to hang out with my friends.

In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.

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