(362 quotes found)
“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
“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
“Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty”
Mark Twain
“I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors.”
Beverly Mitchell
“Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.”
“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.”
Dean Kamen
“Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.”
Doug Larson
“When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.”
Max Lerner
“Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth and fresher breath.”
Dave Barry
“No one is born a good citizen; no nation is born a democracy. Rather, both are processes that continue to evolve over a lifetime. Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts off from its youth severs its lifeline.”
Kofi Annan