Teenager Quotes

• As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition, too.

  Johnny Depp

  Inspirational, Ambition, Insecure

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

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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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• Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Inspirational, Teens, Want

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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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• The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.

  Dorothy Parker

  Inspirational, Funny, Hilarious

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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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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• 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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• So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Inspirational, Stay Strong, Growing Up

  FaceBook post by Vanessa Hudgens from Apr 23, 2013

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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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• 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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• If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Inspirational, Watches, Teens

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• I was not that pretty a girl and I was never pursued as a teenager or young woman, so I was used to having no shame and trying to get people to love me.

  Martha Wainwright

  Love, Girl, People

  "Formerly Known as What's-His-Name's Sister" by Daphne Merkin, www.elle.com. April 20, 2011.

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• The most important role models should and could be parents and teachers. But that said, once you're a teenager you've probably gotten as much of an example from your parents as you're going to.

  Andrew Shue

  Inspirational, Teacher, Role Models

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• Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It's when you make your best friends - I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks.

  Sophia Bush

  Inspirational, Girl, Heart

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• We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.

  Bryan White

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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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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• Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai, who is 17, has become the youngest person ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize. So a Pakistani teenager literally can change the world, while American teenagers literally can't even.

  Colin Jost

  Winning, World, Malala

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• 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.

  Rowan Blanchard

  Deserve

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.

  Alan Ladd

  Inspirational, Growing Up, Teenage

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

  Edgar Friedenberg

  Inspirational, Teenage, Target

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• Being a teenager is hard.

  Mae Whitman

  Being A Teenager, Hard

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• Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.

  Carol Burnett

  Inspirational, Teenage, Pimples

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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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• 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, Teenage

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

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• You've got to grow up sometime.

  Winona Ryder

  Inspirational, Growing Up, Grows

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