“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.”
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teen
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“Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.”
“I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.”
“I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.”
“As I've said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager.”
“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.”
“Teenagers who are never required to vacuum are living in one.”
“I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown.”
“I think there's a time in your life where you don't feel like you fit in. I think everyone has that when you're a teenager, especially, and especially in the society we live in.”
“I was a handful growing up.”
“Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.”
“Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves.”
“The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not.”
“Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.”
“Every Teen Challenge ministry is responsible for raising its own finances, but we assist these works with finances, prayer and counseling, especially overseas in areas such as Siberia, Africa, South America.”
“If we as a nation are to break the cycle of poverty, crime and the growing underclass of young people ill equipped to be productive citizens, we need to not only implement effective programs to prevent teen pregnancy, but we must also help those who have already given birth so that they become effective, nurturing, bonding parents.”
“I was a teen star. That's disgusting enough.”
“We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we recorded at a radio station on the stairway, and we did a record and it got put out.”
“I wasn't going to have fun doing a teen movie again.”
“I'd never made a teen comedy in my life.”
“I hate it when people call me a teen queen.”