Puberty Quotes - Page 2

• Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

  Dennis Potter

  Children, Writing, Poet

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• Early on, girls begin to menstruate, which is dramatic but not obvious to their playmates. They grow taller and rounder, but underneath their makeup they are still recognizably themselves. For boys it is far more disorienting. Puberty comes later, sometimes much later, and its delay is humiliating. While the tall round girls are getting themselves up like grown women, the prepubertal boys, with their featureless, hairless bodies, are just dirty little kids who could pass for the children of the hypermature girls.

  Frank Pittman

  Girl, Children, Dirty

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• I think people solidify the direction they want to go and the style they want to have once their puberty passes. I think your twenties is when you learn new things and you have the opportunity to give your all to something, whether it's work or love.

  Yunho

  Opportunity, Thinking, People

  Source: omonatheydidnt.livejournal.com

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• When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.

  Max Lerner

  Teenage, Serious, Adolescence

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• Control puberty?" snorted the bodyguard."If you manage that, you'll be the first.

  Eoin Colfer

  Firsts, Bodyguard, Manage

  Eoin Colfer (2008). “Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony”, Miramax

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• Adolescence: The stage between puberty and adultery.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Cynical, Adultery, Cynicism

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• I genuinely hit puberty before everyone.

  Emily Ratajkowski

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I remember, when I was a little kid, I was good at sports, and I could jump off the high board. And then puberty hit, and suddenly I was looking to boys for direction. I remember that as a great loss.

  Francine Prose

  Sports, Kids, Loss

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• Other than dying, I think puberty is probably about as rough as it gets.

  Rick Springfield

  Thinking, Dying, Rough

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• What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness.

  Alison Gopnik

  Children, Teenage, Answers

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• Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar.

  Rick Springfield

  School, Guitar, Use

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• 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.

  Fefe Dobson

  Fun, Thinking, Different

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• Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed.

  David Brin

  School, Prison, Crime

  David Brin (2009). “Earth”, p.367, Spectra

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• Puberty was definitely difficult for me. I remember my friends and I looking forward to puberty because it seemed exciting at first. You read Judy Blume and you think, "This is kind of cool." But when it actually started happening to me, I was terrified.

  Mara Wilson

  Thinking, Firsts, Looking Forward

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When I reach puberty I'm definitely going to grow a beard.

  Max Beesley

  Beard, Grows

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• If you give a cracker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is carve his initials in it. Fortunately, most crackers get over that once they're through puberty.

  Jamie Zawinski

  Giving, Firsts, Toys

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• The age of puberty is a crisis in the age of man worth studying. It is the passage from the unconscious to the conscious; from thesleep of passions to their rage.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Passion, Men, Age

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• I firmly believe that every six years, a person goes through a serious change. Think about it: At 6, you start school. At about 12, you start hitting puberty. And then it goes on. You start hitting these different mental levels, and people change. I think that's part of the reason the divorce rate is so high.

  Randy Houser

  Change, Believe, School

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• Something went klunk. Like a nickel dropping in a soda machine. One of those small insights that explains everything. This was puberty for these boys. Adolescence. The first date, the first kiss, the first chance to hold hands with someone special. Delayed, postponed, a decade's worth of longing--while everybody around you celebrates life, you pretend, suppress, inhibit, deprive yourself of you own joy--but finally ultimately, eventually, you find a place where you can have a taste of everything denied.

  David Gerrold

  Kissing, Boys, Hands

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• Schools must stop being holding pens to keep energetic young people off the job market and off the streets. We stretch puberty out a long, long time.

  Toni Morrison

  Jobs, School, Long

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.258, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I thought it was such a unique concept to play parents who happen to be super heroes and have a son who is going through puberty and starting high school.

  Kelly Preston

  Hero, School, Son

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• I was born fat and have always been, which was just fine and even healthy and cute until I turned ten or so. Puberty hit like a hurricane and brought a new set of rules. All of a sudden it was my fault I was chubby.

  Beth Ditto

  Cute, Healthy, Faults

  "What would Beth Ditto do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. November 23, 2007.

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• Your being born makes your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. Then puberty makes you Satan, just because you want something better.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Want Something, Parent, Invisible Monsters

  Chuck Palahniuk (2012). “Invisible Monsters Remix”, p.202, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Puberty is the sickest joke God plays on us. So you're just noticing members of the sex: "Girls girls, ooo". Naturally you want to look your best, and God says "No! You will look the worst you've ever looked in your life!"

  Eddie Izzard

  Girl, Sarcastic, Sex

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• I went through puberty in a theme park. I'm grateful. That place was a landscape to me. I had adventures every day.

  Ryan Gosling

  Life, Grateful, Adventure

  "Welcome to Goslingland". Interview with Tom Chiarella, www.esquire.com. August 10, 2011.

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