Teen Quotes

My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years.

Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time!

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

I'm still trying to re-create a Ray Charles concert that I heard when I was fifteen years old, and all my nerve endings were fried and transformed, and electricity shot through me.

They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time.

After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks.

The most important role models should and could be parents and teachers. But that said, once you're a teenager you've probably gotten as much of an example from your parents as you're going to.

So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!

As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due.

If we as a nation are to break the cycle of poverty, crime and the growing underclass of young people ill equipped to be productive citizens, we need to not only implement effective programs to prevent teen pregnancy, but we must also help those who have already given birth so that they become effective, nurturing, bonding parents.

This generation has given up on growth. They're just hoping for survival.

I thought if my son was now eighteen years old and he was tempted to join the fight and take the burden of protecting his family - because it's always tempting especially for young men - what would I do as a mother to stop him?

I don't like being compared to anyone or being in a class with someone. I'm a teen actress and therefore I'm competing against Hilary Duff. We're different people like everyone else.

As a teen, I was both anorexic and bulimic.

I don't think there's a problem with being a teen idol, if that happens to me, I'll be happy to deal with it.

Since my teen years I was interested in martial arts.

A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

Everybody is a teenage idol.

I've been with Life now for seventeen years and I have written several articles for them and will be doing more writing and do at least two assignments a year besides my writing.

There's so much excitement around the Phish tours, and if it stopped feeling that way, it would ruin everything we've done for seventeen years.

I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.

You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.

It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late.

I hate it when people call me a teen queen.

At the age of 16 I was already dreaming of having a baby because I felt myself to be an adult, but my mum forbid it. Right now, I feel like a teenager and I want to have fun for one or two more years before starting a family.

I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony.

Research shows that parents are the single biggest influence on children - if you are worried about your teen and drugs, talk to them.

I was a happy kid up until I hit the teen years.