Puberty Quotes

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

Time, Job, Long

The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.
George William Curtis

Women, Men, Mean

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

Until, Fat, Born

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

School, Hard, Guitar

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

Growing up the son of a director has made me very aware of the various turns that a directing career can take. Sometimes your films turn out exactly as you want. Sometimes they don't. I spent a lot of my childhood on sets. I think as a joke, my father gave me a line of dialogue in each of his films during the worst moments of my puberty.
Jason Reitman

Father, Career, Son

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

Kids, Face, Changes

I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined.
Bob Geldof

Music, Politics, Time

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.
Germaine Greer

Result, Creating, Feminine

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

Age, Women, Yourself

I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.
Park Chan-wook

Family, Until, Week

I was heavily into sport from 10 to 15, I was in all the teams, and it was everything to me. But I was very young for my school year and when puberty kicked in for my classmates I got left behind.
Ben Barnes

School, Young, Year

Puberty is an extremely traumatic process even if you don't realize it. It kind of lives with you for like 10 years.
Andrea Riseborough

Lives, Realize, Process

When I was going through puberty, I had all these feelings of being unstable through those years, and being uncontrollably drawn to things of beauty and things that are bad.
Park Chan-wook

Beauty, Bad, Feelings

I am a father. My son's name is Max and my daughter's name is Billie Grace. Twelve years ago Max was born with Down Syndrome. His journey has been complicated by infantile seizures, sleep apnea, dietary challenges and now, puberty!
John C. McGinley

Sleep, Father, Down

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

Poetry, Children, Write

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.
Christoph Waltz

Time, Why, Become

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.
Richard Griffiths

Life, Career, Happen

I've weighed 100 lbs. soaking wet since puberty.
Shenae Grimes

Since, Wet, Soaking

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

School, Parents, Happen

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

Old, Either, Decided

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

Good, Great, Sports

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.
Linda Hunt

Teen, Miserable, Growing

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.
Francine Pascal

Parents, Same, Matter

I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis.
George Montgomery

Age, Crisis, Alcohol

Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.
Granville Stanley Hall

Girl, Down, Sea

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