Teen Quotes

I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.

During my participation in the Manhattan Project and subsequent research at Los Alamos, encompassing a period of fifteen years, I worked in the company of perhaps the greatest collection of scientific talent the world has ever known.

I remember the first time I saw the 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' video. I will never forget that day. I just wanted to see Kurt Cobain's face. I had a feeling he was very cute. But, I couldn't see his face. When I finally did see him, he was even cuter than I imagined!

My parents still treat Christmas like I'm thirteen years old.

Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

I see it as more of a teenage activity than, you know, she's only 11, but you know, I think it's great that she knows so many girls who want to play music. And I see it more as a teen activity than I do as going into music.

Being a teen idol is what I've waited for my whole life.

I did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things.

We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we recorded at a radio station on the stairway, and we did a record and it got put out.

All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.

Eighteen years ago, the Holy Spirit led me to establish a church in the heart of Times Square.

Old is always fifteen years from now.

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

I could name a few songs and say exactly what summer they came out and what boy I thought I was in love with when I was fourteen years old, but I think that music used to be really more a part of the culture when people went out dancing in a different way than they do now.

Every Teen Challenge ministry is responsible for raising its own finances, but we assist these works with finances, prayer and counseling, especially overseas in areas such as Siberia, Africa, South America.

Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.

I've been on the road for fifteen years and I had no intent to stop.

The Teen Challenge Training Center on Pennsylvania farmland houses over 200 men in rehab. Other farms and centers have been birthed out of this ministry all over the world.

The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not.

We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.

I don't want to be a 'teen star' because so many people don't ever grow out of that.

The Teen Challenge ministry was born out of those humble early days of ministry. It now includes over 500 drug and alcohol rehab centers around the world, even in Muslim countries. These include homes for girls and women addicts and alcoholics, all which are reaching many.

Most bands don't even last fourteen months let alone fourteen years.

I don't want to just be in the normal kind of teen movie.

I don't know if this is too weird to say, but this is completely surreal for me. Bizarre. The cover of 'Teen Vogue' has been on my bucket list forever.

I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone.

Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.

Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.

I've had this reoccurring dream for the last ten to fifteen years.