Quotes About Teens

Even though I've been an avid consumer of contemporary music since my early teens, the world of rock music has always been at something of a distance - I listen to it, read about it, I talk about it, but I've had little or no contact with its denizens.

It's important to make teens realize the influence they have over others.

Having teens of my own, who let me just add, I am not trying to impress. I come into contact with a lot of them from time to time, if I am lucky! Just listening to them is like mainlining adrenaline.

I have struggled with self-esteem issues since my teens, but it's clear in my first long-ago diary that I didn't start out that way. I acquired my low self-esteem. I learned it.

Sometime in your teens you have to decide what you want to do. I knew it had to be cinema.

I think teens trust each other's opinions about products because of the quality of authenticity that they think their friend's recommendation has.

I was a harpsichordist in my teens, and there was a bunch of us in Liverpool who got together every week to play Bach.

I give people 'If You Came Softly' when they demand proof that novels for teens can be as good as the best novels for adults.

Marijuana is a much bigger part of the American addiction problem than most people - teens or adults - realize.

The only place I'm recognized is at the mall, because that's where the teens are.

In the '60s, parents were told to let their teens rebel, explore their boundaries. Increasingly the same message is being given to the parents of tweens.

By the time I was in my teens, I was listening to Delta blues and jazz.

There are happy stories out there, but I think some of them may raise false expectations for teens.

Love Is Louder is a movement that is hopefully going to bring some awareness and make some noise when it comes to teens who are feeling suicidal or even just sad, outcasts, and being bullied, and really feel like they have nowhere to turn to.

Teens are not like the weird, dumb dwarves you have around your house. They are actually you when you were younger.

In my teens I was interested in photography. Then I decided that I should learn something about the world of commerce. And I came to America at age 17 to escape Europe. I went to NYU - nothing better than being 17 years old and coming to New York.

Too often the pressure for popularity, on children and teens, places an economic burden on the income of the father, so mother feels she must go to work to satisfy her children's needs. That decision can be most shortsighted.

Teens look at cause-related efforts with some scrutiny. They know they are often a target market, but it has to make sense to them.

'Maze Runner' is about a group of teens that live inside this giant maze. And outside the maze are these creatures that come out at night. The centerpiece of the maze where we stay is called the Glades, and we call ourselves the Gladers.

I was a quiet, nerdy kid living in the Bronx. I spent most of my teens in my room, taking apart electrical items to figure out how they worked before putting them back together, and listening to the music my four older sisters and parents played.

It's almost uncanny to receive a prize named in honor of Bernard Malamud. I must have been in my early teens when 'The Magic Barrel' was published and I first read it.

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.

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

What I wanted to do was use literature and different kinds of stories and poems as a springboard, tapping into the creativity of our teens - I wanted teenagers to come up with their own creative responses to literature - using books themselves as a starting point.