Jerry Robinson Quotes

Most of my formative years were in Chandigarh.

When you're 13, you're still trying to figure out your style.

I still connect with original emotions. 'Night Moves' was written about 1961 or 1962 when I was in high school, and it was about what my friends and I did in that period.

Everybody remembers what it's like to be in high school. We really never leave those years behind.

I spent the better part of my developing years in Massachusetts.

I was in high school, and when you get to be 14, 15, you start to feel a little more like your own person so that you can assert your adulthood a little bit.

No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren't cool, just to establish themselves. That's what adolescence is about. They're gonna go through that no matter what.

I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.

For me, Barca was where I grew up since I was tiny, from eight years old.

You're imprinted in high school more than any other point in your life.

I think saying 'a John Hughes movie' is just shorthand for a lot of people to say 'a coming-of-age story,' because I think, when you're of a certain age, that's what John Hughes means to you.

These are the pieces of my youth, the small secrets and the not-so-great expectations that defined my coming of age.

I will be able to look back on my teen years as spent on a television set just having the biggest bunch of fun.

As people get older, we all know, you get married and you have a child and that becomes your family, but when you're 16 years old, especially, your family is your friends.

There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

It's always a really great feeling when I talk to people who watched 'Jett Jackson' because we were the same age. We were all kids. I was 13 when I started working on that show, and that was part of my childhood.

Sixteen is a hard time. A lot of kids are experimenting with things.

A flapper is just a little girl trying to grow up - in the process of growing up.

I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.

Fifteen is such a weird age to be. Nobody treats you like an adult, but you desperately want to be one. You still have these childlike aspects, but you're just kind of coming into the world.

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.

Early youth is a baffling time.

I think when you're 14 years old, I think you're sort of looking for markers that prove you're an adult and you're independent of your parents.

Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.

The best substitute for experience is being sixteen.