Teenage Life Quotes

Everything about my teenage life was almost ideal.

In the time it takes you to understand a 14-year-old, he turns 15.

Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

Anybody who has a problem with 'Skins' obviously doesn't understand teenage life.

Teenage life - possibly adult life too is all about what you want and can’t have. And then about what you receive and misuse.

You're not a little kid anymore. You need to make friends, get out of the house, and live your life.

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.

I have something that makes me happy on some level and this is a good way for me to deal with the torment of that teenage life gave me

Me: "If you want me to be a teenager, don't send me to Support Group. Buy me a fake ID so I can go to clubs, drink vodka, and take pot." Mom: "You don't take pot, for starters." Me: "See, that's the kind of thing I'd know if you got me a fake ID.

I don't know what better teenage life you could get than going around the world doing what you love to do.

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

I was desperate for something to read that dealt realistically with teenage life, and I thought others might be, too.

You know I got kicked out of high school and I used to go to Hendrix concerts. I used to go see Marvin Gaye and B.B. King and so here I am on television as an actor playing the part of this really sweet wholesome all American boy. The reality was I had a much different kind of teenage life.

I was very much a mess, as a person. I'd come from a very turbulent teenage life, with parents who had broken up in a very bad way, and a lot of illness at school.

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.

McDonald's offers a king's ransom to any hip-hop artist who is able to put Big Mac into a song. MTV - and more to the point, Viacom - is succeeding in extending a teenage life to twenty-nine or even thirty-one years old. It is about extending this market and removing any intelligent substance in the music.

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.

I'm very interested in the way the Internet has changed teenage life. Obviously it's very different from when I grew up, when there weren't even answering machines, much less computers. I was telling my children this the other day, and the little one said, "Did you have electricity, Mom?" and I was like okay, enough, kid.

We are greater than the sum of our parts.

But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail

We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations.

We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.

The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we've all gone through that period. It's not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynamic.

When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

How strange that the young should always think the world is against them - when in fact that is the only time it is for them.

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.

Teenagers complain there's nothing to do, then stay out all night doing it.

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.

Being a teenager and figuring out who you are is hard enough without someone attacking you.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

I always wanted to experience the street life because my teenage life in Aberdeen was so boring. But I was never really independent enough to do it. I applied for food stamps, lived under the bridge, and built a fort at the cedar mill.