Teenage Years Quotes:

My teenage years were exactly what they were supposed to be. Everybody has their own path. It's laid out for you. It's just up to you to walk it.

- Justin Timberlake

topic: Teenage, Years, Path, Teenage Years

No boy is worth your teenage years!.

- Hayley Williams

topic: Teenage, Boys, Years, Teenage Years

People - not just in their teenage years - hold on to this fantasy of love when they're not ready to have a real relationship.

- Keri Russell

topic: Teenage, Real, Years, Real Relationship, Teenage Years

The teenage years are years of great chaos and confusion in your lives, but also a time of seeking a deeper meaning.

- Deepak Chopra

source: Source: www.seventeen.com

topic: Teenage, Years, Confusion, Chaos And Confusion, Deeper Meaning

I’m 23 right now and I feel like I’m still trying to figure it out. Maybe in another two years, I’ll have it all together. So maybe 25 is the age at which a woman feels her most beautiful just because she’s survived her teenage years and early twenties.

- Chanel Iman

topic: Beautiful, Teenage, Years, Teenage Years

The teenage years are ridiculously crucial and hard and, um, awkward.

- Aimee Teegarden

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Teenage, Years, Awkward, Teenage Years

She had been a teenager once, and she knew that, despite the apparent contradictions, a person's teenage years lasted well into their fifties.

- Derek Landy

topic: Teenage, Years, Contradiction, Teenage Years

A lot of people do that kind of nostalgia stuff believing that they were very happy in their teenage years, but that's probably just an illusion.

- Jo Brand

topic: Teenage, Believe, Years, Teenage Years

I think I grew up a bit quickly. I wish I was younger than I am in my head. I feel like an old lady for various reasons. I have a yearning to live out my childhood and teenage years and have a bit more fun than I actually did.

- Elena Tonra

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Fun, Teenage, Thinking, Teenage Years

Often, I think that my brothers were the reason I didn't do something really stupid in my teenage years; I didn't want to disappoint them. Even though was I was pretty committed to disappointing everybody else.

- Leigh Newman

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Brother, Teenage, Stupid, Really Stupid, Teenage Years

I had an upbringing in which I was allowed to be free and use my mind. My parents only helped me to be myself. It was only in my teenage years that I met people who made me start having doubts about who I was. They said you shouldn't be confident, you shouldn't be strong. It is only when you meet those other people that you lose confidence.

- Juliette Lewis

source: "New Again: Juliette Lewis". Interview with Ingrid Sischy and Hannah Mandel, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 27, 2012.

topic: Strong, Teenage, Years, Teenage Years

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

- e. e. cummings

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Birthday, Inspirational Courage, Inspirational High School Graduation

In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.

- Danielle Steel

topic: Teenage, Real, Passion, Teenage Years

I have written it before and am not ashamed to write it again. Without Wodehouse I am not sure that I would be a tenth of what I am today -- whatever that may be. In my teenage years, his writings awoke me to the possibilities of language. His rhythms, tropes, tricks and mannerisms are deep within me. But more than that, he taught me something about good nature. It is enough to be benign, to be gentle, to be funny, to be kind.

- Stephen Fry

topic: Teenage, Writing, Years, Benign, Tropes

I was 12 when my father passed, so I didn't have a father during my teenage years.

- Ziggy Marley

source: "Ziggy Marley on Legend Bob Marley's Tough Love". Interview with Marlow Stern, www.thedailybeast.com. June 16, 2011.

topic: Teenage, Father, Years, Teenage Years

There was a point in my teenage years, when we were starting to play bigger shows and females were running after tour buses and all that, and my mom - and I remember this like it was yesterday - said: 'Look, I want you to know that I couldn't be prouder of you. You are extraordinary. You move people. But it doesn't make you better than them. You still put your pants on the same way as them, one leg at a time every morning.' I thought about learning to jump right into them, just to mess with her. But what she said stuck with me, and I think it's true.

- Justin Timberlake

source: "Justin Timberlake interview: 'I can count my friends on one hand'". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2011.

topic: Mom, Running, Morning, Teenage Years

I guess some of the most delightful moments of my teenage years were when I was trying not just to educate myself but trying to educate others. And I could see how the lives of children could be transformed in that.

- Amartya Sen

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Children, Teenage, Years, Teenage Years

From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.

