Quotes and Sayings About Teens
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Ever since I was in my teens I had plans at one point in my life to write a novel.
-- Jo Nesbo -
You're jeans are full of crap. You're full of beans, you're in you teens. You've lost your mama's road map.
-- John Lennon -
Once we are willing to accept that anything worth doing might even be worth doing badly, our options widen.
-- Julia Cameron -
It wasn't being an alcoholic - it was going wild. It happened when I got famous. It was like having my teens in my early thirties: blotting out your life, not having to think about anything.
-- Julie Walters -
What defines someone's music taste is their teens and early 20s. It's that combination of your sexual awakening and the music of the time, it fixes you forever.
-- Ken Livingstone -
After I reached my teens I decided I didn't want to hang out with anyone. I couldn't handle the stupidity.
-- Kurt Cobain -
Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.
-- Laura Lippman -
Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.
-- Loretta Young -
I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted.
-- Luke Ford -
I started to play Jazz music in my early teens. A boyfriend brought records over, so I listened to everything
-- Marian McPartland -
Traditionally parents have wondered what their teens were doing, but now teens are much more likely to be doing things that can get them killed.
-- Mary Pipher -
Older teens tend to write to me and say, 'Thank you for not writing down to teenagers.'
-- Matthew Tobin Anderson -
Teens look at cause-related efforts with some scrutiny. They know they are often a target market, but it has to make sense to them.
-- Nancy Lublin -
When I was in my early teens, I joined a cult. And we weren't allowed to listen to secular music or anything that wasn't made by us. So I spent a lot of time not listening to music, and by the time I could, I just didn't get into it.
-- Natalia Kills -
I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.
-- Nigella Lawson -
Throughout my teens, I just wanted to go somewhere I could wear a Donald Duck pin and no one would care.
-- Paul Feig -
I was fascinated by The Lord of the Rings from about the age of eight, and that lasted well into my teens.
-- Philip Reeve -
I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.
-- Robert Cormier -
A young woman in her teens has about 300,000 eggs in her ovaries. By the time she is menopausal, none are left.
-- Robert Winston -
I know that when I grew up I was pretty sheltered, and didn't come to understand much about the world until I was in my really late teens and early twenties, and that process continues.
-- Ryan Phillippe -
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.
-- Spencer Bachus -
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.
-- Stephanie Beacham -
When I was young, Stephen Hawking wasn't the world's most famous physicist. The fame didn't arrive until the publication of "A Brief History of Time," by which time I was in my late teens. When I was a child, he was well known among physicists, but they are a fairly select, serious bunch, not much given to celebrity idolizing.
-- Stephen Hawking -
We teach teens what we think they ought to know, and we never tell them what they want to know.
-- Sue Johanson -
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.
-- Tea Leoni -
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.
-- Trevor Nunn -
When I hit my 20s, I took a chill pill and relaxed because throughout my teens I was churning out an album a year. It was a treadmill of work then recording, promoting and touring.
-- Vanessa Mae -
When a person opens a book, he can never be in prison.
-- Victor Hugo