Teenage Years Quotes - Page 3

• I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time, I would have a girlfriend. I think that's where a lot of my pain comes from. I think I never had any teenage years to go back to.

  Spalding Gray

  Girlfriend, Pain, Teenage

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• I had a very happy childhood, happy teenage years and I was famous by the time I was 22. A charmed life.

  Rik Mayall

  Teenage, Years, Childhood

  "Rik Mayall: Forever young". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2000.

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• I really didn't settle stuff spiritually until I was 17 years of age. But through my teenage years I just knew that someday I had to settle accounts and get things straightened up and move in that direction.

  John C. Maxwell

  Teenage, Moving, Years

  Source: www.christianbookpreviews.com

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• Mothers and daughters can stay very connected during teenage years. In the middle of your life, you can become very alone. Even though you're connected deeply to other family members, lovers, husbands, friends.

  Holly Hunter

  Daughter, Mother, Husband

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One of the reasons that I think I do love to write is because I did have a difficult childhood and not so great teenage years. It always helped me escape from my problems.

  Meg Cabot

  Teenage, Writing, Thinking

  "Meg Cabot's teen escapism and empowered heroines". Interview with Ashley Strickland, www.cnn.com. May 12, 2011.

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• I remember [in teenage years] thinking there were a lot of check boxes out there to sort teens into appropriate molds, and they didn't seem to make check boxes for whatever it was that I had grown up into. I definitely explore that a lot in my novels.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Teenage, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• The responsibility of building leadership in the Church belongs to the father and the mother. . . . As youth grow and mature through their teenage years and move toward adulthood, the Church picks up an important role in this process of giving youth an opportunity to lead, but it begins in the home.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Mother, Teenage, Father

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• All my teenage years my punk was hip-hop - I just hated pop music.

  Gustav Ejstes

  Teenage, Years, Hip Hop

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It took me until my teenage years to realize that I was medicating with music. I was pushing back against my stupid school uniform, instructors who called me by my last name and my classmates, who, while friendly enough, were not at all inspiring.

  Henry Rollins

  Teenage, Stupid, School

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• I'm a big genre fan. I'm a big science fiction nerd and horror film nerd. I'm obsessed with Pam Grier. I wanted to be her for all of my teenage years.

  Alex Stapleton

  Teenage, Years, Nerd

  Source: collider.com

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• The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.

  Eric Allin Cornell

  Teenage, Years, Culture

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• The sacrifices ordinary American men and women from communities large and small have been willing to make, often before they were past their teenage years, have secured our nation unprecedented freedoms and made us the world's bulwark of liberty.

  Steve Buyer

  Teenage, Sacrifice, Past

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• Men in their teenage years and even into their mid to late 20s, they're just baboons. They're really not capable of taking account of other people's feelings, being considerate, being intimate. And this is the bottom line.

  Michael Catherwood

  Teenage, Men, Feelings

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• I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It wasn't terribly painful.

  John Irving

  Teenage, Sunday, Years

  Interview with Suzanne Herel, www.motherjones.com. May 1997.

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• Half the time your kids end up hating you for at least 5 of their teenage years[.] And don't ever expect anything so mundane as a thank you

  Donna Ball

  Teenage, Hate, Kids

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• God bless you young women and young men who struggle through the worrisome teenage years. Some of you may not yet have found yourselves, but you are not lost, for Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, our Savior and Redeemer.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Jesus, Teenage, Struggle

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• I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.

  Dana Hill

  Hurt, Teenage, Years

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• I'd begun reading Crumb shortly before that, and other underground stuff, so that was an influence to some degree. Of course the Marvel and DC comics, they had been my main interests in my teenage years.

  Chester Brown

  Teenage, Reading, Years

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• I was so thrilled that I was having a girl, because I just am so girly myself, but I think the teenage years are going to be very interesting.

  Sarah Dessen

  Girl, Teenage, Thinking

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• When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.

  Aidan Chambers

  Teenage, Experiencing Everything, Years

  "Shock tactics" by Alison Brace, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2000.

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• Like many authors, I caught the writing bug during my teenage years. I don't remember the exact day or year, but I remember that reading S.E. Hinton's 'The Outsiders' sparked my interest in writing.

  Ally Carter

  Teenage, Reading, Writing

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• I've spent a lot of my teenage years working on sets. I've missed out on more than just playing rugby, but I think I've managed to keep my feet on the ground and keep my friends around me.

  Douglas Booth

  Teenage, Thinking, Years

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• I listened to classic rock and roll, and punk rock. 'Goon Squad' provides a pretty accurate playlist of my teenage years, though it leaves out 'The Who,' which was my absolute favorite band.

  Jennifer Egan

  Teenage, Rocks, Years

  "Author Jennifer Egan: Making Her Own Rules". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. March 25, 2011.

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• If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.

  Rachel Johnson

  Teenage, Years, Parent

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• I think, for one thing, all of us remember those teenage years and those songs that we fell in love with and the music scene that we were part of. So, in a certain way, music cuts through time like almost nothing else. You know, it makes us feel like we're back in an earlier moment.

  Jennifer Egan

  Love, Song, Teenage

  Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. Jul 1, 2010.

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