Puberty Quotes - Page 4

• At the heart of male bonding is this experience of boys in early puberty: they know they must break free from their mothers and the civilized world of women, but they are not ready yet for the world of men, so they are only at home with other boys, equally outcast, equally frightened, and equally involved in posturing what they believe to be manhood.

  Frank Pittman

  Mother, Believe, Home

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• Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the 'creative bug' is just a wee voice telling you, 'I'd like my crayons back, please.

  Hugh Magnus MacLeod of MacLeod

  Art, Book, Creativity

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• I went through puberty really early, when I was 11. It makes you feel weird - you know, like your uncle is now hugging you a little bit longer than he used to. I think we all go through wanting to go back - you're not sure you're ready for that body.

  Jessica Alba

  Uncles, Thinking, Hug

  "Hollywood Honey". Cosmopolitan interview, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 26, 2005.

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• I think... girls have a hard time being interesting. It’s actually easier to be famous, or notorious, than it is to be interesting. In our world, girls climb very well until they hit puberty-sexual maturity-and then they begin to fall out of the tree. They start role-playing instead of thinking, flirting instead of learning. They start admiring how smart the boys are-or how athletic or how handsome-instead of concentrating on their own intelligence.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Girl, Smart, Fall

  Sheri S. Tepper (1997). “The family tree”, HarperCollins

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• There are three intellectual pursuits, and, so far as I am aware, only three, in which human beings have performed major feats before the age of puberty. They are music, mathematics, and chess.

  George Steiner

  Intellectual, Age, Three

  George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.171, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• You always worry that everybody is secretly talking about you behind your back, everybody is secretly making fun of your voice, your figure, the way that you are during puberty, but it turned out, in real life, everybody was. On movie sets, they were all talking about these things, because they had to.

  Mara Wilson

  Fun, Real, Talking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I just think that knowing about your body at any age, whether it's educating yourself on fertility, getting mammograms, going through puberty - whatever it may be, is really important. I just really encourage women empowerment and being comfortable talking about these issues.

  Khloe Kardashian

  Thinking, Talking, Knowing

  "Khloe Kardashian Talks Body Confidence and Keeping Things Sexy with Lamar". Interview With Carly Cardellino, www.cosmopolitan.com. January 31, 2013.

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• Kids whose puberty begins too soon face not just psychological risks, but physical ones too, with an increased likelihood of cancer, as well as skeletal changes that could prevent them from attaining their full adult height.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Cancer, Kids, Risk

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• I've weighed 100 lbs. soaking wet since puberty.

  Shenae Grimes

  Wet, Soaking

  "90210's Shenae Grimes Don't Call Me Skinny!". Interview with Monica Rizzo, people.com. December 8, 2008.

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• I got more than I bargained for with him, too. Much more. I know he’s completely different now, but he was really nice and funny when he was human. But apparently his manners didn’t survive the transition.” Marc smiled. “Yeah, well , yours didn’t survive puberty, so you can’t really talk.

  Rachel Vincent

  Nice, Transition, Different

  Rachel Vincent (2010). “Rogue”, p.264, MIRA

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• I was the naughty kid that the teachers liked. I bullied a kid in the 1st year when I was in the 2nd, who then hit puberty like a plane crash and grew into a gorilla who bullied me when he was in the 4th year and I was in the 5th. That's Karma.

  Simon Pegg

  Karma, Teacher, Kids

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• I agree, Dad. I was just explaining to the woman why we don’t look anything alike and why you would have been younger than me when I was born. It doesn’t mean I don’t love you ‘cause you know I do. Make one snotty comment in anger when you’re twelve years old going through puberty and getting grounded, and you pay for it for the rest of your life. Parents ain’t got no sense of humor. (Omari)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dad, Love You, Mean

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born Of Ice: Number 3 in series”, p.99, Hachette UK

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• The meaningful role of the father of the bride was played out long before the church music began. It stretched across those years of infancy and puberty, adolescence and young adulthood. That's when she needs you at her side.

  Tom Brokaw

  Meaningful, Daughter, Father

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• As stated before, hypothyroidism may cause premature or delayed puberty. The majority of normal and hypothyroid females begin their cycle at ages 12 or 13. However, a growing number of those with hypothyroidism start their cycle years earlier or begin their periods at age 15 or later. Premature or delayed puberty in males is also becoming more common.

  Mark Starr

  Years, Pms, Numbers

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• 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.

  John Mulaney

  Real, School, Inward

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. September 27, 2011.

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• Name the book that made the biggest impression on you. I bet you read it before you hit puberty. In the time I've got left, I intend to write artistic books - for kids - because they're still open to new ideas.

  Gary Paulsen

  Book, Kids, Writing

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• I am realizing how old I am 'cause I am meeting so many people that were born in the 80s, which is crazy to me that I was going through puberty and [they weren't] even alive.

  Rob Corddry

  Crazy, People, Alive

  "10 questions for the ‘Hot Tub Time Machine’ crew". Interview with Gregory Ellwood, uproxx.com. March 24, 2010.

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• I don't know what age the people who review my concerts reached puberty, I don't know if people in America reach puberty a lot later than they do in England or something like that, but the majority of those people are in their late teens and early twenties.

  George Michael

  America, People, Age

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A small olive-skinned creature who had hit puberty but never hit it very hard, Ben had been my best friend since fifth grade, when we both finally owned up to the fact that neither of us was likely to attract anyone else as a best friend.

  John Green

  My Best Friend, Olives, Fifth Grade

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.14, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Holly winked. 'Do I look like a fly boy to you, Fowl?' Artemis had to admit that she didn't. Captain Short was extremely pretty in a dangerous sort of way. Black-widow pretty. Artemis was expecting puberty to hit in approximately eight months, and he suspected that at that point he would look at Holly in a different light. It was probably just as well that she was eighty years old.

  Eoin Colfer

  Boys, Eight, Light

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• I started puberty very late. I was nearly sixteen. And for complicated reasons this late arrival of my puberty caused me to stop playing competitive tennis. But before my puberty problem, I had trouble with my lower back and with my left testicle.

  Jonathan Ames

  Tennis, Sixteen, Complicated

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• Memory's so treacherous. One moment you're lost in a carnival of delights with poignant childhood aromas, the flashing neon on puberty, all that sentimental candyfloss. The next, it leads you somewhere you don't want to go.. Somewhere dark and cold, filled with the damp ambiguous shapes of things you'd hoped were forgotten.

  Alan Moore

  Memories, Dark, Childhood

  "Batman: The Killing Joke". Graphic novel by Alan Moore, 1988.

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• I do think a lot of sexual violence stems from experiences in childhood or at puberty. Some people become sadistic after suffering early abuse at the hands of parents, relatives or friends. But for others, the seed is planted in the formative years by the conflation of images of violence with those of sexual arousal. Magazines, TV shows and, especially, slasher movies are masters at doing this.

  Park Dietz

  Thinking, Years, Tv Shows

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• It's hard enough to go through puberty. Everyone's embarassed about their youth, but if just happens that the '80s were particularly disgusting. Flock of Seagulls is not cool.

  Alyssa Milano

  Youth, Enough, Flocks

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• Language development, for instance, has a critical period that begins in infancy and ends between eight years and puberty. After this critical period closes, a person’s ability to learn a second language without an accent is limited. In fact, second languages learned after the critical period are not processed in the same part of the brain as is the native tongue.

  Norman Doidge

  Eight, Years, Brain

  Norman Doidge (2007). “The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science”, p.52, Penguin

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