- Dennis Prager

topic: Children, Teenage, Years, Teenage Years

"Moksha" is really a satire of myself. I've always been interested in Eastern spirituality. I'm particularly interested in enlightenment and the spiritual pursuit to liberate ourselves (I'm a Buddhist at heart). During my teenage years, I imagined I'd end up going to India to become a yogi; study with the last living saints in a cave; give up all my worldly possessions; learn to levitate. And there's still part of me that can see myself "disappearing" for some years at an ashram somewhere.

- Alexander Weinstein

source: Source: www.raintaxi.com

topic: Spiritual, Buddhist, Teenage, Worldly Possessions, Moksha

In a lot of areas of my life, particularly in my teenage years, I began to think about the world, and to think about the universe as being a part of my conscious everyday life.

- Julius Erving

topic: Motivational, Basketball, Teenage, Teenage Years

I really can't be bothered going to a barber. And shaving every morning, that's nightmarish. I spent my teenage years covered in tiny little bits of toilet paper.

- Alan Moore

topic: Morning, Teenage, Years, Teenage Years

I did throw a lot of eggs into one basket, as you do in your teenage years - 'I am buying these records, I am wearing this'. I did quite a bit of that. You have to do it, wear your stupid shoes, wear your stupid hair.

- Dylan Moran

topic: Teenage, Stupid, Hair, Your Stupid, Teenage Years

My teenage years were spent trying to look like Rod Stewart - I ended up looking like Dave Hill from Slade.

- Tony Parsons

topic: Teenage, Years, Trying, Teenage Years

I love family. In this movie [Everybody Loves Somebody], my character is a successful OB-GYN and yet she goes back to her teenage years when she's with her parents. Like, that's me.

- Karla Souza

source: Source: www.sheknows.com

topic: Teenage, Character, Successful, Teenage Years

I spent my teenage years in Paris when my dad was stationed there, and I'd look at women in their forties and think, 'That's the age I want to be.'

- Helen McCrory

topic: Dad, Teenage, Thinking, Teenage Years

My mother married again after my father's death - another Royal Air Force officer, and a very different kind of man. We went to Australia when I was eight or nine. We lived there for a couple of years, and then came back and lived in North Wales for the whole of my teenage years... I learned how to write poems quite a lot. I just had a good time reading and reading and reading. So that's where I did most of my growing up.

- Philip Pullman

source: "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November 2012.

topic: Mother, Growing Up, Couple, Teenage Years, Had A Good Time

I want to raise my kids, I want to get them through their teenage years. ... I do love my work with the UN and with PSVI so if I can do more of that and be more effective I will do whatever I can.

- Angelina Jolie

topic: Love, Teenage, Kids, Teenage Years

It's not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources. If you were to write something now, I bet there's a pretty good chance you'd call on your teenage years, your experiences then, stuff you learned then.

- Paul McCartney

topic: Teenage, Writing, Years, Teenage Years

I grew up in predominantly black neighborhoods and went to predominantly black schools. And hip-hop is what I grew up listening to in my teenage years. Basically I'm just being myself.

- Mark Wahlberg

topic: Teenage, School, Years, Teenage Years

I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years.

- Patrick Wilson

topic: Teenage, School, Thinking, Teenage Years, School Years

It's Aslan, the lion from The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe. It's a symbol of my hellish childhood. I struggled through my oppressive teenage years and when I turned 18 I escaped. Like Aslan I was finally free.

- Christina Ricci

source: "Christina Ricci's New Tattoo", www.femalefirst.co.uk. April 8, 2007.

topic: Teenage, Years, Childhood, Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe, Lion Witch Wardrobe

Men in their teenage years and even into their mid to late 20s, they're just baboons. They're really not capable of taking account of other people's feelings, being considerate, being intimate. They are essentially high on this drug of testosterone and they have very little experience and intellect. And that's a terrible combination.

- Michael Catherwood

topic: Teenage, Men, Drug, Teenage Years

Acting was always there, it's true. But for a long time, in my teenage years, I wasn't sure about it - not because I didn't like it, but I didn't want people to think I hadn't earned it.

- Bill Skarsgard

topic: Teenage, Thinking, Years, Teenage Years

You're always looking at last year, or 10 years ago, or your school days, or your teenage years, your formative years. Because that's exactly what they are, they're your formative years.

