Teens Quotes

I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.

Youth! youth! how buoyant are thy hopes! they turn, like marigolds, toward the sunny side.

Look, I want to love this world as though it's the last chance I'm ever going to get to be alive and know it.

Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.

Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.

After I reached my teens I decided I didn't want to hang out with anyone. I couldn't handle the stupidity.

Hong Kong is not just a global financial center. It's also a place with a lot of teens and youth who love freedom, democracy, and human rights.

Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.

When a person opens a book, he can never be in prison.

Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?

Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity.

Teens today rule the world. The whole culture - movies, music - is pointed at young people. They have so 'much' power.

Throughout my teens, I just wanted to go somewhere I could wear a Donald Duck pin and no one would care.

I took some classes in sign language when I was in my early teens because I was told that I would be completely deaf very early. But I never really wanted to learn.

Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.

Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.

Most teens aren’t addicted to social media; if anything, they’re addicted to each other.

61% of graduating teens have had sex, 37% will eventually have sex, and 2% become statisticians.

What a shame that allowances have to stop with the teens: both those that are paid to us and those that are made for us.

If you want to be different, do something different.

March to the beat of your own drummer.

If you do not speak to your teens about the meaning of human sexuality and love, the world will fill the void of your silence with a very contrary message.

Teens just understand the world in ways I don't think any of us adults do.

Once we are willing to accept that anything worth doing might even be worth doing badly, our options widen.

The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.

Change is one thing. Acceptance is another.

American teens have the worst of all worlds ... Our children are bombarded and confronted with sexual messages, sexual exploitation, and all manner of sexual criticism. But our society is by and large sexually illiterate.

A mouth of no distinction but well practiced, before I entered my teens, in irony. For what is irony but the repository of hurt? And what is hurt but the repository of hope?

But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail

In my teens, I was never part of the cool crowd.

I suffered from 'No one will ever fancy me!' syndrome, well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. Absolutely not.

By the time I was in my early teens, we were able to move into a much more middle-class area. I had a comfortable adolescence.

I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.

I went from really hating my body, to disliking it, to accepting it but not exactly liking it, then accepting it and liking it, and now I love it.

The big art is our life.

I came to England in 1962 as a very young bride, in my teens, hoping just to stay two years and go back.

In my late teens, early 20s, when I started stand-up and I was living downtown for the first time, I was deep into my blues and Bukowski phase. And, you know, that's when that's appropriate. And I grew out of it.

Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course.

In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar.

I am proud and embarrassed by how incredibly self-confident I was in my late teens and early 20s. I know that there were other things going on, too, but I had an overwhelming belief in myself. Like I said, I'm embarrassed by it and proud of it.

When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.

I was a Ukrainian folk dancer in my teens, and I toured the country in 1991, shortly before the break-up of the Soviet Union.

Maybe something that's acceptable in your teens or 20s is unacceptable in your 30s or 40s

In fact, a University of Connecticut study showed that as many as three in four pre-teens and teens who are exposed to Internet gambling become addicted.

In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.

In your teens, you think you know everything, and you know nothing. By your thirties, you're sure you know nothing, but you're happy with that.

I've been an amateur photographer since my teens.

Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.