Quotes of Teenager - somelinesforyou

“ Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves. ”

- J. B. Priestley

“ Yes, of course we were pretentious — what else is youth for? ”

- Julian Barnes

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

- Doug Larson

“ One of the most powerful tools for empowering individuals and communities is making certain that any individual who wants to receive a quality education can do so. ”

- Christine Gregoire

“ I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence. ”

- Robert Cormier

“ The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen. ”

- Ray Bradbury

“ When teenagers aren't turning like weathervanes in a high wind, they're as stiff as Puritans. ”

- Stephen King

“ I was miserable, of course, for I was seventeen. ”

- Matthew

“ A teenager is someone who is well prepared for a zombie attack but not ready for tomorrow's math test. ”

- Unknown

“ I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China. ”

- Rob Lowe

“ Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other. ”

- Laurence J. Peter

“ The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don't have to pay taxes - naturally, no one wants to live any other way. ”

- Judith Martin

“ Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you. ”

- Fran Lebowitz

“ 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

“ 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

“ It's tough raising teenagers in inner-city New Orleans. ”

- Robert Miller

“ They think just because there's teenagers here, they're always cursing and swearing. ”

- Robbie Robertson

“ Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means. ”

- D.H. Lawrence

“ We do not understand these Americans who, like adolescents, always speak of sex, and who, like adolescents, all of a sudden have discovered that sex is good not only for procreating children. ”

- Oriana Fallaci

“ Teenagers travel in droves, packs, swarms… To the librarian, they're a gaggle of geese. To the cook, they're a scourge of locusts. To department stores, they're a big beautiful exaltation of larks … all lovely and loose and jingly. ”

- Bernice Fitz Gibbon

“ Whenever I felt like slitting my wrists I used to like listening to depressed singers from the 1970s. It was great music for a misunderstood teenager. And when I'm feeling misunderstood these days, I'll stick on a bit of Leonard Cohen. ”

- Diane Abbott

“ 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 ambitions too. ”

- Johnny Depp

“ I was never a teenager. I became a teenager in Christ the King and I never grew out of it. More seriously… as I'm always serious as you know, there weren't teenagers in the late 1930s and early 1940s. There were adolescents. But by the time I was ordained and was dumped into Beverly, there were teenagers. ”

- Andrew Greeley

“ I never considered myself part of rock 'n' roll. My stuff was more adult. It was more difficult for teenagers to relate to; my stuff was filled with more despair than anything you'd associate with rock 'n' roll. Since I couldn't see people dancing, I didn't write jitterbugs or twists… ”

- Ray Charles

“ Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. ”

- Erma Bombeck

“ To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent. ”

- Dave Barry

“ Youth has become a class. ”

- Roger Vadim

“ 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

“ Adolescence is just one big walking pimple. ”

- Carol Burnett

“ As I've said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager. ”

- Joe Bob Briggs
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