Best Teenager Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 24

“I started writing because there's an absence of things I was familiar with or that I dreamed about. One of my senses of anger is related to this vacancy - a yearning I had as a teenager. . .and when I get ready to write, I think I'm trying to fill that. . .”

Thinking Writing Trying Ready Absence Senses Familiar Teenager Related Yearning Vacancy

Author:Ntozake Shange

“As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar.”

Painting Guitar Teenager Playing Guitar

Author:Buffy Sainte-Marie

“I think what teenagers lack is the belief that they can be unique and extraordinary in life. Make the most of your age because you're not going to be a teenager forever!”

Thinking Age Belief Forever Unique Entrepreneur Extraordinary Teenager

Author:Sabirul Islam

“By the time I was a teenager, I knew I wanted to be an artist. I was a born draftsman and liked all forms of art, so I just knew that's what I wanted to do.”

Art Wanted Form Artist Born Teenager Draftsman

Author:Frank Frazetta

“As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together”

Might Together Young Identity Excuse Teenager Excuse Me

Author:Edmund White

“Having grown up in Oklahoma when it was one of the last states which prohibited liquor, I grew up with War On Drugs, where every teenager knew who the bootleggers were”

War States Lasts Grew Drug Grew Up Teenager Liquor War On Drugs Oklahoma

Author:Tony Hillerman

“My first published novel was written for teenagers, and there were rules laid down by the publisher: no sex, no smoking, no swearing. I blew up entire solar systems, I consigned billions of people to horrible death; they didn't seem to mind that at all. But no hanky-panky.”

People Mind Firsts Seems Sex Novel Written Billions Horrible Teenager Smoking Publishers Solar System Swearing No Smoking

Author:Ben Bova

“It was a complete dream to work with David LaChapelle. I collected his books as a teenager, and I fantasised that he would direct the video for 'Spectrum' from the moment the song was written. I still can't believe it actually happened, and I'm completely overjoyed that he felt such a connection with the song.”

Believe Stills Book Moments Dream Song Felt Written Happened Direct Connections Video Teenager Cant Spectrum Overjoyed

Author:Florence Welch

“I would sell 2 million records, a million went to teenagers and a million went to the adults. So, when The Beatles became so popular, I lost a million to the teenagers, but I was still selling a million to the adults.”

Stills Lost Millions Records Adults Sells Selling Teenager

Author:Bobby Vinton

“My boyfriend dumped me. My best friend won't talk to me. My future is in a garbage can. Everything has turned to crap. Can you please just let me be a sullen teenager. just this once”

Please Let Me Teenager Crap My Best Friend Garbage My Future Talk To Me My Boyfriend Dumped Sullen Garbage Cans

Book:This Girl Is Different

Source: This Girl Is Different

“I think the Russian government is right to be concerned with propaganda on teenagers who are at the age of struggling through sexual identity issue and we should help to channel these urges in productive behavior. Heterosexuality is God’s design. Policies that encourage young people to think this are good ideas.”

“Femininity in general is seen as frivolous. People often say feminine people are doing “the most”, meaning that to don a dress, heels, lipstick, and big hair is artifice, fake, and a distraction. But I knew even as a teenager that my femininity was more than just adornments; they were extensions of me, enabling me to express myself and my identity. My body, my clothes, and my makeup are on purpose, just as I am on purpose.”

Source: Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More

“I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time - the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement. I worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign for president as a teenager in California and the night he was killed.”

War Dream Age Night Literature President Rights Movement Campaigns Civil Rights Teenager California Anti War Civil Rights Movement Hopes And Dreams Civil Right Movement Anti War Movement Bobby Kennedy

Author:David Talbot

“When I was a teenager, my self esteem was really low. But when I stood next to Yunho and his crooked teeth, I felt better.”

Self Next Felt Self Esteem Lows Teeth Esteem Teenager Crooked Crooked Teeth

Author:Jaejoong

“I just did in my early twenties what most did when they were teenagers, being free and exploring and making mistakes, but I did it in France. I did it privately.”