- Paul McCartney

topic: Teenage, School, Years, Formative Years, Teenage Years

From birth to the teenage years, the brain undergoes a fourfold increase in volume

- Eric Jensen

source: Eric Jensen (2005). “Teaching with the Brain in Mind”, p.11, ASCD

topic: Teenage, Years, Brain, Teenage Years

It is strange how the romances of the teenage years retain a poignancy all through life - how a girl who turns you down when you're 16 retains an aura in your memory even long after you, and she, have ceased to be who you were then. I attended my high school reunion a couple of weeks ago and discovered, in the souvenir booklet assembled by the reunion committee, that one of the girls in my class had a crush on me all those years ago. I would have given a great deal to have had that information at the time.

- Roger Ebert

source: Roger Ebert (1997). “Roger Ebert's Video Companion”, Andrews McMeel Pub

topic: Crush, Girl, Teenage, Poignancy, Teenage Years

In my teenage years I was as addicted to great pop as I was to free jazz, electronic music, and hardcore blues.

- Scott Walker

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Teenage, Years, Free Jazz, Teenage Years

I'm a big genre fan. I'm a big science fiction nerd and horror film nerd. I'm obsessed with Pam Grier. I wanted to be her for all of my teenage years.

- Alex Stapleton

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Teenage, Years, Nerd, Horror Film, Teenage Years

Obviously from childhood to my teenage years, I really came into my own. I left the house early; I was on the streets when I was, like, 15. I've been holdin' my own since that age.

- Nipsey Hussle

source: Source: djbooth.net

topic: Teenage, Years, House, Teenage Years

I really didn't settle stuff spiritually until I was 17 years of age. But through my teenage years I just knew that someday I had to settle accounts and get things straightened up and move in that direction.

- John C. Maxwell

source: Source: www.christianbookpreviews.com

topic: Teenage, Moving, Years, Teenage Years

One of the reasons that I think I do love to write is because I did have a difficult childhood and not so great teenage years. It always helped me escape from my problems.

- Meg Cabot

source: "Meg Cabot's teen escapism and empowered heroines". Interview with Ashley Strickland, www.cnn.com. May 12, 2011.

topic: Teenage, Writing, Thinking, Difficult Childhood, Teenage Years

I remember [in teenage years] thinking there were a lot of check boxes out there to sort teens into appropriate molds, and they didn't seem to make check boxes for whatever it was that I had grown up into. I definitely explore that a lot in my novels.

- Maggie Stiefvater

source: Source: www.seventeen.com

topic: Teenage, Thinking, Years, Teenage Years

It took me until my teenage years to realize that I was medicating with music. I was pushing back against my stupid school uniform, instructors who called me by my last name and my classmates, who, while friendly enough, were not at all inspiring.

- Henry Rollins

topic: Teenage, Stupid, School, Instructors, Pushing Back

The responsibility of building leadership in the Church belongs to the father and the mother. . . . As youth grow and mature through their teenage years and move toward adulthood, the Church picks up an important role in this process of giving youth an opportunity to lead, but it begins in the home.

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

topic: Mother, Teenage, Father, Teenage Years

I was a swimmer growing up. I was a miler - like long, long distance. So I was in the water for four or five hours a day. That's not the way you want to spend your teenage years.

- Scott Speedman

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Growing Up, Teenage, Distance, Teenage Years

If I could look back at the seeds of faith, they were planted back then. I remember in my early teenage years - when, naturally, we become more rebellious, prideful, self-directed and self-willed - I had this nun, Sister Mary Martinella, I'll never forget her - only because of one thing that she said that stuck in my spirit. And it was a rebuke.

- Patricia Mauceri

topic: Teenage, Years, Self, Rebuke, Teenage Years

All my teenage years my punk was hip-hop - I just hated pop music.

- Gustav Ejstes

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Teenage, Years, Hip Hop, Teenage Years

I had some struggles later in my teenage years. I moved away from home and struggled a little bit being on my home and finding out who I was and trying to mix that with my faith and make it real. I learned a lot of lessons and made some mistakes along the way.

- Mike Fisher

source: Source: www.beliefnet.com

topic: Teenage, Real, Mistake, Teenage Years