Quotes About Challenges

I used to say teenagers were the aliens among us and I think all teenagers feel that way in many respects.

I was an unplanned pregnancy between two teenagers in Reading, Pennsylvania, and they ended up getting married. They started out struggling.

I've realized that I will probably write about teenagers and that time in people's lives - I'll probably come back to it a lot.

I just wanted to do the things that all normal teenagers wanted to do. So I did become quite rebellious.

In general, you don't want to move your kids when they're teenagers. They're not going to be happy with you.

Cities simply don't have the powers they need to radically innovate in cutting obesity or the number of disaffected teenagers.

Whatever is said about roles drying up, I intend to keep working. Certainly now the roles couldn't be more interesting - playing mothers, divorcees. I think it's going to be exciting to play a mother of teenagers. The longer your life, the deeper it gets.

I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.

A lot of teenagers have parents that are maybe a little too real with them.

My mum told me that grown-ups don't like teenagers, which is the last thing you want to hear when you are one yourself!

I don't have anything new to say about teenagers.

I wasn't bullied by the mean girls in high school. I'm just bullied by adults and teenagers all over the world.

There's so many things that I've gone through that I want to share because there's other teenagers that are going through the same things or will go through the same things.

I may have managed to build a successful technology startup that had gone public by the time my three kids hit their 13th birthdays, but don't think that bought my wife and me any special respect from our teenagers.

I would be lying if I said if I didn't miss out on what normal teenagers do, of course. But I don't need pity for that.

Like me as a teen - and like many teenagers now - my characters are at a peculiar crossroads in their lives. They desperately seek freedom. But at the same time, they are constantly thwarted.

Kids can be annoying. Especially teenagers - oh my gosh. They can be cruel.

There are lots of things going on for teenagers, with exam stress, changing friendship groups, becoming independent, and all those hormone changes affecting you.

I think people find it so easy to write off teenagers and millennials as just being like these shallow, self-centered people who don't have anything real going on and who are always just on their cell phones. But being a teenager is really hard.

On the NBA show we are dealing with millionaires. On the college level we are dealing with some teenagers.

A lot of my stand-up point of view is family - not Disney but dealing with teenagers.

I had a difficult start to secondary school, missing the first month because of 'Mary Poppins.' Everyone knew who I was, who my brother was - McFly were huge by then - and had made their mind up about me. One girl made everyone's life a misery, picking on insecurities. But that's just teenagers.

My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there's an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if you've been a difficult teenager.

When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.