Quotes About Teenager

Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar.

When I was at high school, I used to pretend that I had work, and I would go and tell the head of school that I, like, really needed to leave, and I was really stressed out because I had work.

The food of my childhood was revolting because I was a child of rationing. However, I still managed to be a very plump child and, indeed, as a teenager, positively fat. In my early twenties I lost three stone in one summer using the only diet that works: the pure protein diet. I kept to it until I was about 50.

We were using Brooke as an actress; she was playing different roles: a liberated woman, a teenager, a vamp.

In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda. The Germans were evil, but treated with some respect: They were, after all, blond Aryan types, just like our imaginary self-image. Japanese were mere vermin, to be crushed like ants.

I was, without a sliver of a doubt, a no-good, lazy slacker of a child, and after I discovered literature, I was totally and utterly a no-good, lazy slacker of a child who read books. A lot of books, good and bad, but my favourite - the books I read and reread in my teens - were by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman.

When I was a teenager, the most valuable American companies were in finance and manufacturing.

I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature. So I think that was probably my most valued characteristic as a teenager.

I'm grateful my teenaged daughter is healthy and well and for the work I do to make a living.

I come from a visual background. I used to work in the camera department at Warner Bros. when I was a teenager. I grew up dusting lenses and learning about photography.

You never forget your first felony. Mine was mail tampering. As a hoops-crazed 13-year-old, I rifled through a new neighbor's mailbox to confirm that the occupant of the split-level on 98 1/2 Street in Bloomington, Minn., really was former Gophers basketball star Flip Saunders.

I was accepted to multiple fashion schools. But I had two kids when I was a teenager. My kids' mom already had two kids when she was still in high school. So I had to be in the streets early. Instead of going to fashion school, I took the street route.

I went to high school in Orange County.

I originally came out as gay when I was a teenager, then backtracked when I thought I had closed off the market a bit!

I used to always rock a cap when I was in high school and get them taken away. It was an excessive amount. Like, so often that, at the end of each school year, there would be a box of all the confiscated caps. After they gave back a few caps to other kids, they would just give me the box because the rest were all my hats.

I played outfield in high school a little bit.

Music was my only outlet as a teenager. I always had the gift of music; I was singing at the age of four.

what was most unfair about being a teenager was the way time moved with such implacable slowness most of the time, only to evaporate into quicksilver at moments like this.

I wanted to be a martial arts film star when I was a teenager.

I was a real art freak when I was a teenager.

change?" Liz asked plaintively. They never saw him anymore, he was either at sports, at school, or at his girlfriend's. Ever since he'd gotten his driver's license, she felt as though he only slept there.

chauffeur of three, including a precocious, independent-minded teenage boy.

Among them would be an enterprising teenager in Freehold, New Jersey, who snapped up a mail order copy of the record, played it 'thirty or forty' times in rapid succession, and then immediately began badgering his father, a prison guard named Doug Springsteen, for a guitar.

He was backing away behind cover fire with the engaged smile of a teenager seeing his violent daydreams come true.