Teenager Quotes
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Character grows in the soil of experience with the fertilization of example, the moisture of ambition, and the sunshine of satisfaction. Character cannot be purchased, bargained for, inherited, rented or imported from afar. It must be home-grown. Purely intellectual development without commensurate internal character development makes as much sense as putting a high-powered sports car in the hands of a teenager who is high on drugs. Yet all too often in the academic world, that's exactly what we do by not focusing on the character development of young people.
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One doesn't remain a teenager forever.
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I hate when people say, "Oh, you're just a teenager," or "It's hormonal." It's like, if a woman is agitated one day, people go, "Oh, she's on her period." That's such garbage. I think I was dealing with a combination of my own inner demons and resentment toward my parents from my earlier days.
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It was important to me that the book didn't comment on being a teenager, but felt instead like a story told by a teenager.
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I put my mother through a lot when I was a teenager. I used to lie a lot. Now, we talk all the time.
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When I was a teenager, my dad watched my films and told me I could go to art college and study animation. He made me see that I could do this for a living.
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My focus has kind of been on teenagers, you know, and I think we've got a huge crisis right now in America, among our teens.
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I felt all the things that other teenagers felt. I was insecure in lots of ways, over-confident in others. I was very emotional. Excitable.
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I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things.
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I love all the teenager stuff like 'Glee,' '90210,' 'Vampire Diaries,' 'Gossip Girl.'
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The best time to have a baby is when you're a black teenager.
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The last time I cried? My godchildren went to see Taylor Swift in concert and got to meet her. They literally ran toward her and hugged her, and it was amazing. I got big bonus points for it. I'll remind them when they're teenagers.
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If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty.
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I've been writing music since I was a teenager. I play keyboards. I'm not much of a player, but I can write. That will come along. I'd like to do a musical.
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When I became a teenager, I got very into clothing. I remember cutting Gucci advertisements and sticking them on my wall.
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I was a veteran, before I was a teenager.
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It bugs me when they have people my age 28 playing teenagers.
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More teenagers go to movies or rent a tape of a movie than sit down and watch sitcoms on television.
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I also remember when I watched Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer 1990 at, like, age 15. That scared the crap out of me. Because it didn't operate inside the usual conventions of the horror genre in the way that I could accept. I can accept horny teenager counselors being murdered at camp. But I couldn't accept the derangement of Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, which was that anyone could be murdered at any moment - whole families, with no build-up music and no meaning. It terrified me.
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I'm so associated with being young and being with a teenager.
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I write books for teenagers because I vividly remember what it felt like to be a teen facing everyday and epic dangers. I don't write to protect them. It's far too late for that. I write to give them weapons-in the form of words and ideas-that will help them fight their monsters. I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.
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At the age of 16 I was already dreaming of having a baby because I felt myself to be an adult, but my mum forbid it. Right now, I feel like a teenager and I want to have fun for one or two more years before starting a family.
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My period as a young teenager when you really listen to music so you can get understand a little bit more about what the music is was, say, 1965 to 1968. I was just lucky to be in those times.
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I would dye my hair every week. I wanted to be a really goth teenager.
