Teen Quotes

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

"Good habits formed at youth make all the difference."

"When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world."

"My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone."

"We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public."

"Keep true to the dreams of your youth."

"Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces."

"Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life."

"Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath."

"Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born."

"When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my daughters, 'Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.'"

"We must tell girls their voices are important."

"Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves."

"Youth comes but once in a lifetime."

"The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers."

"So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!"

"Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice."

"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."

"I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence."

"Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It's when you make your best friends - I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks."

"I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework."

"As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you."

"Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts."

"Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood."

"No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren't cool, just to establish themselves. That's what adolescence is about. They're gonna go through that no matter what."

"All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away."

"I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes."

"To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent."

"I was a handful growing up."

"You've got to grow up sometime."