Teenager Quotes

I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It's very character-building.

When I was a teenager, I had trouble getting a boyfriend, so I imagined Arthur Rimbaud or Bob Dylan as my boyfriend.

I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's.

although it has been said that idle hands are the devil's workshop, when it comes to teenagers, both idle and active hands are the devil's workshop.

Everything about being a teenager and not feeling like you fit in is just magnified by being a mutant!

I was a punk rocker when I was a teenager. I wanted to look like Nancy Spungen. I had dyed blonde hair and lots of piercings.

The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding.

I'd had my daughter when I was a teenager - I took my daughter to college with me.

My friend Phil has a theory that the Lord, having made teenagers, felt constrained to make amends and so created the golden retriever.

I harbored a lot of resentment as a teenager and as a young adult. I still have a problem with authority, I'm trying to listen!

When you're a teenager, you don't want to bring your emotions to the surface and talk about them. You want to push them away.

Drugs are in every walk of life - doctors, lawyers, preachers, the guy who works for IBM, teenagers on the street, teenagers in school.

I've never hit anybody in my life. I never would, and the only way I could make a point was by hurting myself...It's something I've done since I was a teenager.

As a teenager, you're still discovering who you are, what your life is about, and who you want to be as a person. It's very intense.

They are called 'Emos' now, and before that they were 'Goths.' They didn't have a name for it when I was one, but I was that black-wearing teenager and yes, I wore a little eyeliner.

Teenagers have a legitimate voice. We deserve to have a seat at the table and a place in the conversation. We're not exempt from politics and social movements; we're affected by them.

These teenagers [that drop out of school to take the higher wage jobs] take jobs that would go to unskilled adults, making it harder for those adults to make the transition from welfare to work.

I don't know any teenager with a positive attitude.

I hated school. I don't trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.

The music you love when you're a teenager is always going to be the most important to you.

Each man delights in the work that suits him best.

I get good vibes from people. There is a thread of DNA that runs from the days that I was a young teenager to these days. It feels good to go back there.

I was very superstitious when I was a teenager, and I had to fight against that because it made me feel anxious.

I find it very, very hard. He was part of the fabric of my life. We were kids together, and teenagers. We spent the whole of our lives with each other because of our music.

Having grown up in Oklahoma when it was one of the last states which prohibited liquor, I grew up with War On Drugs, where every teenager knew who the bootleggers were

Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk.

The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.

I think all teenagers feel alone, and that nobody else knows what they are going through and all that sort of stuff.

As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic career developed only by lucky circumstances.

I get a lot of teenagers going, 'Yo, Krueger,' and honking their horn and giving me the claw. Yeah, I'm recognized.

A large family and Democrats have a lot in common: teenagers and Democrats are always happy spending other people's money.

I hated teenagers in comics because they were always sidekicks. And I always felt if I were a superhero, there's no way I'd pal around with some teenager, you know.

Especially as a teenager, I was always being racially profiled by the police. You just see all this injustice, and you want to do something about it, but you don't know how.

Where did I get the nerve to think I could handle American teenagers? Ignorance. That's where I got the nerve.

There's something about being a teenager that's so sincere. Everything is more epic, like your first crush. I feel that it's not always portrayed very accurately.

Now, all the movies are for teenagers. It's very difficult for an actress to find really deep, beautiful characters to play.

I think a lot of young teenagers try to get esteem from accolades from other people, or boys, and what you learn as you get older is that you have to create that within yourself.

Also, when you think about a show that you used to watch as a kid or as a teenager, you look at it through sort of rose colored glasses when you remember it.

I was quite the quiet teenager. I was a bit of a loner, a little bit of an outsider.

Hillary [Clinton] even said that, whether or not teenagers want treatment, they have to get it. So it's involuntary treatment.

College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage.

Music was my friend when I was a teenager, and I would inhabit and take comfort in lyrics. That's how I want to write.

A watched child never learns.

Most books and movies that are handed to teenagers are filled with stereotypes.

Books and music saved me as a teenager because it was through them that I realized that I wasn't alone in my obsessive love for words and music.

All teenagers want to rebel a little and break away. But I think you are always going to want to go back to your parents for that safety they provide.

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.

As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together

Being a teen idol is what I've waited for my whole life

Pokémon was made with Miyamoto-san's advice. Since I was a teenager, playing Donkey Kong, he's always been my role model. He's a mentor for my heart.