When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe.Dario Argento
To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.Dave Barry
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
As I've said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager.Joe Bob Briggs
Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.Terry Brooks
Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.Carol Burnett
All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.Joan Chen
I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown.Diane Cilento
I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.Robert Cormier
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.e. e. cummings
If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty.Jamie Lee Curtis
Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.Jamie Lee Curtis
Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.Claire Danes
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
Youth is the trustee of prosperity.Benjamin Disraeli
Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father.Dale Earnhardt
Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.David Elkind
Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.Jules Feiffer
My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.George Foreman
Everybody is a teenage idol.Barry Gibb
Teenagers who are never required to vacuum are living in one.Fred G. Gosman
A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.John B. S. Haldane
Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.G. Stanley Hall
I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.Alice Hoffman
So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!Vanessa Hudgens
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.Milla Jovovich
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
Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.Louise J. Kaplan
Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.Louise J. Kaplan
The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not.Louise J. Kaplan
Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves.John Knowles
But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise.Wayne Kramer
Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.Alan Ladd
I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.Nigella Lawson
As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.Fran Lebowitz
I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone.Adriana Lima
Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.Ben Lindsey
When I look in the mirror I see the girl I was when I was growing up, with braces, crooked teeth, a baby face and a skinny body.Heather Locklear
I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.Rob Lowe
Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.Jena Malone
The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.John C. Maxwell
I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.Constance Baker Motley
I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things.Miranda Otto
Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.Laurence J. Peter
Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.Mary Pipher
People - not just in their teenage years - hold on to this fantasy of love when they're not ready to have a real relationship.Keri Russell
I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.Winona Ryder
You've got to grow up sometime.Winona Ryder
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
The most important role models should and could be parents and teachers. But that said, once you're a teenager you've probably gotten as much of an example from your parents as you're going to.Andrew Shue
I mean, I'm pretty good in real life, but sometimes people seem surprised that I'm like a normal teenager and wear black nail polish and I'm just a little bit more edgy than the person I play on television.Brittany Snow
This generation has given up on growth. They're just hoping for survival.Penelope Spheeris
I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.Uma Thurman
My teenage years were exactly what they were supposed to be. Everybody has their own path. It's laid out for you. It's just up to you to walk it.Justin Timberlake
Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.Clyde Tombaugh
I think there's a time in your life where you don't feel like you fit in. I think everyone has that when you're a teenager, especially, and especially in the society we live in.Matthew Vaughn
I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try.Ethel Waters
We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.Bryan White
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