Teens Quotes

I built two forges when I was in my teens. I was just really, really into metalworking and making stuff.

There are so many people we could become, and we leave such a trail of bodies through our teens and twenties that it's hard to tell which one is us. How many versions do we abandon over the years?

I became conflicted in my late teens.

I'm a big believer in giving teens a voice and opportunities to share their stories and experiences.

The show has brought a lot of pleasure and entertainment to an entire generation of Baby Boomers and now their own teens who watch the show on cable.

Everyone who deals with teens seems to agree that the most important and toughest job is staying in connection and conversation ... not delivering a lecture but saying what we think.

I survived a number of garage bands during my teens and early twenties, both as drummer and guitarist. It's nigh impossible for me to listen to music without parsing it.

I was a compulsive eater in my late teens and until I wrote Diet for a Small Planet, so I know what it feels like when food becomes a threat.

You get into your teens, now they can't hold you back. You jump to the next number, or even a few ahead.

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.

When I was in my late teens I was already interested in philosophy.

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.

A recent study announced that 52 per cent of all teens who sign virginity pledges recant them within twelve months. If I'm on my game.

We teach teens what we think they ought to know, and we never tell them what they want to know.

The artist in his teens who is happy is a charlatan. Life comes bursting in all around lis too suddenly, too crudely, too cruelly, for happiness.

I started listening to classical music when I was in my early teens. Prior to that, I listened to pop records or band records.

It wasn't something I started off in my teens or early twenties thinking I want to be a war correspondent. I still don't think of myself as a war correspondent. I'm not. I'm a foreign correspondent.

I loved to write; in my late teens I had a 'zine. But it wasn't until I went back to school, later on in my 20s, that I actually saw that I had writing talent.

My focus has kind of been on teenagers, you know, and I think we've got a huge crisis right now in America, among our teens.

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.

For me, the lives of children and teens are interesting - they are always changing. There's just so much to sort through. All of this makes for good plots and complex characters.

Going through your late teens and early 20s is not an easy time, especially in Hollywood. So you just learn your lessons, you make your mistakes and you move on.

I was fascinated by The Lord of the Rings from about the age of eight and that lasted well into my teens.

Do we dare be ourselves? That is the question that counts.

My advice to teens is to try and do something that scares you every day because it's the only way you can test how far you can really go.

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.

In her lived an innocence of soul of which she seemed unaware.

I write for teens partially to work out whatever it was that I needed to from my own teenage years.

Teens are not like the weird, dumb dwarves you have around your house. They are actually you when you were younger.

It's insulting to believe that teens should have a different kind of book than an adult should.

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.

I would not encourage children or teens to multitask because we don't know where those efforts may lead.

Only those with skin as thick as elephant hide can hope to sail through their teens unscathed by self-doubt and bouts of depression.

I think in general in my teens I had a lot of crushes on men on the Internet, most notably Momus since I was in my late teens. John Darnielle was also another big crush.

I started to play Jazz music in my early teens. A boyfriend brought records over, so I listened to everything

Ever since I was in my teens I had plans at one point in my life to write a novel.

I gravitated toward being a funny guy. I liked the radio comedians. I lived in the Golden Age of radio, and the Golden Age of television came along when I was still in my early teens.

You can determine the kind of life you will have in your 30s and 40s by what you do in your teens.

If my life had gone in a different direction - some of the choices you makes when you're in your teens and your early 20s, I fortunately feel that I haven't been marked by those things.

A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.

We do stigmatise teens a lot and see them as scary and alien.

I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I learned together.

Teens are always shown as one dimensional. They're stereotyped. When I was in high school, I cared about more than getting a date or making the team.

I've been wearing Wrangler jeans for more than a decade now, all the way back to when I first started playing clubs in my teens in Georgia.

Teens in the '90s had the same basic desires as they do now.

I believe that it's vital for children and teens to be educated, to be given information to help them understand the impacts humans are having on our water, soil, and air.

Years ago, after I'd answered several questions from a group of teens, one of them asked how I could stay optimistic and keep on going. I answered that instead of getting sad, I get mad.

The first fiction I ever wrote was short stories. I was writing short stories in my late teens and early twenties, and I think it's how you teach yourself to write.

I always look toward teens on Instagram to really understand what's going on. For some reason, when you're a teen, you just understand the world better than anyone else.

It wasn't until I was in my teens that I started admiring writers as inspirations for my own work, and my earliest influences there were Stephen King, Marion Zimmer Bradley and Richard Adams.