George Carlin Quotes

I think high school's very difficult. You're figuring out your own power and your effect on other people. You look back and see how you spent so much energy on figuring out things with your parents or your peers.

Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.

Everything I do today is because of what I did when I was 14.

The things a young woman goes through between the ages of 18 and 20 are far different than what a young woman can go through between 20 and 22.

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

I think you do a lot of your growing as a human being between the ages of 13 and 18.

When I was a teenager, I felt my life was constrained by rules, school, my parents. I wanted to feel like I was empowered and different; that's why superheroes, comics, manga, and video games filled my needs. When I got older, I realized power is not free; it comes with responsibility.

So much changes in a year when you're a teenager.

And so, I think when I got to college, you discover who you are and find yourself more than you did before.

If you have created an image of yourself at 13 and it is still with you at 17, it needs to be dropped.

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.

I know that when I grew up I was pretty sheltered, and didn't come to understand much about the world until I was in my really late teens and early twenties, and that process continues.

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

Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves to a greater and greater extent.

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

In certain ways, I'm not very different than I was when I was a teenager.

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.

I was really young when I was working on 'Freaks and Geeks.' In a lot of ways, that was the experience that informed a lot of what I've become, and I feel like every experience I have is in some way or another an extension of something that started there.

At 21, there's lots more room there, plenty of things to improve on as you get older.

Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.

I'm such a late bloomer.

The most formative time of our lives are the years between birth and age 21, when we explore who we are and learn from those who surround us.

I started playing in bars when I was about 15 years old, and there are things that I saw early on that really shaped who I am.

I didn't get along with Lindsay Lohan on 'Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen', but you have to consider that we were 16-year-old girls. I haven't seen Lindsay since then, but I imagine she's grown and become a different person. I know I have.

I think everyone has their awkward phases. Growing up isn't easy for everyone. I definitely had my awkward moments.