Teenage Quotes

• There isn't a child who hasn't gone out into the brave new world who eventually doesn't return to the old homestead carrying a bundle of dirty clothes.

  Art Buchwald

  Inspirational, Children, Dirty

  Art Buchwald (1986). “"You can fool all of the people all the time"”, Fawcett Books

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

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Motivational, Birthday

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

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• 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

  Years, Path, Up To You

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

  Aimee Teegarden

  Years, Awkward, Crucial

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

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• It's really rare to get a teenage role that resembles something of what it's like to be a young person, that isn't a cliché or a stereotype.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Roles, Stereotype, Young

  Source: collider.com

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• To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.

  Dave Barry

  Inspirational, Funny, Parenting

  Dave Barry (2013). “My Teenage Son's Goal in Life Is to Make Me Feel 3,500 Years Old: and Other Thoughts on Parenting from Dave Barry”, p.73, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Violet will be a good color for hair at just about the same time that brunette becomes a good color for flowers.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Inspirational, Flower, Hair

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.328, Vintage

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• When buying a used car, punch the buttons on the radio. If all the stations are rock and roll, there's a good chance the transmission is shot.

  Larry Lujack

  Inspirational, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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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, Laughing

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.

  Andrew Greeley

  Joy, Sorrow, Kind

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• Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Inspirational, Funny, Family

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• Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.

  Max Lerner

  Art, Fall, Years

  Max Lerner (1959). “The Unfinished Country”

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• When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.

  Max Lerner

  Serious, Adolescence, Puberty

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• What a shame that allowances have to stop with the teens: both those that are paid to us and those that are made for us.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Inspirational, Teens, Shame

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.105, BookBaby

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• You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is.

  Dean Kamen

  Inspirational, Stars, Thinking

  "Kamen: we need more geeks now" by Michaelle Delio, www.wired.com. March 25, 2002.

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• Empathy is what separates human beings from teenage boys.

  Victor LaValle

  Boys, Empathy, Humans

  Victor LaValle (2011). “Big Machine”, p.121, Oldcastle Books

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• Being a teenager and figuring out who you are is hard enough without someone attacking you.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Being Yourself, Comedian, Finding Yourself

  "Gay suicide sparks calls for tougher privcacy laws in the US". "AM" on ABC Radio, www.abc.net.au. October 2, 2010.

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

  Bob Phillips

  Inspirational, Night, Complaining

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• Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Differences

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• We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.

  John Green

  Hope, Alaska, Broken

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.161, Penguin

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• I have seen my kid struggle into the kitchen in the morning with outfits that need only one accessory: an empty gin bottle.

  Erma Bombeck

  Inspirational, Morning, Struggle

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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, People, Trying

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• The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.

  Clint Eastwood

  War, Guy, Generations

  "Rough Month for President Obama", www.foxnews.com. November 19, 2009.

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• Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.

  Carol Burnett

  Inspirational, Pimples, Teens

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