Teens Quotes

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

  Dave Barry

  Inspirational, Funny, Teenage

  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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• Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.97

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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, Shame

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

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• This body is yours. It is your home. The keeper of your soul. The resting place of your spirit. No one can ever take that away.

  Susane Colasanti

  Healing, Home, Soul

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• 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, Teenager, Ambition

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

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

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Being Yourself, Teenage, Comedian

  "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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• In your teens, you think you know everything, and you know nothing. By your thirties, you're sure you know nothing, but you're happy with that.

  Tea Leoni

  Thinking, Age, You Think You Know

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• When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.

  John Green

  Teenage, Stupid, Real

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

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• All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.

  Joan Chen

  Inspirational, Running, Teenager

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Teens wanted things that were real, that they connected with, it doesn't have to reflect reality directly. They love 'The Hunger Games' not because it's real in that it happens, but the emotions there are real, and it's very relatable.

  David Levithan

  Love, Real, Games

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• Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.

  Dave Barry

  Inspirational, Teenager, Advice

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

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Children, Effort, Literature

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• Like the teens I worked with, I understood the need for miracles--they kept reality from paralyzing you

  Jodi Picoult

  Reality, Miracle, Needs

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• My kids will be needing me a lot when they hit their teens. If I know anything about being a teenager. I need to be braced to be spending a lot of time with all six of them and making sure I can be there for when they go through everything.

  Angelina Jolie

  Teenager, Kids, Six

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

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Decision, Kind, Determine

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• Strauss admits to being obsessed by his mother's rejection, and with the resultant rents in self-esteem. The Game echoes with disturbingly abusive comments leveled at his adolescent self, a self he feels was unacceptable. With bravado, he expresses regret that he didn't rack up more sexual conquests in his teens; in person, he expresses a truer regret that he was intimidated by life itself.

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke

  Mother, Regret, Self Esteem

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• within that ageing outer shell we remain very much the same as we did in our late teens and early twenties.

  M.M. Kaye

  Self, Age, Twenties

  M. M. Kaye (2015). “The Sun in the Morning”, p.19, St. Martin's Griffin

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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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• youth is quick in feeling but weak in judgement.

  Homer

  Inspirational, Teenager, Judgement

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• We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.

  Jean Houston

  Motivation, Healing, Waiting

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• Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.

  Robert Breault

  Beauty, Beautiful, Healing

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• 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.

  Mary Pipher

  Parent, Adolescence

  Mary Pipher (2005). “Reviving Ophelia”, p.21, Penguin

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• Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Girl, Mean, Literature

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.20, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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