Coming of age Quotes

“I just buried my mother. I've been better.”

— Rich Allan

“If ever I was running, it was towards you.”

— Jennifer Elisabeth

“You haunt my days and dreams.”

— Jennifer Elisabeth

“Be a team player, not a bandwagon jumper.”

— Aaron Lauritsen

“If I'm going to fail, I want to fail trying.”

— Tiffany Hawk

“It was almost painful to be different.”

— Shannon A. Thompson

“An involved parent is already a superhero.”

— Linda Armstrong

Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.

— Oscar Wilde

“Don't think about that. Just believe I'll be okay.”

— Shane Morgan

“It is hard to know how to save the world if one has never lived in it.”

— Alex Flinn

“I lost my innocence very young and it had nothing to do with sex.”

— Jennifer Elisabeth

“Be willing to turn your attention to that which serves you.”

— Holly Lynn Payne

“I tried to push my body through his and completely disappear.”

— Jennifer Elisabeth

India is now changing and regaining its lustre, and it is coming of age.

— Nita Ambani

“In the end, every person's life is a tough act to follow.”

— James Michael Rice

“Outgrowing things we love is never a pleasant process.”

— Anonymous

“She was merely an actress who had been forced to perform her part on stage without fully knowing her lines. She was…

— Erica Sehyun Song

“Those who achieve the extraordinary are usually the most ordinary because they have nothing to prove to anybody. Be Humble.”

— Aaron Lauritsen

“I had to live my life, and to do that I needed to go to Buenos Aires. I had to live my…

— Romina Paula

My character in 'Mr. Holland's Opus' was kind of coming of age, learning about a world that was opening up to her.

— Jean Louisa Kelly

we all grow up thinking our parents found us under cabbage leaves and that sex didn't exist before our personal coming-of-age.

— Mary Jo Putney

Prom has all the elements of a popular story. It reeks of all-Americanness, tension, drama. It has romance. Pretty dresses. Dancing. Limos.…

— Adora Svitak

“That last time you kissed me my heart slid past your teeth down into the center of your chest… trapping us both…

— Jennifer Elisabeth

“Life's trials will test you, and shape you, but don’t let them change who you are.” ~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive”

— Aaron Lauritsen

Although I sometimes enjoy writing from an adult's perspective, I feel dedicated to the coming of age story - that part of…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

“Thinking he knows can be a trap. An ex-professor once told him he had a diamond-hard intellect and he’d been flattered at…

— Margaret Atwood

“She rode down the sidewalk, turned toward the shadow side of the street and melted into darkness. I didn't know it then,…

— Craig Davidson

“In no mood for one of her silly games, I snatched it off her and scanned the page. It turned out to…

— Aurelia B. Rowl

I had just been promoted to the first rugby team. It was a perfect, wonderful coming of age. My brother was already…

— Anthony Browne

“I brooded over it. If it had been any other dream, I would have ignored it. But it was one of those…

— Erica Sehyun Song

Anthony Ryan is a new fantasy author destined to make his mark on the genre. His debut novel, Blood Song, certainly has…

— Michael J. Sullivan

“The contemporary needs of North American Jews are directly tied to the trajectory of the immigrant experience in North America. The generation…

— Kerry M. Olitzky

“With the sounds of Rock and Roll and Sherry’s intoxicating laugh moving you though every memory—you’re sure to be captivated by this…

— Penn Press

“There comes a time in everyone’s life—and I do mean in everyone’s life—when you ask yourself what it is that you’ve been…

— Ali Sheikh

“Sometimes being vulnerable as a child is not knowing what lies ahead. We think our choices will make a huge difference in…

— Cyndi Goodgame

“She had a woman’s swagger at twelve-and-a-half. Hair: strawberry-blonde, and I vaguely recall a daisy in the crook of her ear. She…

— Jake Vander Ark

Many decry rising inequality because it makes those who've fallen behind feel impoverished. But it's done much more than cause hurt feelings.…

— Robert H. Frank

“The Mozart sonata Dad picked out begins to play. When we hear the first note, we open the sacks and the ladybugs…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

“94 was a good year to be twelve. Star Wars still had two more years as Box Office King, cartoons were still…

— Jake Vander Ark

“Elephant Memories. William Morrow, 1988. Moss, Cynthia J., Harvey Croze, and Phyllis C. Lee, eds. The Amboseli Elephants. University of Chicago Press,…

— Jodi Picoult