Teenage Years Quotes - Page 3

• When I started reaching teenage years, I listened to everything that was on the radio like everyone else did, which was Chuck Berry, Beach Boys and then of course The Beatles, Stones. And of course in the 60's, I was completely blown away like everyone else by Hendrix, Cream, Deep Purple, Jeff Beck and all of that... so those were my influences.

  Ronnie Montrose

  Beach, Teenage, Boys

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• I missed my teenage years. I was never a teenager.

  Jonas Mekas

  Teenage, Teenager, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In my teenage years I was put off the idea of a career in flying, because I'd convinced myself that you had to be a boffin with degrees in maths and physics, which were my weakest subjects.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Teenage, Math, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of going out there and playing football.

  John Cale

  Football, Teenage, Years

  "Of Anger and Twitching: An Interview with John Cale". Interview with Andrew Phillips, www.popmatters.com. January 09, 2006.

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• I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant.

  Tim Cahill

  Teenage, Years, Would Be

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• When I look back, it was a strange period in my life, looking at my childhood and then my teenage years and forming Slayer when I was still 17, not out of high school.

  Dave Lombardo

  Teenage, School, Years

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• 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 consider my teenage years as being desperately unhappy.

  Tommy Kirk

  Teenage, Years, Unhappy

  "Disney Kids Have Been Getting Naked and Taking Drugs for Over Half a Century, and Here's the Proof!". Interview, moviepilot.com. January 29, 2015.

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• I was too crazy in my teenage years and I wasn't doing anything that made any sense.

  Dito Montiel

  Teenage, Crazy, Years

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Live your life like you are 80 years old looking back on your teenage years

  Taylor Swift

  Teenage, Years, Live Your Life

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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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• 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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• I write for teens partially to work out whatever it was that I needed to from my own teenage years.

  Matthew Tobin Anderson

  Teenage, Writing, 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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• 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 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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