Best Teenager Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 12

“I think I was always an old soul, even as a teenager.”

“There was a genocide unfolding against Bosnian Muslims and we, in the United Kingdom, were incredibly angered - a teenager at the time, 15 years old, so my young teenage mind processed that in a way typical to the very passionate and angry and black-and-white way that teenagers often can do.”

Way Years Mind Young Black Can Do White United Angry Passionate Kingdoms Teenager Genocide Black And White Typical Teenage Unfolding United Kingdom Often Can Bosnians

Author:Maajid Nawaz

“I think it's harder for each generation. Even I just feel completely separate from teenagers today who have access to the Internet. And I'm amazed that this interest in video games has never gone away. It just keeps growing.”

Thinking Feels Today Games Interest Gone Growing Generations Internet Harder Access Video Teenager Amazed Gone Away

Author:Adrian Tomine

“When I talk to people who have teenagers now, their rooms are filled with screens. There are their phones and their DVD players and TVs and all these things to produce distractions for them, and I think it would be hard to find the time to create something. I think that's really changing something about adolescence.”

People Thinking Hard Would Be Rooms Player Produce Tvs Filled Phones Screens Teenager Distraction Adolescence Dvds

Author:Adrian Tomine

“My brother is severely autistic, so when I was a kid I spent a lot of time as a teenager in camps and programs for autistic kids. When I went to McGill as an undergraduate, I figured I'd be a therapist working with these kids. The truth is, and I knew this even back then, I'm just not good at this. I'm too empathic to do this sort of thing.”

Kids Brother Truth Is Program Teenager My Brother Camps Therapists Autistic Undergraduate

Author:Paul Bloom

“I was the last one of nine kids - eight girls and me last - and my sisters were going out. They were teenagers. And as they were getting ready, I would sit on the bathtub and watch them put on makeup and transform themselves - you know, putting on clothes and giggling about the boys they were going to meet and everything. So for me, that was an amazing thing - the fact of transforming themselves.”

Knows Facts Kids Lasts Girl Boys Watches Ready Clothes Eight Nine Teenager Makeup My Sister Going Out Transforming Amazing Things Bathtubs

Author:Riccardo Tisci

“I was a violent, self-destructive teenager, who was adopted right at the end of World War II. I was lied to and abused by my parents. I hated life in Utah. I resented the Mormon Church, its sense of superiority and its certitude. I escaped through the Beat writers and discovered poetry and have devoted my entire life to the practice of poetry in varying ways. Poetry gave me a reason for being. And I'm not exaggerating when I say that.”

“As a teenager, you have so much energy and hormones and you feel powerless in your life.”

Feels Energy Teenager Powerless Hormones

Author:Patricia Arquette

“Why would twenty-six-year-old "teenagers" care about political ramifications if their backs are not up against the wall? But if their backs are against the wall they may be plucked to fight in Iraq, and all of sudden they become politicized real quick.”

Ifs Years May Real Care Political Fighting Wall Six Twenties Iraq Teenager Six Year Olds Ramifications

Author:Chuck D

“As a late teenager, the punk movement pushed me further. In particular, the Clash, which happened to leak through the time of disco, showed me that there was this cross-cultural sound that could cut across genres and audiences. Like punk was to disco, rap music was a rebellion against R&B, which had adopted disco and made it worse.”

Made Sound Audience Cutting Happened Movement Particular Late Crosses Rap Made It Teenager Genre Rebellion Punk Adopted Clash Leaks Disco Rap Music

Author:Chuck D

“I was in the process of growing dreads, they were down to my lip. I could whip them back and forth. Then I just thought to myself, "Is this really me? Can I really do this?" So I washed them out and went to the barber shop. I told them to give me a mohawk. But then there was this teenager also getting one. I couldn't do that.”

Giving Process Growing Give Me Lips Teenager Shops Dread Back And Forth Whips Barbers Mohawks Barber Shop

Author:Nate Burleson

“Teenagers expressing this on a daily basis in the middle of the streets - you can't help but believe we are in the mind state of taking our losses and changing people's perceptions of us and our community. We are strong. Our families are tired of being hurt.”

People Mind Believe States Helping Strong Community Hurt Loss Streets Middle Perception Bases Tired Teenager Our Family Our Community Being Hurt

Author:Kendrick Lamar

“People also don't understand how young the Panthers were - basically teenagers. And that they were over 50 percent women.”

People Young Percent Teenager Panthers Over 50

Author:Stanley Nelson Jr.

“My kids will be needing me a lot when they hit their teens. If I know anything about being a teenager. I need to be braced to be spending a lot of time with all six of them and making sure I can be there for when they go through everything.”

Ifs Knows Needs I Can Kids Six Spending Teenager Teens Being A Teenager

Author:Angelina Jolie

“Everything's a 360 and that's what's so funny about life now, and they're right at that age and I have teenagers now, and I'm like 'Wow I remember when I did that.' Aint nothing new.”

