134 private quotes tagged teen

“Youth is the trustee of prosperity.”— Benjamin Disraeli

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”— E. E. Cummings

“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

“To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.”— Dave Barry

“Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.”— Laurence J. Peter

“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.”— Dave Barry

“I was into all kinds of music as a teen - country music, because my dad was in a band that played country, and whatever my sister and brother were into.”— Martina McBride

“I had no idea of the size of my bank account as a teen, and I didn't care to know. That was my mom's job, I figured that I would just find out when I turned 18. If you can't trust your mom, then who can you trust?”— Anna Chlumsky

“If you can get a teen leader in each sector of a student population, you can pull people in. Everybody wants to get involved, but most are too afraid. When they see a person they think is cool leading it, they're first to join.”— Andrew Shue

“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.”— John C. Maxwell

“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.”— Terry Brooks

“I did try to get a few of those teen high-school movies, but they just didn't like me. I guess I wasn't a certain type.”— Leelee Sobieski

“At the time I came along, Hollywood's idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit of sex, and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers!”— John Hughes

“We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle.”— John Green

“I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things.”— Miranda Otto

“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 away all my ambition too.”— Johnny Depp

“If you told me when I was a teen that I would end up being a teacher, I would have said you're out of your mind, because quite frankly I hated school.”— Tim Gunn

“Children born to teens have less supportive and stimulating environments, poorer health, lower cognitive development, and worse educational outcomes. Children of teen mothers are at increased risk of being in foster care and becoming teen parents themselves, thereby repeating the cycle.”— Jane Fonda

“Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.”— Louise J. Kaplan

“We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.”— Bryan White

“I love the live performances and Las Vegas. I also like making films that are being discovered by another generation. Having been a teen idol of the '60s is great because you realize you left your generation with a smile and good memories.”— Connie Stevens

“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

“It's about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country, we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention.”— Jane Fonda

“I have been in teen shows for years, so doing that stuff - kissing - is kind of commonplace and not a big deal. It was way more cool just because it was Meg Ryan.”— Adam Brody

“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. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks.”— Sophia Bush