I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown.
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.
I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.
To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.
We must tell girls their voices are important.
All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.
Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.
The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.
I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.
Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.
Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.
I was a handful growing up.
I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.
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.
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.
A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.
My own experience being bullied – it made me a more compassionate person. It made me more sympathetic to the adolescent experience.
I’m a teenager, but I’m independent – I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone.
When I look in the mirror I see the girl I was when I was growing up, with braces, crooked teeth, a baby face and a skinny body.
We all have an interest in making sure teens grow up healthy and drug-free.
My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.
There is a point in every young person’s life when you realize that the youth that you’ve progressed through and graduate to some sort of adulthood is equally as messed up as where you’re going.
You’ve got to grow up sometime.
Everybody is a teenage idol.
