I would dye my hair every week. I wanted to be a really goth teenager. — Sarah Michelle Gellar Copy Share Image
You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone. — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
“Grown-ups are always more fascinated by what you might become then what you are.” — Jim Lynch Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a difficult time at the best of times, and especially in a smaller town - there's all these different energies… — William Kircher Copy Share Image
“I want to keep all of me, and I don't think you get to do that. I think becoming an adult means… — Katie Kennedy Copy Share Image
I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family. — Randy Quaid Copy Share Image
I'm sort of stuck in adolescence in many ways, like most artists, and march to my own beat. — Mary Gauthier Copy Share Image
“Growing up means situations and people change, problems are bigger, feelings are deeper and the hurt devastating.” — Bailey Copy Share Image
Adolescence in my growing up period was truly "Happy Days," the title of a TV show connotating the quality of this life… — Virgil Miller Newton Copy Share Image
Childhood was definitely my most formative time in terms of my creative self. My adolescence was very much the dark years. I… — Julio Torres Copy Share Image
I hit adolescence only to discover my autobiography had already been written; plagiarized, in fact, by a man named J.D. Salinger who,… — Stephen Metcalf Copy Share Image
“the “work” of adolescence—the testing of boundaries, the passion to explore what is unknown and exciting—can set the stage for the development… — Daniel J. Siegel Copy Share Image
“No-one had ever looked at me before Suzanne, not really, so she had become my definition. Her gaze softening my centre so… — Emma Cline Copy Share Image
adolescence is a sort of underworld we have to live through. Everything is in us, even vice and crime. At the same… — Grace Zaring Stone Copy Share Image
Childhood, young adulthood is fluid. And it's very easy to get labeled very young and have to carry something through your childhood… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
You start getting hit with some very interesting situations in life - you as a parent - when they approach that teenage… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
Growing up is hard when you start losing faith in the only thing you believed. Growing up is hard because you have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The notion that the 'leader' has the right to ask huge sacrifices of your generation for a notional future paradise - if… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
My childhood, adolescence and high school days are unusually important. If there has ever been a time that I developed a uniqueness… — Lee Atwater Copy Share Image
Most people don't get out of childhood, or adolescence, without being wounded for telling the truth. Someone says 'you can't say that'… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“His adolescent nerdliness vaporizing any iota of a chance he had for young love. Everybody else going through the terror and joy… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
Growing up means letting go of the dearest megalomaniacal dreams of our childhood. Growing up means knowing they can't be fulfilled. Growing… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
“For the first time, she recognized the symptoms of infatuation which she had felt incipiently as a child, as a girl in… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
“For as long as I could remember, I had been transparent to myself, unselfconscious, learning, doing, most of every day. Now I… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image