Teen Quotes

Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.

Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.

All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.

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

I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my …

A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.

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

I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try.

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.

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.

Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father.

You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is.

Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.

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

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.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It's when you make your best friends - I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. Y…

We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.

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.

As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took awa…

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.

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