Famous Teen Quotes

"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"

"Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other"

"All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away"

"I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird"

Uma Thurman, Actress

"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"

Sophia Bush, Actress

"At the age of 16 I was already dreaming of having a baby because I felt myself to be an adult, but my mum forbid it. Right now, I feel like a teenager and I want to have fun for one or two more years before starting a family"

Milla Jovovich, Model

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

Vanessa Hudgens, Actress

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

Robert Cormier, Author

"I mean, I'm pretty good in real life, but sometimes people seem surprised that I'm like a normal teenager and wear black nail polish and I'm just a little bit more edgy than the person I play on television"

Brittany Snow, Actress

"Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses"

Jena Malone, Actress

"People - not just in their teenage years - hold on to this fantasy of love when they're not ready to have a real relationship"

Keri Russell, Actress

"Adolescence is just one big walking pimple"

Carol Burnett, Actress

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

Constance Baker Motley, Activist

"A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult"

John B. S. Haldane, Scientist

"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"

Alice Hoffman, Author

"As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too"

Johnny Depp, Actor

"Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father"

Dale Earnhardt, Celebrity

"Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion"

Louise J. Kaplan

"Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did"

Clyde Tombaugh, Scientist

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

G. Stanley Hall, Psychologist

"Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl"

Claire Danes, Actress

"Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood"

Louise J. Kaplan

"I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties"

Winona Ryder, Actress

"Teenagers who are never required to vacuum are living in one"

Fred G. Gosman

"But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise"

Wayne Kramer

"The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not"

Louise J. Kaplan

"I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown"

Diane Cilento, Actress

"Everybody is a teenage idol"

Barry Gibb, Musician

"This generation has given up on growth. They're just hoping for survival"

Penelope Spheeris, Director

"I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China"

Rob Lowe, Actor

"As I've said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager"

Joe Bob Briggs, Critic

"Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves"

John Knowles, Novelist

"Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon"

Terry Brooks, Writer

"The most important role models should and could be parents and teachers. But that said, once you're a teenager you've probably gotten as much of an example from your parents as you're going to"

Andrew Shue, Actor

"The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up"

John C. Maxwell, Clergyman

"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"

Virginia Satir, Psychologist