Words matter. These are the best Teenage Years Quotes from famous people such as Aidan Chambers, DJ Premier, Adriano Zumbo, Kevin Abstract, Kazuo Ishiguro, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.
I like soul, I like rock, I like new wave, I like punk music, I like blues, I like jazz, and I was brought up on all of them from a young boy all the way to my teenage years, when I was wild and crazy, in college.
In my early teenage years I wasn’t doing well at school and I wasn’t really interested in a way. I knew I wasn’t going to go to uni or anything like that.
I think the most important part of the teenage years is wondering.
There’s something peculiar about writing fiction. It requires an interesting balance between seeing the world as a child and having the wisdom of a middle-aged person. The further you get from childhood and the experience of the teenage years, the greater the danger of losing that wellspring.
During my childhood and teenage years, everything I knew was at war. My mother and father were at war. My sister and I were at war. I was at war with my atypical nature, desperately trying to fit in and be normal. Even my genes were at war – the cool Swiss-German side versus the hot-headed Corsican.
Whether experimenting with the latest trends during my teenage years or turning to quality designer pieces to show off my more refined style today, I’ve always turned to places like T.J.Maxx to find those pieces that are truly me.
Teenage years, having gone through it all, I know it’s a rough, rough time, and I would say to accept that message of letting go, letting it happen and accepting that things don’t always happen for a reason, or you may not understand the reason, but it’s all part of the journey, and try to enjoy the ride.
I was 12 when my father passed, so I didn’t have a father during my teenage years.
I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant.
We left Egypt when I was seven, and we didn’t return until I was 21. My teen years were divided between the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia. Up until we left the U.K., it was like your regular teenage years. The one thing I remember is that I couldn’t date. That was one thing my parents made very clear.
I was on the Internet a lot during my teenage years, and I think the influence of that kind of textuality on my writing has been pretty significant.
My mum is very driven and has always kept me busy… She used to say to me, ‘Nobody likes a teenager. So use your teenage years to work. Then enjoy your life when you’re slightly older.’
My mom’s mission my entire teenage years was just to save my life.
I am really very fond of Indian classical music though I have spent my teenage years in Bahrain.
Mothers and daughters can stay very connected during teenage years. In the middle of your life, you can become very alone. Even though you’re connected deeply to other family members, lovers, husbands, friends.
As long as I can remember, I’ve been writing – first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was also in love with sailing.
Acting was always there, it’s true. But for a long time, in my teenage years, I wasn’t sure about it – not because I didn’t like it, but I didn’t want people to think I hadn’t earned it.
I’d begun reading Crumb shortly before that, and other underground stuff, so that was an influence to some degree. Of course the Marvel and DC comics, they had been my main interests in my teenage years.
I’ve spent a lot of my teenage years working on sets. I’ve missed out on more than just playing rugby, but I think I’ve managed to keep my feet on the ground and keep my friends around me.
I really can’t be bothered going to a barber. And shaving every morning, that’s nightmarish. I spent my teenage years covered in tiny little bits of toilet paper.
I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football.
I went through my awkward teenage years. I don’t want to go back.
For some in my generation, Sept. 11th was a moment of political awakening. For others, the Iraq War or the financial crisis or the rise of Obama were the major events of their teenage years that began to lay the foundation for their views.
My teenage years were pretty – I have regrets about those years. Obviously everyone knows that as a teenager it’s really confusing and your feelings are so raw.
I was a huge horror fan, especially in my teenage years. Back then, there were a lot of Italian horror movies – some zombie, some just really strange movies that made no sense. I was really into shock and gore.
Before ‘Veronica Mars,’ I was not, and probably am still not, much of a crime reader. My mom left out a copy of ‘Helter Skelter’ when I was 10, and I secretly read it, and then I spent all my teenage years afraid of hippies. I kept away from crime books for, like, ten years.
My teenage years were exactly what they were supposed to be. Everybody has their own path. It’s laid out for you. It’s just up to you to walk it.
My mom had me at a young age, like 20, and she was the oldest child. All her brothers were seven and 10, so I was like a younger brother more so than the oldest child. I was the younger brother to all my uncles, so they were going through their childhood and their teenage years, and I was right there.
I started my teenage years singing in churches across America, and finally wound up on a big stage.
The Internet has been great for the LGBT community. I know many older transgender people who say, ‘I didn’t know there was a single person like me until I was 40.’ I can’t imagine growing up in my teenage years without access to that information.
We lived by the water, and I was a pretty normal kid until my teenage years; then I dyed my hair pink and spiraled out of control.
In my teenage years I was put off the idea of a career in flying, because I’d convinced myself that you had to be a boffin with degrees in maths and physics, which were my weakest subjects.
I accepted Christ at a young age, at the age of six years old, and just tried to play hockey and balance that. I had some struggles later in my teenage years. I moved away from home and struggled a little bit being on my home and finding out who I was and trying to mix that with my faith and make it real.
In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.
I’m Mexican-American. My dad was actually born in Mexico. He was raised up there, and he came back and forth to America pretty much his whole teenage years. My mom is from Sacramento, California, and she’s a blonde-haired, blue-eyed girl. She’s a whitey.
The sacrifices ordinary American men and women from communities large and small have been willing to make, often before they were past their teenage years, have secured our nation unprecedented freedoms and made us the world’s bulwark of liberty.
In my teenage years, there was a lot of angst going on.
Boys do cry, but I don’t think I shed a tear for a good chunk of my teenage years.
As a member of the oldest slice of the Millennial generation, my teenage years spanned the late 1990s through the start of the new millennium. I spent that time watching a lot of MTV’s ‘Total Request Live’, ‘Dawson’s Creek’, and wearing out a dual VHS tape of ‘Titanic’.
I’m very happy with my life and career, but I do find myself having serious attacks of nostalgia, and I don’t quite know why. Even though I’ve got to travel the world and do amazing things, I still want to go back to my teenage years and change little aspects of it. It’s strange, but it does continue to bug me.
It wasn’t until my teenage years that a book really left a mark, and that was George Orwell’s ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four.’ It was on the syllabus at school when I was about 16, and I went on to read more of his books. It was the height of the Cold War, so a lot of the messages really resonated at the time.
It took me until my teenage years to realize that I was medicating with music. I was pushing back against my stupid school uniform, instructors who called me by my last name and my classmates, who, while friendly enough, were not at all inspiring.
My dad grew up in Nicaragua in his teenage years, then immigrated to the United States.
The one thing I really lucked out on is that all through my teenage years, when my sister was a lifeguard and everyone I knew was out in the sun all day – I was in the theater. Everyone called me Casper because I never had a tan, and everyone else was tan all the time. I think that was the luckiest thing of my life.
I’m quite disappointed that I’ll never relive my teenage years.
I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It wasn’t terribly painful. I thought some of the stories were neat; I liked some of the liturgy and some of the songs.
From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.
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