“Back in my days as a children's book editor, my superiors caught on to the fact that teenagers were using the Internet to gossip about each other, and thought it might be nifty to develop a series of books about an anonymous high-school blogger who gossips about her classmates. The concept was passed on to me.” ChildrenBookFactsMightSchoolInternetHigh SchoolConceptsSeriesCaughtSuperiorsTeenagerGossipEditorsChildren's BooksBloggersClassmates Author:Cecily von Ziegesar
“When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.” SchoolActivityTheaterTeenagerSettlingExtracurricular Activities Author:Morgan Freeman
“Teenagers talk about the idea of having each other's 'full attention.' They grew up in a culture of distraction. They remember their parents were on cell phones when they were pushed on swings as toddlers. Now, their parents text at the dinner table and don't look up from their BlackBerry when they come for end-of-school day pickup.” LooksIdeasEndsSchoolRememberCultureParentAttentionGrewGrew UpTablesPhonesDinnerCellsTeenagerLook UpDistractionSwingsCell PhoneToddlerDinner TableBlackberriesPickupsSchool Days Author:Sherry Turkle
“It's often been said, "Violence never solved anything." The simple truth is that when you are slammed up against the wall and the knife is at your throat, when a circle of teenagers is kicking you as you curl into a ball on the sidewalk, or when the man walks into your office building or school with a pair of guns and starts shooting, only violence, or the reasonable threat of violence, is going to save your life. In the extreme moment, only force can stop force.” MenSaidMomentsSchoolForceSimpleWalksViolenceBuildingHe ManWallTruth IsOfficeGunBallsThreatExtremesCirclesTeenagerShootingReasonablePairsThroatKnivesGun ControlKickingCurlsSidewalkSimple TruthsOffice Buildings Author:Rory Miller
“I was a misfit, but I think most teenagers feel that way. I don't care if you were a popular jock or the kid who spent his lunch hours in a stairwell reading a book, we all seem to have dealt with insecurities of one kind or another throughout our high school years.” IfsThinkingWayFeelsYearsKindBookSeemsCareKidsSchoolReadingHoursHigh SchoolDon't CareTeenagerI Don't CareInsecurityLunchMisfitsJocksSchool Years Author:Charles de Lint
“College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage.” InspirationalSchoolCollegeHigh SchoolWarmTeenagerOff To CollegeCollege Freshmen Author:George Gobel
“I entered high school she[ my mother] said, "Well, you're a teenager now, and comics are for kids, so you shouldn't read them anymore," and I went, "Oh, okay," and I gave away what, of course, would now be thousands of dollars worth of comics to the neighborhood kids.” WellsSaidKidsSchoolMotherCoursesHigh SchoolOkayDollarsTeenagerNeighborhood Author:Trina Robbins
“I played golf competitively as a teenager. I actually took a year off after high school and just played golf and went to a university in France for maybe a month and dropped out.” YearsSchoolMonthsHigh SchoolGolfUniversityFranceTeenagerAfter High School Author:Stephanie Szostak
“I was like most teenagers. I wanted to look more conventional - you know, to just be the pretty girl in school.” KnowsLooksWantedSchoolGirlTeenagerConventionalPretty Girl Author:Lily Cole
“As a teenager I was crazy about David Bowie. He was a huge inspiration for me. I dressed a little bit crazily in school and dyed my hair every colour under the sun.” LittlesInspirationSchoolBitsSunCrazyHugeHairLittle BitTeenagerColourBowie Author:Clive Owen
“There is an inherent tolerance and kindness in the state school teenagers I know.” KnowsStatesSchoolKindnessToleranceTeenagerInherent Author:Arabella Weir
“As a teenager, I was always this strange mixture of kind of vice-captain of the rugby team and sensitive artist type the rest of the time. I was sent away to this public school in the middle of nowhere, and I think we managed to completely miss out on normal youth culture.” ThinkingKindSchoolArtistCultureTeamMiddleMissingYouthStrangeTypeNormalVicesTeenagerSensitiveCaptainsMixturesPublic SchoolRugbyYouth CultureMiddle Of Nowhere Author:Mark Haddon