Teenager Quotes · Page 25

If you look at my audiences, even in Europe, they're hardly teenagers.

— Norman Granz

A short conversation with you is much more important to me that a long conversation with someone else.

— Anonymous

For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother

— Homer

To me, it's a very moral film. If my son were a teenager now, I would drag him to see it.

— Ellen Burstyn

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

— Jesse Andrews

[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

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

— Anonymous

If kids and teenagers can get into a band, its probably not because they think its brainy.

— Ezra Koenig

At 18, I got a publishing deal, so I was like, 'I can do this for real and not go to college.'…

— Meghan Trainor

I had to do something. A young man came into my home for protection. Is he dangerous? No. Is he a spy?…

— Chiune Sugihara

As a young ma,n I was an absolute idiot. I think my exes would say I was a likeable baby. I had…

— Greg Davies

These teenager looks aren't going to last forever, and that there are much better foundation to build a life upon than how…

— David Levithan

“It isn't the numbers that matter. It's each and every teenager we are entrusted with to help them grow into disciples of…

— Marcey Balcomb

I have never been a Conservative, or at least not since being a young teenager. My father voted Conservative, and even his…

— Phil Collins

My parents took me to the Bronte parsonage in England when I was a teenager. I had a fight with my mum,…

— Eleanor Catton

As a teenager I just wanted to fit in, just to be one of the boys. It was tough. I went to…

— Ronnie Shakes

When I'm doing stand-up, it's just me depending on me. I know how to go out there and make people laugh. I've…

— Eddie Murphy

My father was my first inspiration. He had an incredible stereo and a turntable, and I was told not to touch it.…

— Grandmaster Flash

We are like a rider on top of a gigantic elephant. We can steer the elephant, and if he's not busy, he'll…

— Jonathan Haidt

“So it was a crossroads summer, when the universe seemed to stand perilously still like an egg wobbling on a precipice, a…

— Sol Luckman

“A teenager’s nature is not laziness, their preferred state is not ignorance, and it is not necessary for extrinsic motivation to be…

— Brian Huskie

When I was a teenager, my father went bust. He could have declared himself bankrupt, but he was an honourable man and…

— Jo Nesbo

When one teenager dying of cystic fibrosis asked me, 'Why am I different?' I answered, 'Tony, because it makes you beautiful.' He…

— Bernie Siegel

Back in my days as a children's book editor, my superiors caught on to the fact that teenagers were using the Internet…

— Cecily von Ziegesar

In certain ways, I'm not very different than I was when I was a teenager.

— Barry Commoner

To a teenager, it cannot be true love if her family approves of him.

— Evan Esar

I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It's very character-building.

— Steve Jobs

Where did I get the nerve to think I could handle American teenagers? Ignorance. That's where I got the nerve.

— Frank McCourt

Life was so much easier when I could blame every bad decision on being a teenager.

— Anonymous

I have been advocating in favor of free markets and against socialism since I was a teenager.

— Charlie Kirk

I was such a lazy teenager: I didn't read or play the piano beyond the bare minimum.

— Stephen Hough

I was so very interested in literature and so relatively uninterested in the movies when I was a teenager.

— Matthew Specktor

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

The average Ph.D. Thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.

— J. Frank Dobie

I don't think you understand what a job really is when you're a teenager.

— Tiffani Thiessen

Before I was a comedian, I thought the coolest thing that would happen to me was being a teenager... Boy, was I…

— Chris Rock

I just don't want to copy the current trends or do movies for teenagers. I want people to get more out of…

— Clint Eastwood

When you're lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.

— Erma Bombeck

I'd had my daughter when I was a teenager - I took my daughter to college with me.

— Loni Anderson

I didn't have an incredibly active social life as a teenager. I always wished it was a little bit more exciting than…

— Olivia Thirlby