Teenage Years Quotes - Page 4

• If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.

  Rachel Johnson

  Teenage, Years, Parent

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• I listened to classic rock and roll, and punk rock. 'Goon Squad' provides a pretty accurate playlist of my teenage years, though it leaves out 'The Who,' which was my absolute favorite band.

  Jennifer Egan

  Teenage, Rocks, Years

  "Author Jennifer Egan: Making Her Own Rules". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. March 25, 2011.

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• Have you ever found your heart's desire and then lost it? I had seen myself, a portrait of myself as a reader. My childhood: days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew, forbidden books read secretively late at night. Teenage years reading -trying to read- books I'd heard were important, Naked Lunch, and The Fountainhead, Ulysses and Women in Love... It was as though I had dreamt the perfect lover, who vanished as I woke, leaving me pining and surly.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Teenage, Book, Reading

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• I was buying old records a lot in my early teenage years and I was mostly drawn toward the artwork even more than the band itself. I loved the way the art set the scene for the music.

  Arik Roper

  Art, Teenage, Years

  Source: dailydead.com

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• This is just too awful. Such an amazing talent [like George Michael] gone too soon. Wham was part of the soundtrack to my teenage years.

  Nicola Sturgeon

  Teenage, Years, Gone

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• I get along really well with [my father] now, but I had a terrible time with him in my teenage years. All we did was scream at each other, and when we weren't screaming at each other, we just wouldn't talk to each other.

  George Michael

  Teenage, Father, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I started my teenage years singing in churches across America, and finally wound up on a big stage.

  Amy Grant

  Teenage, Years, America

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• My mother's a staunch feminist, so I grew up with very strong feminist messages. As a result, I battled her in my teenage years because my image of being a man was a deformed one.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Strong, Teenage, Men

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm a huge fan of Tupac. I'm from Chicago and his music helped me kind of get through that phase of my childhood, my teenage years. He was one of the biggest artists of all time and his music got me through just day to day life. He was a key to our generation and culture and he still is, even after his passing.

  Cory Hardrict

  Teenage, Artist, Childhood

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

  John Ciardi

  Inspirational, Sarcastic, Children

  1962 In the Saturday Review, Fall issue.

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• Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves.

  Virginia Satir

  Inspirational, Teenage, People

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• Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.

  Erma Bombeck

  Inspirational, Witty, Happy Mothers Day

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In the time it takes you to understand a 14-year-old, he turns 15.

  Robert Breault

  Inspirational, Teenage, Years

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• It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.

  E. W. Howe

  Education, Teenage, Teaching

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• How strange that the young should always think the world is against them - when in fact that is the only time it is for them.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Inspirational, Teenage, Thinking

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.106, BookBaby

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• I was a happy kid up until I hit the teen years.

  Rick Springfield

  Kids, Happy Kid, Years

  "American TV Icon: Rick Springfield". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. December 27, 2007.

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• As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Social Studies "Tips for Teens" (1981)

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• Teenagers complain there's nothing to do, then stay out all night doing it.

  Bob Phillips

  Inspirational, Teenage, Night

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• The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

  Quentin Crisp

  Teenage, Parent, Copying

  The Naked Civil Servant ch. 19 (1968)

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• Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.

  Doug Larson

  Inspirational, Funny, Children

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• Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Inspirational, Laughter, Teenage

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• A new biography came out that says that in high school Obama was a huge pothead … Mitt Romney had to respond to this and said, ‘It is appalling that Obama spent his teenage years goofing around and smoking pot when he should have been pinning down gay kids and cutting their hair.

  Bill Maher

  Teenage, School, Kids

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• There's a taste in the air, sweet and vaguely antiseptic, that reminds him of his teenage years in these streets, and of a general state of longing, a hunger for life to begin that from this distance seems like happiness.

  Ian Mcewan

  Sweet, Teenage, Distance

  Ian McEwan (2010). “Saturday”, p.158, Random House

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