Age Remember Teenager Wow Remember When Nothing New

Author:Ginuwine

“I'd like to see a world where, if a teenager fears she's seeing/hearing things, she feels as comfortable seeking help as she would if she found a lump on her leg.”

Ifs World Feels Helping Found Seeing Comfortable Seeking Legs Hearing Teenager Lumps Seeking Help Hearing Things

Author:Kelley Armstrong

“What's great is we actually have friends who belong or have previously belonged to the Amish community, so we got first hand stories and I was able to talk with them about visitors and visiting the Amish country. It was very enlightening to think this is very much going on as we speak. What was really interesting was that the upcoming Amish generation is actually closer to average American teenager in their use of the English language because of the use of technology.”

“To me everyone goes through that at some point in adolescence, you know. There's - you meet someone when you're a young teenager, and they're never right for you, and you always wind up hurting someone on the way to figuring out all this stuff. But it was a fun writing process.”

Knows Way Writing Young Fun Stuff Process Hurt Wind Teenager Adolescence Writing Process Hurting Someone

Author:Don Hertzfeldt

“I used to worry when I was a teenager, even into my twenties, after I'd heard something about schizophrenia and how people just suddenly become schizophrenic that I was insane.”

People Used Worry Heard Twenties Insane Teenager Schizophrenia Schizophrenic

Author:Brad Warner

“It's the same thing: I would think, "If I can't go out and pull some teenager tonight, maybe I'm no good on stage anymore." And you start to think that you even need it as a motivation. I did, anyway.”

Ifs Thinking Needs I Can Motivation Stage Teenager Tonight

Author:Iggy Pop

“I would say I was a philosophical boy. Thoughts about 'identical stones' are the earliest philosophical thoughts I remember. But when I was a teenager I also thought about the more typical philosophical problems teenagers think about: the existence of god, the objectivity of morality, whether one can know that the external world exists.”

Thinking Knows World Problem Remember Existence Boys Morality Stones Philosophical Teenager Typical Identical Objectivity Existence Of God

Author:Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

“The teenager begins to realize he or she really does want to be part of a community, really does want to have good relationships with others, really does want to create something truly good with his or her life. The teenager comes to understand just being smart and just being privileged are not enough.”

Want Doe Enough Realizing Community Smart Teenager Just Being Privileged Being Smart Good Relationship Relationships With Others

Author:Marianne Williamson

“When I was a teenager, I learned that in order to play guitar like Johnny Ramone, it takes a huge amount of physical effort.”

Play Order Effort Huge Amount Guitar Teenager Ramones

Author:Kevin Shields

“Music was my friend when I was a teenager, and I would inhabit and take comfort in lyrics. That's how I want to write.”

Want Writing Comfort My Friends Teenager

Author:Yannis Philippakis

“When you're making an album with people who made your favorite records as a rebellious teenager, it feels like you've achieved something.”

People Feels Made Records Like You Albums Teenager Rebellious Your Favorite Rebellious Teenagers

Author:Yannis Philippakis

“I went to school for a short period of time to study fashion. I wanted to become a stylist or a designer. I made clothes when I was a teenager that I used to sell online. My label name was "Baby Jesus" - so incredibly stupid, but whatever, I was 17!”

Made Wanted School Used Jesus Names Study Fashion Stupid Baby Periods Clothes Sells Labels Teenager Designer Online Stylist Baby Jesus

Author:Bethany Cosentino

“As a teenager and a young adult, I never felt like my own story was interesting enough to tell, so I always wrote lyrics from someone else's perspective - told someone else's story.”

Enough Stories Young Felt My Own Interesting Perspective Adults Young Adult Teenager

Author:Zach Condon

“The lo-fi scene and the riot grrrl thing had a huge influence on me. As a teenager I went to see Bikini Kill and all those bands.”

Influence Huge Scene Band Teenager Riot Bikinis

Author:Kieran Hebden

“I was really into hip-hop as a teenager. I dressed up like Tupac with baggy jeans and a dodgy bandanna around my head. I was pretty confused at that time.”

Hip Hop Hips Teenager Confused Hops Jeans Dressed Up

Author:Gold Panda

“You know, I think that we are going to be OK. Look, Malia is 10, so three years from now she is 13. Who knows what happens to teenagers?”

Thinking Knows Years Looks Happens Three Teenager Three Years

Author:Barack Obama

“I think listening to a lot of Lou Reed when I was a teenager is what encouraged me to just sing however felt good to me.”

Thinking Felt Listening Teenager Reeds

Author:John Darnielle

“I think that as a teenager in England, it's very hard to avoid Europe. You see Barcelona, and you see all those places as a youngster. You go there on school trips and everything, but America is like a different planet.”

