Teenager Quotes · Page 21

It's not easy being a teenager, we get treated like children but expected to act like adults.

— Anonymous

[As a young teenager] Galois read [Legendre's] geometry from cover to cover as easily as other boys read a pirate yarn.

— Eric Temple Bell

As a teenager, I didn't read a ton of teen fiction, and now I feel like I wish that I had.

— Jesse Andrews

I was a teenager in the 1970s and grew up in Medina, Saudi Arabia.

— Jamal Khashoggi

As a teenager especially, I just wanted to do my thing and not be noticed.

— Kristi Yamaguchi

For me the 60s was important because I was a teenager then and the bands then were the influences.

— David Essex

Ya we are friends that have sex. It's nothing new you can ask any teenager it is totally normal.

— Friends That Had Sex More Than One Time

“This is partly because few teenagers are instinctively good poets. It’s about as common as cats being instinctively friendly.”

— Kevin DeYoung

Especially when you play a character for so many years, the character ends up reflecting a lot of who you are and…

— Sara Gilbert

The lo-fi scene and the riot grrrl thing had a huge influence on me. As a teenager I went to see Bikini…

— Kieran Hebden

I hated school. I don't trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you…

— Stephen King

Surely that was why faith had been invented: to raise teenagers without dying. Although of course it was also why death was…

— Lorrie Moore

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

I was much more into romance as a teenager and it's been a kind of new discovery for me to learn about…

— Olivia Wilde

I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to…

— Francesca Lia Block

My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener,…

— Frances O'Grady

When I was a teenager, the way some of these kids out here be actively gay, it would have been ridiculed in…

— Talib Kweli

My colleague Senator John Ensign of Nevada told me a story that epitomizes the selfishness of our culture: When I was a…

— Rick Santorum

“In fact, the teenager's concept of "square" (f the term is still in use), when they talk about their parents, is almost…

— William Ryan

I did some pretty bad things as a teenager. When I was 13, I took my friend's mom's car out for a…

— Amanda Righetti

I've always liked TV shows that have slightly unlikable leads, where you root for them in spite of a lot of things.…

— Bo Burnham

I grew up in the 70s, when people talked on the phone - and just talked more. I remember the phone was…

— Jennifer Egan

I was a teenager, and I went to see the Superman movie, and up to the point I walked into that movie,…

— Mark Waid

There is the global teenager hypothesis, that what happened in the '60s in America was that there was, the baby boom cohort…

— Howard Rheingold

Its amazing to think that our entire future depends on how well we do as a teenager.

— Eva Putzka

The thing I longed for as a teenager is now an object of neglect and scorn. I've grown to hate my telephone.

— Wendy Wasserstein

'The Darkest Minds' came from a period in my life where I felt my most powerless, when I was a teenager.

— Alexandra Bracken

We are living in an age where teenagers are not going to the movies.

— Peter Jackson

Sadly, American teenagers are to a weightless vacuum as seat cushions are to polyurethane foam -

— Marisha Pessl

How come it takes so little time for a child who is afraid of the dark to become a teenager who wants…

— Doug Larson

You’ve never been a teenager, sweetie. You know what’s best for you.

— Stephenie Meyer

The most difficult and, in some ways, the most rewarding thing I've ever been through was emigrating as a teenager.

— Masha Gessen

When I was a teenager, the most valuable American companies were in finance and manufacturing.

— Brianna Wu

Youth! youth! how buoyant are thy hopes! they turn, like marigolds, toward the sunny side.

— Jean Ingelow

Teens just understand the world in ways I don't think any of us adults do.

— Kevin Systrom

I have wanted to have a baby since I was a teenager, but it frightens me. It is much easier to have…

— Carmen Electra

Bribes are the glue that's kept teenagers and parents connected for generations

— Gayle Forman

Sex is no longer a serious taboo. Teenagers sometimes know more about it than adults.

— Alan Watts

“Never underestimate what teens can understand or do. They're smart, creative, and fresh-minded. I wish I was one.”

— Brook Tesla

“I hate being a teenager." "Why?" "Hormones." With a sad half smile, he left.”

— Jodi Meadows