Teenagers Quotes

• I think we're always doing something for teenagers and youngsters because BTS originally performed itself as a socially conscious band. We always wanted to sell our performances like we did with our debut.

  

  Kim Nam-joon BTS
  • Band
  • Socially
  • Youngsters

• We don't get groupies.We get teenagers who want to read us their poetry.

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.
  • Poetry
  • Teenagers
  • Groupies

• Like all teenagers in the early '60s, I put down my hockey stick when the Beatles got big and picked up a guitar. We all thought we'd be rock stars. Then I got into comedy, but I'd always find a way to use my guitar, such as writing songs and doing musical parodies.

  

  Rick Moranis
  • Guitar
  • Hockey
  • Beatles

• The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Internet
  • Curse
  • Teenagers

• Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • War
  • Society
  • Teenagers

• I went freelance in 1996 and my children are now teenagers and it seemed right.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Children
  • Now
  • Teenagers

• There are just so many funny kids and teenagers. They're just not aware of how funny they are.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Kids
  • Funny
  • Just

• The groups, though, were my inspiration way back then. I liked Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers.

  

  Eddie Floyd
  • Inspiration
  • Groups
  • Frankie Lyman

• I have teenagers, so I listen to a lot of music. They turn me on to great music.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Great
  • Music
  • Listen

• That's why teenagers fascinate me – they're like children with drivers' licenses. Like children in that their impulses are so direct.

  

  Nancy Jo Sales
  • Children
  • Impulses
  • Fascinate

• Women, teenagers, we have to really empower each other.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Women
  • Teenagers
  • Empower

• I try to write stories that will attract younger readers and make them feel part of a wider readership. I do not feel able to write books that are about, or even for, teenagers; and I am inclined to be suspicious of books which 'target' them.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Stories
  • Write
  • Readership

• As teenagers, a lot of us just did not want much to do with Arabic culture - we looked to the West.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Want
  • Culture
  • Arabic

• When we're growing up and being teenagers, oftentimes you try so hard to define yourself. You try to create an image of yourself because you don't really know who you are yet. And that can be kind of limiting because you forget that there are actually so many different sides of identity. And it's important to recognize that everyone is completely different.

  

  Amandla Stenberg
  • Up
  • Different
  • Important

• Older people say, 'Oh I loved you in 'Sense and Sensibility,'' and that's the only film they want to talk about. Equally, there are people who only want to talk about 'Galaxy Quest.' And there's a whole bunch of teenagers who only want to talk about 'Dogma.'

  

  Alan Rickman
  • People
  • Galaxy
  • Dogma

• Teenagers are passionate and they want music that speaks within their hearts. It's a big deal for students to listen to Christian music and talk about it at school. Music is a very exciting element of your life when you're love. I think it's huge.

  

  Mark Hall Casting Crowns
  • Life
  • Music
  • School

• Halloween was banned in Haddonfield and I think that the basic idea was that if you tried to suppress something, it would only rear its head more strongly. By the very [attempt] of trying to erase the memory of Michael Myers, [the teenagers] were going to ironically bring him back into existence.

  

  Dennis Etchison
  • Existence
  • Halloween
  • Attempt

• 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
  • Travel
  • Librarian

• Most teenagers don’t have much swag.

  

  Chris Black
  • Teenagers
  • Swag

• There's so many things that I've gone through that I want to share because there's other teenagers that are going through the same things or will go through the same things.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Want
  • Same
  • Teenagers

• Sometimes we just go back to the hotel and sleep because we're really tired. Other times we'll be really hyped up and want to go out and do something -- basically make our own fun. Because we're all teenagers -- and you know what teenagers get up to -- we influence the older people to do teenage stunts, which is pretty funny. I won't mention any names, because we'll probably get in trouble, but we took this guy egging... like we were egging all these houses. It was too funny. Just being a hooligan, being an idiot really -- but nothing illegal.

  

  Ben Gillies Silverchair
  • Fun
  • Sleep
  • Trouble

• Teenagers are the greatest readers in the world - honest, unsnobby and loyal.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • World
  • Honest
  • Teenagers

• Like so many Boomers, I saw 'Lawrence of Arabia' in 1962 when it was first released and when we were young teenagers. I'm not quite sure why - I really wish some psychologist would explain this - but that movie had a tremendous effect on many of us.

  

  Mary Doria Russell
  • Why
  • Movie
  • Wish

• If you think about 2Pac, Biggie, and Nas, all of those guys were teenagers or in their early 20s when they got started. Everybody acts like young people have to be silly and lack perspective. Those guys had incredible perspective, and everything that they said was before 25 years old.

  

  Ernest Dion Wilson
  • Perspective
  • Acts
  • Teenagers

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