Thinking Different Hard School America Planets Europe England Teenager Youngsters Barcelona

Author:Simon Taylor-Davis

“I was into hip-hop when I was a teenager. Then I started to look for samples, and I started a long Hendrix period - I liked the drums and the beats.”

Looks Long Periods Beats Hip Hop Hips Teenager Hops Sample Hendrix

Author:Gustav Ejstes

“Now circadian rhythms become very interesting and problematic for patients because when you become a teenager, your rhythms actually tend to naturally shift.”

Interesting Patient Rhythm Teenager Very Interesting Circadian Rhythm

Author:Shelby Harris

“I grew up in the '80s and John Hughes was the filmmaker making serious movies for teenagers.”

Serious Grew Grew Up Teenager Filmmaker 80s

Author:Nicolas Winding Refn

“I'd studied piano first and switched over to cello when I was about seven. I played mostly chamber and solo classical music. I got really involved with rock music when I was a teenager. I wired up my cello.”

Firsts Rocks Involved Seven Teenager Piano Solo Chamber Classical Music Rock Music

Author:Tod Machover

“I listen to a lot of music that teenagers are listening to because I'm around them.”

Listening Teenager

Author:Tod Machover

“I think the seed was planted when I was a teenager, and it took me until I got out of Juilliard. At Juilliard I was just learning to be a composer, but I was also learning how to manipulate computers.”

Thinking Computer Seeds Teenager Composer Manipulate Juilliard

Author:Tod Machover

“When I was a teenager, I dreamed of being an opera singer like Maria Callas or a jazz singer like June Christy or Chris Connor, or approaching songs with the kind of mystical lethargy of Billie Holiday, or championing the downtrodden like Lotte Lenya. But I never dreamed of singing in a rock-and-roll band.”

Kind Song Rocks Band Singing Jazz Singers Teenager Holiday Opera Rock And Roll Mystical June Lethargy Downtrodden Opera Singers Callas

Author:Patti Smith

“By the time I was a teenager, there wasn't a show I hadn't inhaled or a character I hadn't met.”

Character Shows Mets Teenager

Author:Joe Zee

“Kanye West talks about being Axl Rose, being Kurt Cobain, being Jim Morrison. Adam Levine is selling acne ointment to teenagers.”

Rose West Selling Teenager Adam Cobain Acne

Author:Ian Astbury

“The historical side of fashion was very attractive to me when I was a teenager in Moscow, working for the costume departments in various Russian theater companies.”

Sides Company Fashion Theater Historical Various Teenager Attractive Department Costumes Moscow

Author:Alexander Vassiliev

“A university is a college with a stadium seating over 40,000.”

Inspirational College University Teenager Stadiums Off To College

Author:Leonard Louis Levinson

“In acting, you have a writer, a director, a character - you're working through being another person - and the irony I always tell people is when I acted early on as a teenager, it actually kept me out of trouble.”

People Persons Character Acting Trouble Directors Teenager Irony

Author:Juliette Lewis

“I kept a diary as a teenager but I never would have shared it with anyone. Still, I think it's very good practice to write things down.”

Thinking Writing Stills Practice Very Good Teenager Diaries

Author:Judy Blume

“A huge part of the American trans population that's often overlooked are trans teenagers. Many of them are homeless, and those are not the people who are necessarily going in for a custom suit. But that's one of the reasons why we were excited that we got to do a contest with HBO to sponsor a young person getting a suit made who might not have the means to do it on their own.”

People Mean Persons Made Reason Might Young Huge Population Excited Suits Teenager Reason Why Customs Homeless Contests Trans Overlooked Sponsors Hbo

Author:Lena Dunham

“I went out and got little jobs. I was selling candy as a teenager, selling newspapers. But as I got older, I didn't want to sell that anymore. I wanted to make more money.”

Want Littles Wanted Jobs Sells Newspapers Selling Teenager More Money Candy

Author:Snoop Dogg

“As a teenager I was very clear that I wasn't in the church just to toe the line, but I saw there was a capacity within Christianity and the bible not to fall into line but to question the status quo, that's what kept me in the church. I was listening to the sort of music that did that questioning.”

Fall Church Lines Christianity Clear Saws Listening Capacity Teenager Questioning Toes Status Quo

Author:Alan Green

“Nowadays, teenagers are so fast and quick to see through any form of manipulation. Sitting down and just thinking of something is like watching really bad pornography.”

Thinking Form Sitting Down And Teenager Manipulation Pornography Sitting Down

Author:Nicolas Winding Refn

“You hope you're saying the right things - but also, as a kid becomes a teenager, you feel like there's a ticking clock for you to tell them everything they need to know.”

Knows Needs Feels Kids Teenager Clock Right Thing

Author:Reese Witherspoon

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