Teenage Quotes

"With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents."
-Omar Bradley

"The young are often accused of exaggerating their troubles; they do so, very often, in the hope of making some impression upon the inertia and the immovability of the selfish old."
-Robertson Davies

"Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves."
-Joseph Priestley

"I was a veteran, before I was a teenager."
-Michael Jackson

"When you are seventeen you aren't really serious."
-Max Lerner

"Marriage or cohabitation is often a shift from teenage grazing or cooking for one to establishing a family identity. It brings together two independent food choice systems to be coupled as one joint system."
-Amelia Lake

"A friend told me that teenage girls are always looking for someone to pin their dreams on. That doesn't make it any less weird though."
-Orlando Bloom

"I went to Washington, not to get that job but to do that job. I wanted to do something about the problems that I saw out there that were happening in our country. I wanted to do something to make sure that all people had access to health care. I wanted to do something to reduce teenage pregnancies and begin to address the needs of our adolescents."
-Joycelyn Elders

"His House colleagues still call him "Jackie One Note"-joking that if you ask him how to solve the problem of teenage pregnancy, he'll tell you to cut taxes."
-Maureen Dowd

"Parents have to be showing some interest in the schooling. With my teenage son, I have to be on him. I'm not accepting anything less. My mother did it with me. It didn't hurt me. . . . It helped me."
-William Gardner

"Relating to teenage girls can be a real dance so to speak. I know we're going to have difficulties when we get to that age."
-Mark Regnerus

"I think U High is a great place to teach and coach at. They asked me why I should be hired, and I think anybody who knows me will say I'm passionate about basketball, knowledgeable about the sport and enthusiastic about working with teenage athletes."
-Laura Sellers

"This case is about the revenge of a suicidal teenage girl. This case is about the retaliation of a teenage girl who was obsessed with Daniel and rejected by Daniel."
-Myron Takemoto

"So many teenage books say, 'This is in your voice, this is about you,' and that's great. We really need that. But we also need books that say, 'This is also for you, but you need to come up here, to step up to this."
-Markus Zusak

"They're not using satellite phones. They're using Web sites and posing as teenage girls."
-John Arquilla

"Eventually we got the teachers to support us. I guess they were antsy because they were new to the school and they were dealing with all these teenage students. When they started learning exactly what we were doing and we showed them examples from the previous years, they supported us."
-Ryan Metcalf

"Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test."
-Gene Tierney

"I was the angriest little person imaginable. I woke up with a frown every morning. I barely talked, wore black all the time and had some serious teenage rebellion years."
-Holly Marie Combs

"We're pretty excited. It's such a cool audience. We really like playing for a teenage audience. They really get in to it."
-Mike Condo

"As we learn more and more about the teenage brain, which tells us that teenagers brains are not fully developed, and that might be part of the reason why they are prone to take more risks and not make good, sound judgement calls, and it may simply be because part of their brains have not fully developed. And there was a study done at Temple University that goes into greater detail on that."
-Catherine L. Rossi

"Clearly, if you ask a teenage boy if he plans on pregnancy, he will probably say no. But just because he doesn't plan to get someone pregnant, that doesn't mean he won't. In order to address teenage pregnancy, we need to ask the questions in different ways."
-Cynthia Rosengard

"The women who are in school can use these computers for research and job searches. A couple of them have teenage children who need a computer for their school work."
-Karen Webster

"These teens are not much younger than some of the soldiers their letters are going to. But their words show some great insights as well as the typical teenage gossip and humor."
-Sharon Rainey

"The all-ages atmosphere is about music and community and having a good, sober time. Not about older men dancing with teenage girls."
-Kate Becker

"Eighth-graders tend to be the first ones to show new trends. Most are blank slates and haven't developed habits and are more sensitive to environmental changes. As these eighth graders move up the age spectrum, the high school teenage smoking trends will follow."
-Lloyd Johnston

"If you put marijuana in a regulated system, it can't help but further cut down on teenage use."
-Neal Levine

"Saudi Arabian police arrested seven teenage boys for leering at women. In accordance with Saudi law, the boys will be whipped and the women will be stoned to death."
-Tina Fey

"I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time, I would have a girlfriend. I think that's where a lot of my pain comes from. I think I never had any teenage years to go back to."
-Spalding Gray