Mistake Twenties France Teenager Making Mistakes Exploring Being Free

Author:Molly Ringwald

“It's important for celebrities, environmentalists and world leaders to continue to increase education and eco-awareness through the forums provided to them naturally by virtue of being famous. Take inspiration from these words of wisdom from a Nazi-era teenager and concentration camp victim: "how wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."”

“Many nations are like rebellious teenagers who try to figure out just how many times they can kick us in the teeth while still taking our money.”

Trying Stills Nations Money Figures Teeth Teenager Kicks Rebellious Rebellious Teenagers

Author:Paul Weyrich

“I got involved in improv comedy. It settled me down when I was getting wild. I was sort of an evil teenager smashing up my cars and drinking and driving, let's just say, a lot.”

Evil Comedy Car Involved Drinking Driving Teenager Smashing Drinking And Driving Improv Comedy

Author:Bruce McCulloch

“I drank a lot when I was a teenager and I don't drink any more, because that's when I thought, you know, I'm gonna end up a car wreck.”

Knows Ends Car Drink Teenager Drank Wrecks Car Wreck

Author:Kristin Davis

“Classical music only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music when I was a teenager or even as a child.”

Children Wish Church Heard Teenager Classical Music Church Music

Author:Ian Anderson

“I had no style when I was 17! I look at teenagers now and say, 'I wish I'd looked like them when I was that age.' I had no style whatsoever, but style also wasn't as prominent as it is today. I was just very laid back, usually wearing jeans and tank tops and flip flops.”

Looks Age Today Wish Style Teenager Jeans Tanks Flip Prominent Laid Back Flip Flops Tank Tops

Author:Candace Cameron

“I started as a teenager going up on commercials.”

Teenager

Author:Fran Drescher

“I see myself as the world's oldest living teenager... I try to get as much kick out of things as possible.”

World Trying Teenager Kicks

Author:Iris Apfel

“John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.”

Firsts Film Teenager Composer Soundtracks Film Composers

Author:Carter Burwell

“When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk music. I've always preferred acoustic music. And it was only, I suppose, by the time Jethro Tull was getting underway that we did let the music begin to have a harder edge, in particular with the electric guitar being alongside the flute.”

Rocks Particular Harder Jazz Guitar Folks Edges Teenager Loud Electric Rock Music Acoustics Folk Music Flutes Electric Guitar Jazz And Blues Acoustic Music

Author:Ian Anderson

“When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly.”

Country Video Teenager Mexico

Author:Guillermo del Toro

“A large family and Democrats have a lot in common: teenagers and Democrats are always happy spending other people's money.”

People Common Democrat Spending Teenager Always Happy Large Family Spending Other People's Money

Author:Anne Northup

“Feelings change fast when you're a teenager.”

Feelings Teenager Feelings Change

Book:What We Saw at Night

Source: What We Saw at Night

“The best time to have a baby is when you're a black teenager.”

World Humor Funny America Black Modern Baby Teenager Modern World Best Times

Author:Sarah Silverman

“Drugs are in every walk of life - doctors, lawyers, preachers, the guy who works for IBM, teenagers on the street, teenagers in school.”

School Guy Walks Streets Drug Doctors Lawyer Teenager Preacher Walks Of Life School Life Ibm

Author:Smokey Robinson

“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 ambition, too.”

Inspirational Guy Talent Type Ambition Convinced Teenager Teens Insecure My Ambition Type Of Guy Being A Teenager

Author:Johnny Depp

“A high-school girl, seated next to a famous astronomer at a dinner party, struck up a conversation with him by asking: "What do you do for a living?" "I study astronomy," he replied. "Really? said the teenager, wide-eyed. "I finished astronomy last year."”

Life Years Said School Lasts Girl Next Party Study Conversation High School Asking Dinner Wide Finished Astronomy Teenager Last Year Astronomers Dinner Party School Girl

Author:James Keller

“I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's.”

Inspirational Two Term Football College Teenager Nfl American Football Legendary Iowa College Football Truman Funny American Football Nfl Players Texas Football

Author:Alex Karras

“As a teenager and even still now being 21, it's always love questions - it's always so confusing.”

