Florence Henderson Quotes

I arrived when I was a kid; I was just 17. I would have liked to have played more, but I learned a lot in Manchester.

I left the Midwest when I was twelve years old, and I haven't lived in a small town since.

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 was just a bumpkin. Just a country bumpkin. I had just come to New York from Virginia. Or was it Baltimore?

I grew up in a really small town. I had a great friend group and an amazing community of people who were supporting and loving and moving out to L.A. it was really hard to find that. Especially just starting off my teen years.

I think there's a level of ignorance, when, in the callowness of youth, you imagine that you are inventing the world for the first time. You imagine that your parents don't know what it feels like to fall in love.

Yes, but I don't think of the Teen Angel as of an age.

You never forget the discovery years. First kisses. The first time you try certain foods.

I grew up in St. Louis, and I just couldn't wait until I turned 18 because I wanted to move to New York.

I grew up in London, Ontario, and moved to Toronto when I was 22 or 23.

The best substitute for experience is being sixteen.

New York grabbed me too hard, as did adulthood.

Very intense first summer out, to be 18 years old and never having gone on a date, never having smoked a cigarette, never had a drink, even a sip of beer, never kissed a girl, all of those things. It made for a fairly intense first year out.

Once upon a time, they thought I was a sweet, wide-eyed boy that was just trying to figure out how to kiss the girl. Lots of comic relief and adolescent yearnings.

I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.

I first read 'Tom Sawyer' when I was in 8th grade, 13 years old. I realised since that Mark Twain just bottled what it felt like to be a child.

I love telling teen stories where the characters are experiencing things for the first time - the stakes feel really high.

I think when you are 17 you are very innocent.

Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing.

What I did suffer when I was young was because I was sort of a hick coming into New York City. I was made fun of by a lot of the Factory people. Even Andy Warhol thought I was a hick.

First love is such a big thing growing up.

We all are so serious when we are younger.

I've already done things I never believed I would. Even stepping out of Northampton and being in London - London always seemed like the big city I might go to for Carnival, go for a party and a chill and then head home.

I was just 15 years old when I came from Chandigarh, which was a very small town then. I became part of the entertainment field after winning the Young Miss India contest.

I left home at 18, I thought I knew everything. It was fun for a while and then it wasn't fun any more.