Teenage Quotes

• There isn't a child who hasn't gone out into the brave new world who eventually doesn't return to the old homestead carrying a bundle of dirty clothes.

  Art Buchwald

  Inspirational, Children, Dirty

  Art Buchwald (1986). “"You can fool all of the people all the time"”, Fawcett Books

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• As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Social Studies "Tips for Teens" (1981)

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

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Motivational, Birthday

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

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• My teenage years were exactly what they were supposed to be. Everybody has their own path. It's laid out for you. It's just up to you to walk it.

  Justin Timberlake

  Years, Path, Up To You

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

  Dave Barry

  Inspirational, Funny, Parenting

  Dave Barry (2013). “My Teenage Son's Goal in Life Is to Make Me Feel 3,500 Years Old: and Other Thoughts on Parenting from Dave Barry”, p.73, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Violet will be a good color for hair at just about the same time that brunette becomes a good color for flowers.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Inspirational, Flower, Hair

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.328, Vintage

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• When buying a used car, punch the buttons on the radio. If all the stations are rock and roll, there's a good chance the transmission is shot.

  Larry Lujack

  Inspirational, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Inspirational, Laughter, Laughing

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.

  John Green

  Hope, Alaska, Broken

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.161, Penguin

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• I have seen my kid struggle into the kitchen in the morning with outfits that need only one accessory: an empty gin bottle.

  Erma Bombeck

  Inspirational, Morning, Struggle

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• Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves.

  Virginia Satir

  Inspirational, People, Trying

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• The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding.

  Edgar Friedenberg

  Inspirational, Target, Communist

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• My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

  George Foreman

  Life, Kids, Phones

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• If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.

  Al Bernstein

  Inspirational, Birthday, Cutting

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

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• The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

  Quentin Crisp

  Parent, Copying, Rebel

  The Naked Civil Servant ch. 19 (1968)

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• The Gulf War was like teenage sex. We got in too soon and out too soon.

  Tom Harkin

  Sex, War, Political

  1991 Quoted in the Independent on Sunday, 29 Sep.

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• How strange that the young should always think the world is against them - when in fact that is the only time it is for them.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Inspirational, Thinking, Teens

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.106, BookBaby

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• Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Inspirational, Adultery, Stage

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• A baby-sitter is a teenager who gets two dollars an hour to eat five dollars' worth of your food.

  Henny Youngman

  Inspirational, Baby, Two

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• You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

  Dave Barry

  Cute, Birthday, Book

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• Teenage girls, please don’t worry about being super popular in high school, or being the best actress in high school, or the best athlete. Not only do people not care about any of that the second you graduate, but when you get older, if you reference your successes in high school too much, it actually makes you look kind of pitiful, like some babbling old Tennessee Williams character with nothing else going on in her current life. What I’ve noticed is that almost no one who was a big star in high school is also big star later in life. For us overlooked kids, it’s so wonderfully fair.

  Mindy Kaling

  Girl, Funny Inspirational, Stars

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)”, p.31, Three Rivers Press

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• I preferred that option, where my camera (and by proxy, me) could look them straight in the eye. The way they reacted to me was always interesting. Sometimes hard young men would reveal vulnerability and a softer side. In the case of teenage girls, I often got a fascinating glimpse of the woman inside.

  Derek Ridgers

  Girl, Eye, Men

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.

  Clint Eastwood

  War, Guy, Generations

  "Rough Month for President Obama", www.foxnews.com. November 19, 2009.

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• It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.

  E. W. Howe

  Education, Teaching, School

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• Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.

  Carol Burnett

  Inspirational, Pimples, Teens

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