Hikaru Nakamura Quotes

I think, you know, when you're a teenager, sometimes your emotions are a little bit more drastic than maybe when you're in your 20s. You sort of level out a little bit.

To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20.

I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.

Like many other people of my generation, I don't think I ever really bothered to grow up. I wasn't ever really a proper teenager until I was about 19, and maybe I got a bit stuck there, because it seemed to go on and on.

I always think that period between the ages of 18 and 24 is such a bizarre stage, and the two people at either end are always very different.

'Chhichhore' is not just a story, it is a journey that everyone goes through. The film showcases some of the most beautiful years of one's life, where friends become family and stay with you till you age.

It's a bit different when you're 16 as to when you're 20. You're a little bit more developed and mature in your body.

Adolescence was only recognised as a life stage in the early 20th century, when psychologists got down to work. Today's generational battle obscures the fact that adulthood is happening later. A new transitional stage has emerged after adolescence: the twenties.

It's about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone.. A girl who may not know what she wants right now, and she may not know who she is right now, but who deserves the chance to find out.

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

To be young, really young, takes a very long time.

Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.

Just being young and growing up in this business is hard. Just growing up in general is hard.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

I am a child who is getting on.

When you're young, you try to meet that expectation that people have of you. It can be very stressful. But with time it's become less of problem.

I've got the rest of my life to be a grown-up. And for now, it's OK to be young.

We live a protracted adolescence. At some point you must leave the party.

Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been the boy.

I think the major problem in growing up is to become sophisticated without becoming cynical.

I think I went through puberty. I'm, like, 20 now and I was, like, 17 then, ... You know, I've experienced different things and am having a lot more fun with it.

A boy is the only known substance from which a man can be made.

You get into your teens, now they can't hold you back. You jump to the next number, or even a few ahead.

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.

There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults.