Teenager Quotes - Page 38

• Each man delights in the work that suits him best.

  Homer

  Inspirational, Men, Delight

  Homer (1996). “The Odyssey”, Viking Press

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• We are all freaks. Yes! Alone in our rooms at night, we are all weirdoes and outcasts and losers. That is what being a teenager is all about! Whether you admit it or not, you are all worried that the others won’t accept you, that if they knew the real you, they would recoil in horror. Each of us carries with us a secret shame that we think is somehow unique…And if we are, each of us, freaks – then can’t we accept what’s different in each other and move on?

  James St. James

  Real, Moving, Unique

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• My instinct was always have your gun in your hand. Especially when you are telling somebody to do something. But, in fact, the police academy discourages this. They feel your gun should rarely, if ever, be brought out of its holster. Most certainly not when children are involved, which is exactly when I saw myself using my gun most often. A truant teenager loitering outside a movie theater is going to be far more motivated to return to school when he has the barrel of a .45 pressed against his cheek.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Children, School, Gun

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• One of the liberating effects of science fiction when I was a teenager was precisely its ability to tune me into all sorts of strange data and make me realize that I wasn’t as totally isolated in perceiving the world as being monstrous and crazy

  William Gibson

  Crazy, Data, Tunes

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• Sadly, American teenagers are to a weightless vacuum as seat cushions are to polyurethane foam -

  Marisha Pessl

  Vacuums, Foam, Seats

  Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.130, Penguin

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• some things you will think of yourself,...some things God will put into your mind

  Homer

  Inspirational, Thinking, Mind

  Homer (1937). “The story of Odysseus”

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• All teenagers knew this was true. The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your face. For years, parents tell you that you can be anything, have anything, do anything. That was why she'd been so eager to grow up-until she got to adolescence and hit a big fat wall ofreality. As it turned out, she couldn't have anything she wanted. You didn't get to be pretty or smart or popular just because you wanted it. You didn't control your own destiny, you were too busy trying to fit in.

  Jodi Picoult

  Wall, Growing Up, Smart

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• As a teenager, Michel believed that suffering conferred dignity on a person. Now he had to admit that he had been wrong. What conferred dignity on people was television.

  Michel Houellebecq

  People, Suffering, Television

  "The Elementary Particles". Book by, August 24, 1998.

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• Well, he was wearing those really bad pants ant that awful shirt. Clearly he did need some things explained to him bya teenager, but i didn't think it was the right time to mention his unforunate and obvious fashion impairment.

  P. C. Cast

  Fashion, Thinking, Needs

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• 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.

  Richey Edwards

  Depression, Hurt, Done

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• Real success comes in small portions day by day. You need to take pleasure in life's daily little treasures. It is the most important thing in measuring success.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Positive, Real

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• Teenagers travel in droves, packs, swarms. ... To the librarian, they're a gaggle of geese. To the cook, they're a scourge of locusts. To department stores, they're a big beautiful exaltation of larks ... all lovely and loose and jingly.

  Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

  Beautiful, Attitude, Lovely

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• When I was a teenager, I was so dumb my mamma knocked me off the porch with a broom. You wish you had so good a mamma.

  Deacon Jones

  Football, Nfl, Dumb

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• Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Inspirational, Teenage, Adultery

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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 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, Teenage

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• If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.

  Al Bernstein

  Inspirational, Birthday, Teenage

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

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• 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, Teenage, Children

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

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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, Teenage, Flower

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

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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, Teenage, Teens

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

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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, Teenage, Rocks

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• Youth! youth! how buoyant are thy hopes! they turn, like marigolds, toward the sunny side.

  Jean Ingelow

  Inspirational, Teenage, Teens

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.83

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• Publishing a sophisticated men's magazine seemed to me the best possible way of fulfilling a dream I'd been nurturing ever since I was a teenager: to get laid a lot.

  Hugh Hefner

  Dream, Sex, Men

  Interview with Larry Dubois, iplayboy.com. January 1, 1974.

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• When the scope of the problem seems insuperable, isn't it time to call this one, give it up, and get on with life as we know it. I do know that answer to that one: that's called child abuse. When my teenager worries that her generation won't be able to fix this problem, I have to admit to her that it won't be up to her generation. It's up to mine. This is a now-or-never kind of project.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Children, Giving, Worry

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• As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar...Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel...This song ("Until It's Time for You To Go") popped into my head while I was falling in love with someone I knew couldn't stay with me. The words are about honesty and freedom inside the heart.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Song, Falling In Love, Honesty

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