Stills Teenager Confusing

Author:Ashlee Simpson

“People say 'teenage girls aren't so clever. Your characters should be less articulate to reflect our youth.' People who say that aren't spending time with teenagers.”

People Should Character Girl Youth Spending Clever Teenager Teenage Spending Time Teenage Girl

Author:Diablo Cody

“You know what's the worst? Being a 16 year old girl who loves a famous Singer, not solely for his looks, but because you truly believe he is talented and devoted and you agree deeply with his message. Because no matter how intelligently and fully you can express that, people will assume you're just a silly teenager who thinks a famous guy is cute.”

People Thinking Knows Years Believe Looks Matter Guy Girl Worst Messages Agree Assuming Singers Silly Teenager Cute Devoted Famous Singer

Author:Anthony Kiedis

“It's very witty and it's great to see teenage characters have control that way. And you can actually hear about sex and pot and it's okay, it's not completely bad and you can't say that to teenagers.”

Way Character Sex Okay Witty Teenager Pot Teenage Very Witty

Author:Caroline Dhavernas

“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.”

Kind Enough Joy Sorrow Various Teenager Mature Teenage Teenage Girl

Author:Andrew Greeley

“There have been times I almost got a persecution complex. I felt like people wouldn't let me grow up. They always saw me as a smiling kid or goofy teenager, no matter how much I'd changed.”

People Has Beens Matter Kids Grows Felt Growing Up Saws Changed Let Me Complexes Smile Teenager Persecution Goofy

Author:Ricky Schroder

“I have more zits now than I did as a teenager. Stress zits.”

Stress Teenager Zits

Author:Tiffani Thiessen

“Youth is, after all, just a moment, but it is the moment, the spark that you always carry in your heart.”

Inspirational Heart Moments Youth Teenager Sparks Teens Teenage

Author:Raisa Gorbacheva

“When I was a child and teenager I read whenever I had the opportunity, but since then I've found it hard to read as much as I'd like, children, work, and pets all providing powerful incentives to escape into a book and a practical reason why I rarely do so.”

Children Book Hard Reason Found Opportunity Powerful Practicals Teenager Reason Why Pet Providing Incentives

Author:Louise Brown

“You know, my father died of cancer when I was a teenager. He had it before it became popular.”

Knows Science Father Died Cancer Teenager Father Died My Father Died

Author:Goodman Ace

“I met Rodney when I first moved to LA, so I'd say 20 years. He's the eternal teenager.”

Years Firsts Mets Eternal Moved Teenager Valentine Valentine's Day

Author:Kathy Valentine

“Barely a teenager, Elizabeth Taylor was already more beautiful and voluptuous than Miss America. When she arrived at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel for our magazine shoot, I was bowled over. I couldn't believe she was only fourteen. She filled out a swimsuit better than I did. We did the pictures, including one shot of me teaching her to float. With that superstructure of hers, she floated just fine. What she couldn't do was sink.”

Believe America Beautiful Teaching Missing Fine Shots Filled Including Magazines Teenager Hotel Floats Fourteen Voluptuous Swimsuits Miss America Filled Out

Author:Esther Williams

“If kids and teenagers can get into a band, its probably not because they think its brainy.”

Ifs Thinking Kids Band Teenager

Author:Ezra Koenig

“Youth is the trustee of prosperity.”

Inspirational Time Youth Prosperity Teenager Teens Teenage Trustees

Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“When I was a teenager, I got into four track recorders, drum machines, and synthesizers, and I started producing instrumental music.”

Four Machines Track Teenager Recorders Synthesizers Instrumental Music

Author:Duncan Sheik

“When I was a teenager I would lock myself in the bathroom for hours, bouffanting my hair like Patty Duke and trying to recreate Barbra Streisand's flawless eyeliner, only to comb it all out and wash it all off before stepping out into the world a butchish bisexual teen.”

World Trying Hours Hair Teenager Locks Bathroom Dukes Bisexual Flawless Combs Eyeliner Streisand

Author:Beth Ditto

“Galois read the geometry from cover to cover as easily as other boys read a pirate yarn.”

Young Science Boys Teenager Geometry Pirate Yarn

Author:Eric Temple Bell

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