Puberty Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old puberty quotes, puberty sayings, and puberty proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Puberty, it has been said, is everyone's first experience of a sentient madness. Stacy Schiff
Going through puberty as a young girl is so confusing. This monster invades your body changes things and makes things grow and no one tells you what's going on. Katharine Isabelle
Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born. G. Stanley Hall
Adolescence is the age of cosmic yearnings and private passions, of social concern and personal agony. It is the age of inconsistency and ambivalence. Haim Ginott
Adolescence is like cactus. Anais Nin
Adolescence as the time when an individual recapitulates the savage stage of the race's past. G. Stanley Hall
Adolescence in our culture for a young woman, for a girl, is a hard road. Rodney Crowell
Growing moustache and beard is the sign puberty, not maturity. Guru Sri Nayak
Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea. G. Stanley Hall
Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work. Antonio Gramsci
Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future. Louise J. Kaplan
Adolescence has been recognised as a stage of human development since medieval times long, long before the industrial revolution and, as it is now, has long been seen as a phase which centers on the fusion of sexual and social maturity. Indeed, adolescence as a concept has as long a history as that of puberty, which is sometimes considered more concrete, and hence much easier to name and to recognize. Terri E Apter
Puberty brought them together. Maturity drove them apart. Himakshi Tarde
Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility. Bill Vaughan
Adolescence is a plague on the senses. Henry Rollins
Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood. Louise J. Kaplan
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
Adolescence is just one big walking pimple. Carol Burnett
Adolescence is perhaps nature's way of preparing parents to welcome the empty nest. Karen Savage
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. Will Self
Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts. Mary Pipher
Adolescence is interesting. I mean, all of life is interesting and all of life is transitionary. But I think there is an exponential growth physically, intellectually, emotionally and there is so much potential. Bill Henson
Once you get over that peak of puberty, you hit a nice stride. Claire Danes
Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future. Coco Chanel
Adolescence is that time in your life when you discover your ability to be depressed. David Gerrold
The best things in life make you sweaty. Edgar Allan Poe
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
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
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
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 MacLeod57