Teens Quotes - Page 12

• I had never really pictured myself working in children's ministries. I always figured I would be more comfortable with maybe teens or adult ministries.

  Willie Aames

  Children, Adults, Would Be

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• High School: Oh, man. This is where boys and girls go from tweens to teens and become complicated and cruel. Girls play sick mind games; boys try to pull each other's penises off and throw them in the bushes. If you can, buy the most expensive jeans in a two-hundred-mile radius of your town and wear them on your first day. If anyone asks how you could afford them say that your father is the president of Ashton Kutcher. When they are like, 'Ashton Kutcher has a president?' answer, 'Yes.' Everyone will be in awe of you and you won't have to go through a lot of pain and cat fights.

  Eugene Mirman

  Girl, Pain, Father

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• To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.

  Damon Hill

  Sports, Athlete, Character

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• Transformation is not five minutes from now; it's a present activity. In this moment you can make a different choice, and it's these small choices and successes that build up over time to help cultivate a healthy self-image and self esteem.

  Jillian Michaels

  Self Esteem, Healing, Weight Loss

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• The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.

  Epictetus

  Motivational, Business, Lying

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.70

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• Coming into your powers can be a very confusing time. Perhaps there is a book on the subject. If you like, we can go see Marian." Yeah, right. Choices and Changes. A Modern Girl's Guide to Casting. My Mom Wants to Kill Me: A Self-Help Book For Teens.

  Kami Garcia

  Girl, Mom, Book

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• Four or five years - nothing at all. But no one over thirty could understand this peculiarly weighted and condensed time, from late teens to early twenties, a stretch of life that needed a name, from school leaver to salaried professional, with a university and affairs and death and choices in between. I had forgotten how recent my childhood was, how long and inescapable it once seemed. How grown up and how unchanged I was.

  Ian Mcewan

  School, Years, Names

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• Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Inspirational, Sympathy, Children

  Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books

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• To the people who love you, you are beautiful already. This is not because they're blind to your shortcomings but because they so clearly see your soul. Your shortcomings then dim by comparison. The people who care about you are willing to let you be imperfect and beautiful, too.

  Victoria Moran

  Beauty, Beautiful, Love You

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• When Reason Breaks is infused with a rare blend of suspense and sensitivity, despair and hope. The poetic spirit of Emily Dickinson shines through the gloom of daily struggles faced by modern teens, as they discover the possibilities where they dwell.

  Margarita Engle

  Struggle, Shining, Despair

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• Youth is, after all, just a moment, but it is the moment, the spark that you always carry in your heart.

  Raisa Gorbacheva

  Inspirational, Teenage, Heart

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• A lot of us first aspired to far-ranging travel and exotic adventure early in our teens; these ambitions are, in fact, adolescent in nature, which I find an inspiring idea...Thus, when we allow ourselves to imagine as we once did, we know, with a sudden jarring clarity, that if we don't go right now, we're never going to do it. And we'll be haunted by our unrealized dreams and know that we have sinned against ourselves gravely.

  Tim Cahill

  Dream, Ambition, Adventure

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• Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce; that it is not genteel comedy even; that it flowers and fructifies on the contrary out of the profoundest tragic depths of the essential dearth in which its subject's roots are plunged. The natural inheritance of everyone who is capable of spiritual life is an unsubdued forest where the wolf howls and the obscene bird of night chatters.

  Henry James, Sr.

  Spiritual, Flower, Night

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• He may not see the King's antique apparel on kids in the Hall, but he does feel a tinge of nostalgia. The amount of teens wearing the Led Zeppelin '77 tour T-shirts walking around the Rock Hall is absurd. Absurd, ... I saw them on that tour and didn't even buy a shirt. It tells you what these kids feel about music. People take music very seriously.

  Howard Kremer

  Kings, Kids, Rocks

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• I remained Ryan's companion on the Hollywood party circuit, growing inured to sex and drugs before I was in my teens.

  Tatum O'Neal

  Sex, Party, Drug

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• I built two forges when I was in my teens. I was just really, really into metalworking and making stuff.

  Christopher Paolini

  Two, Stuff, Built

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• There are many women in their late teens and early twenties who have either experienced violence in a relationship or have witnessed it at home in their childhood.

  Miquita Oliver

  Home, Childhood, Domestic Violence

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• When I was in my teens, I made an appraisal of how comfortable my life could turn out when I became the age I am now. Because of a mechanical failure, the prediction was inexact.

  Arthur Nersesian

  Age, Predictions, Made

  Arthur Nersesian (2009). “The Fuck Up”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• I just believed it easily, the way you might believe and in fact remember that you once had another set of teeth, now vanished but real in spite of that. Until one day, one day when I may even have been in my teens, I knew with a dim sort of hole in my insides that now I didn't believe it anymore.

  Alice Munro

  Real, Believe, One Day

  Alice Munro (2012). “Dear Life”, p.270, Random House

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• We are greater than the sum of our parts.

  John Green

  Life, Teenage, Alaska

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

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• We do stigmatise teens a lot and see them as scary and alien.

  J. K. Rowling

  Scary, Aliens

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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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• My kids probably started drinking coffee in their late teens.

  Howard Schultz

  Drinking, Coffee, Kids

  "Starbucks hits 40 feeling perky". Interview with Bruce Horovitz, www.usatoday.com. March 6, 2011.

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• A great tennis career is something that a 15-year-old normally doesn't have. I hope my example helps other teens believe they can accomplish things they never thought possible.

  Maria Sharapova

  Believe, Helping Others, Years

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• Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars.

  Alan Shepard

  Morning, Airplane, Airports

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