Top 50 Puberty Quotes

To me, ‘Garden of Delete‘ is a way of describing the idea that good things can bloom out of a negative situation. All the traumatic experiences I had during puberty, ugly memories and ugly thoughts in general can yield something good, like a record or whatever.

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

Puberty for me was graduating from Thousand Island salad dressing to Caesar salads. It was like going from hot dogs and hamburgers to beef stroganoff, or from ice cream in a cone to creme brulee.

Most of what I’ve written songs about are things that come out of the confusing emotional, spiritual and psychological period of time when you‘re going through puberty.

I can tell you that the book ‘The Ugly Truth’ is about puberty and all the awfulness that comes with that time in a person‘s life. It was definitely some different subject matter to be writing about, especially knowing some of my audience are second and third graders.

I’ve been overweight since puberty, so acting was never a dream.

Every kid goes through puberty, wondering what to do about girls and struggling with homework, and every adult has been through that.

I was always, like, ambiguous. Is that how you say it? When I was turning 16 I talked to my mom about transitioning and stuff, but that was before I went through puberty.

Since puberty I’ve always had this strange awareness that all the keener experiences I would have in my life would happen later than it would to my contemporaries. When it came to the career thing, I never worried about it. It’s better if you’re still peaking when you’re 60, which I feel I am.

You see, my version of why anyone would want to become an actor is that it’s some psychological fixation, something that happened in puberty that you didn’t outgrow in time, which is normal. Nevertheless, if you make it a profession, it can be really neurotic.

I had curly hair, braces, pimples – you talk about going through puberty and the worst things that go with it, I had it, for sure. And then I had a bottom retainer, so my lisp was really bad. I still have a minor one when I get really excited.

Girls of 7, 8 or 9 years old are not emotionally or psychologically equipped to handle puberty.

Most of us have had that experience – at around puberty – of realising that, despite whatever efforts we put into our chosen sports, we will become at best competent.

Harassment is one of puberty’s darkest, most unreported rites of passage.

I had been on puberty suppressants and hormone suppressants, so I did not go through male puberty.

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.

I never actually got noticed on the street for ‘Harry Potter.’ I did it at such a young age, when I was going through puberty and changing up my hair and how I looked.

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

It’s interesting because, even with ‘Beetlejuice,’ I was an awkward kid. I started at puberty and went through it on film. Lydia was one of my favorite roles because I related to her a lot.

From the beginning of puberty, I did really badly in school. I was super dyslexic; I was in special ed. I had a hard time reading and writing, so I thought that my self worth was in my looks, how I presented myself, and how other people perceived me.

I was so awkward and gangly, and went through puberty way too young – I got really self-conscious about it.

In the comic-book lore, of course, you mutate post a traumatic event. You must have the mutant gene, but if something traumatic happens to you, usually at puberty, then that mutation manifests itself.

I don’t feel like I really hit puberty until I was almost 17. I’d go to dinner with my family, and I’m 15 or 16 years old, and the waiter was still giving me the children’s menu.

No matter when you were born or where, puberty is the same. It’s the same for your parents as it is for you – what’s happening in your body dictates everything.

You are taught about puberty and the menopause and how tough they can be, but a quarter-life crisis, you’re not prepared for.

Whenever I finish filming, it always feels like I’m going through puberty. I’ve realized that I’ve come to enjoy this, though it had brought me much pain at first.

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.

Before puberty, it seems like I was more or less smiling a lot. I was really outgoing and wanted to have a happy life.

When I was little, I was very loud and loved performing in front of people. I was fearless. When I hit puberty, I became very shy and self-conscious. I still get nervous sometimes before shooting and definitely before big auditions.

Peter Parker is probably the most relatable superhero – maybe ever – because he goes through something that basically everyone has to go through. Whether it’s puberty or talking to girls or doing homework, he does it in such a human way. That’s why he’s such a beloved character: because so many people can relate to him.

In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently.

Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don’t get over that until much later in life. I feel like I’m just starting to get over puberty – basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.

I consider my relationship with acting in Hollywood as sort of a mutual breakup. Through puberty, Hollywood didn’t really want me anymore, and I was like, ‘Yeah, I don’t really want you, either.’

The limbic system explodes during puberty, but the prefrontal cortex keeps maturing for another 10 years.

As I got into high school and after puberty, I was a little more inward. I was a real extrovert when I was little, but I don’t know, I just got quieter… With my friends, I was still an extrovert.

I do remember vividly sometime after puberty when I’d answer the phone at home and the callers began to say, ‘Hi, Bill!’ That’s when I knew Dad and I had the same voice.

The thing about women playing boys is that we’re not going to age, and we’re not going to go through puberty in the middle of a long-running series.

It’s not good to lose your dad at any time but at 13 years of age you are just going through puberty and growing up and that was a very crucial time and was a hard time to lose my dad and it had a big effect on me.

I was kind of an unhappy kid. I always felt like a cynical New Yorker trapped in a little kid‘s body. I started to get some pretty bad anxiety disorders around puberty, which totally did not work with growing up a mile away from the beach. I started cutting my own hair.

Peter Parker is probably the most relatable superhero, maybe ever, because he goes through something that basically everyone has to go through. Whether it’s puberty or talking to girls or doing homework, he does it in such a human way.

What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.

Since puberty, I’ve always known there was a possibility of me being with a man. It wasn’t anything I felt the need to explore until the time came to explore it.

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.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that from puberty onwards, the female body is disgusting and unruly and must be tamed, trimmed and tinted to within an inch of its life before it can be allowed to roam freely in the public eye.

I was wildly interested in puberty as a child.

You know how people say that young people feel immortal? I don’t know what they’re talking about. I was planning for how I would deal with my death in good conscience well before I even hit puberty.

When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing and meanness from my teenage cohorts.

I genuinely hit puberty before everyone.

When I was 14 years old, I decided I could cook. It was either that or puberty.

Puberty was the most horrifying time of my life.