“ A white boy that makes C's in college can make it to the White House. ”
- Chris Rock- Copy
- 2.7K
“ People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall. ”
- Leonardo DiCaprio- Copy
- 1.9K
“ We could swallow it among these teenagers in the midst of all their angst. We're not used to seeing that with male characters. It's kind of jarring because it almost makes you squirm. ”
- Robert Thompson- Copy
- 3.8K
“ A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they've seen everything. ”
- Ben Folds- Copy
- 689
“ In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right. ”
- Jack Nicholson- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young. ”
- Augustus- Copy
- 1.6K
“ An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me. ”
- Andrew Greeley- Copy
- 896
“ It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. ”
- Maya Angelou- Copy
- 596
“ Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young. ”
- Caesar Augustus- Copy
- 3.3K
“ It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again. ”
- Charles F. Kettering- Copy
- 2.7K
“ It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again. ”
- Charles Kettering- Copy
- 3.2K
“ To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent. ”
- Dave Barry- Copy
- 490
“ When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there. ”
- Jim Henson- Copy
- 648
“ Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. ”
- Arnold Bennett- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath. ”
- Arnold H. Glasow- Copy
- 466
“ Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you. ”
- Fran Lebowitz- Copy
- 1.7K
“ If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near fourty. ”
- Chris Rock- Copy
- 3.1K
“ I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace. ”
- Henry James- Copy
- 601
“ How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend! ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself. ”
- John MacNaughton- Copy
- 402
“ You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. ”
- John Ciardi- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind. ”
- George Allen- Copy
- 800
“ Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen, even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. ”
- Leonardo da Vinci- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old. ”
- Frank Lloyd Wright- Copy
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