Teens Quotes - Page 6

• A monster. You and your friends, all of you. Pretty monsters. It's a stage all girls go through. If you're lucky you get through it without doing any permanent damage to yourself or anyone else.

  Kelly Link

  Inspirational, Girl, Teenager

  Kelly Link (2009). “Pretty Monsters”, p.360, Canongate Books

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• "Lights," I said softly. This had become my favorite word over the past week. In my mind, it had become synonymous with freedom.

  Ernest Cline

  Healing, Past, Light

  "Ready Player One". Book by Ernest Cline, 2011.

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• I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.

  Imogen Poots

  Brother, My Birthday, Papa

  "Imogen Poots Talks Jeff Buckley Biopic & What She’s Got Coming To A Theater Near You". Interview with Jeff Otto, www.indiewire.com. August 8, 2011.

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• In my late teens, like many a devout Catholic boy, I considered the priesthood and even went as far as discussing the idea at a seminary in Belfast but hesitated. I decided to focus on physics at university, another way perhaps to contemplate the mysteries of reality.

  Stephen Curry

  Boys, Reality, Ideas

  Source: www.thefreethinktank.com

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• In the 20 long, hungry years between my late teens and late 30s I bought in to virtually every new diet and/or exercise regime that hoved into view, particularly at this most vulnerable time for those of us prone to poor body image - a new year.

  Arabella Weir

  New Year, Exercise, Years

  "Try it - don't diet" by Arabella Weir, www.theguardian.com. December 31, 2010.

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• I wish America would stop judging and criticizing teens and instead, try to understand the battles they have to fight every day.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Fighting, America, Judging

  "Laurie Halse Anderson on Her New Book, The Impossible Knife of Memory". Interview with Monica Edinger, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 14, 2014.

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• Always believe in yourself. No matter who's around you being negative or thrusting negative energy at you, totally block it off. Because whatever you believe, you become.

  Michael Jackson

  Inspirational, Block, Teenager

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• Everyone who deals with teens seems to agree that the most important and toughest job is staying in connection and conversation ... not delivering a lecture but saying what we think.

  Ellen Goodman

  Jobs, Thinking, Important

  Ellen Goodman (2010). “Paper Trail: Common Sense in Uncommon Times”, p.327, Simon and Schuster

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• I started to play Jazz music in my early teens. A boyfriend brought records over, so I listened to everything

  Marian McPartland

  Play, Records, Jazz

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• When I was in my early teens, I joined a cult. And we weren't allowed to listen to secular music or anything that wasn't made by us. So I spent a lot of time not listening to music, and by the time I could, I just didn't get into it.

  Natalia Kills

  Secular Music, Listening, Made

  "A Moment With Natalia Kills". Interview with Romy Oltuski, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 28, 2014.

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• It is time for every one of us to roll up our sleeves and put ourselves at the top of our commitment list.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Commitment, Healing, Lists

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• I was having my teens in my 30s.

  Julie Walters

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• March to the beat of your own drummer.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Healing, Overcoming Adversity, March

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• It took me years to actually get comfortable on the stage. I prefer the intimacy of screen; it comes easier to me. In theater, you have to be louder and bigger - that was harder for many years in my teens. But now Ive conquered that. I eat up the stage. I love it.

  Aileen Quinn

  Years, Intimacy, Easier

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• I have a really good idea of who my readers are and always write with a sensitivity to my audience. I use the F word when necessary, but there are words I won't use, mainly because I don't like them. I don't write about body parts when I write about sex. It's not about the physiological, it's more important for teens to read about the emotional aspects. I do think there are times when self-censorship is important.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Sex, Writing, Emotional

  Source: ncac.org

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• I was in my teens and I was going through a bit of a phase, drinking a lot and doing E tablets and getting into street fighting and getting depressed. Then I'd listen to Marley and it lifted me out of it. I'd like to try and do the same for kids, that my music would give them a bit of hope and strength, and they'd know that I was telling the truth and I wouldn't lie to them.

  Damien Dempsey

  Lying, Drinking, Kids

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• In my teens, I joined the Parachute Regiment. I jumped out of lots of airplanes, as much as the Government budget would allow us to. I did two active tours of duty: Northern Ireland, and then the Falklands war.

  Mark Burnett

  War, Airplane, Two

  "Mark Burnett Started His Career Jumping Out Of Airplanes And Transporting Prisoners On Ships" by Stephen Chao, www.businessinsider.com. April 21, 2011.

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• Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived.

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias

  Baseball, Athlete, Goal

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• When you set out on your journey to Ithaca, pray that the road is long, full of adventure, full of knowledge.

  C.P. Cavafy

  Healing, Adventure, Journey

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• The teens are emotionally unstable and pathic. It is a natural impulse to experience hot and perfervid psychic states, and it is characterized by emotionalism. We see here the instability and fluctuations now so characteristic. The emotions develop by contrast and reaction into the opposite.

  G. Stanley Hall

  Children, Emotional, Opposites

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• We are all capable of much more than we think we are.

  Laozi

  Healing, Thinking, Humanity

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• It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Teenager, Men

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• Most of us would be upset if we were accused of being "silly." But the word "silly" comes from the old English word "selig," and its literal definition is "to be blessed, happy, healthy and prosperous."

  Zig Ziglar

  Happiness, Meaningful, Silly

  Zig Ziglar (1997). “Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance”, p.63, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I learned together.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Science, Two, Experience

  "World Authors 1950 - 1970". Book by John Wakeman, 1975.

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• I'd love to adopt, but having a daughter, Daisy, who's in the middle of her teens, I'm now thinking: Is this a time to start all over again or is this a time to realise those child-rearing years are over?

  Joely Richardson

  Mother, Daughter, Children

  "Joely Richardson wants to adopt but not like Madonna". The Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. May 30, 2008.

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