Top 642 Teens Quotes & Sayings

It was a lot of 'Dungeons and Dragons' all through my teens.

The young adult literature is relatively new - it just kind of exploded in the 2000s. When I grew up, there weren't bookstores with sections dedicated to teen lit, nor was my generation raised reading books written specifically for us. Because of that, today we still think of books for teens as children's books and so when you write a book that includes sensitive topics, it just seems even more controversial. What's troubling to me about that is these are issues adults know that teens deal with. Not writing about them makes them something we don't, or can't talk about.

The thing that I find interesting about teens now is that no matter how desperate we seem to be taxonomically 'othering' them, for one reason or another - because the Internet, because whatever - I feel like a lot of the benchmarks and the experiences are, you know, same for teens through time immemorial.

All teens are in trouble in one form or another.

And they just slam the door. And they don't peek into that land any more. And they forget that teens and tweens are people, absolutely just as much as adults are. And their problems may play out on a smaller scale, but the things they go through are equally as valid as a CEO trying to figure out how to deal with a crisis at work. I just write for teens because I love 'em.

In fact, a University of Connecticut study showed that as many as three in four pre-teens and teens who are exposed to Internet gambling become addicted.

When I was in my late teens I was already interested in philosophy.

The whole thing about bullying is: yes, the culture has to change. Yes, teens have the power to change it. It’s not going to happen overnight, but this is definitely something that I want to start motivating teens to do today." - Publisher Weekly

It's important to make teens realize the influence they have over others.

In my early teens, I started collecting soundtrack albums.

I've been an amateur photographer since my teens.

In your late teens and early twenties, everything is idealism. Everything should just work in black and white. That's good. You need that. I think most revolutions are started by people in their teens and twenties.

My kids probably started drinking coffee in their late teens.

Sometime in your teens you have to decide what you want to do. I knew it had to be cinema.

I think you've got to be able to relate to what teens are going through.

One of the things that I really like about young adult fiction is that you can explore the relationships between teens and their parents. I definitely think that teens are a product of their parents. You either end up just like them or you consciously make the decision to be unlike them.

By the time I was in my teens, I was listening to Delta blues and jazz.

Teens are the target demographic for everything in pop culture.

I was this very self-conscious, shy person once I hit my teens.

Certainly working with teens keeps me up to date with language and with certain kinds of thinking. I often feel like I have to go back to that 17-year-old Chris Crutcher, and that forms the core voice. I can draw on teens from 1964 to 2001 to find a part of the voice I need.

Raising teens is a challenge - that's for sure.

Ever since I was in my teens I had plans at one point in my life to write a novel.

Older teens tend to write to me and say, 'Thank you for not writing down to teenagers.' And then there are the letters from adults who say, 'This is such a good book; why did you write it for teens?'

Traditionally parents have wondered what their teens were doing, but now teens are much more likely to be doing things that can get them killed.

Vampires and teens have a lot in common. Teens have surging hormones, vampires have surging blood lust. Teenagers think they're immortal.

Having to parent your mother or father is a challenge that way too many teens have to deal with. Teens whose parents are dealing with substance abuse, financial hardship, job loss, mental illness and divorce deserve our love, support, and compassion. I wish America would stop judging and criticizing teens and instead, try to understand the battles they have to fight every day.

I've been writing songs since my teens.

I do enjoy talking about how everything's changed and I'm fascinated by it, and I can spend my time worrying, like, "Are we going to appeal to teens?" But then, if I were to try to make a record for teens, I'd be doing exactly what I said I didn't want to do. That'd be posturing. And I'm watching other people trying to do that, and they all look stupid. But for some of them, it's working, so cash in.

Other people have suggested that I write about teens because I'm perpetually stuck in that stage of my own development. That could very well be true. I would throw out that teens and tweens are just absolutely fabulous and the most interesting people on the planet. And it is a time of high drama, and everything matters.

Teens just understand the world in ways I don't think any of us adults do.

In Maybe I Will, Laurie Gray writes about important topics that teens need to talk about, including sexual assault, friendship, and alcoholism or self-destructive behaviors that result from trauma. Maybe I Will may help some teens know they're not alone.

I was totally into jazz in my teens.

In my teens, I was very insecure. And so I invented Roger Moore.

In my teens, I fell in love with the movies.

Teens are strange and magical.

I talk to teens everyday about topics that are often extraordinarily uncomfortable.

I was debauched in my 20s, but I was fit and healthy in my teens.

In my teens, I was never part of the cool crowd.

During my 'difficult teens,' I read about worlds that were mysterious.

I was the first real generation to have their teens on the Internet.

There aren't plus-sized teens represented in film who aren't made the butt of a joke.

I was fascinated by 'The Lord of the Rings' from about the age of eight, and that lasted well into my teens.

I am not intimidated by puerile boys acting like pre-teens.

At the end of the day, most parents have more in common with their teens than they realize. Let's retire the bootstrap mentality and stop telling our teens that their stress is self-imposed.

I think in general in my teens I had a lot of crushes on men on the Internet, most notably Momus since I was in my late teens. John Darnielle was also another big crush.

Pre-teens, teens and college students have unlimited access to the Internet - 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Because of the repeated exposure they have to illegal Internet gambling sites, they fall victim by the thousands.

I became conflicted in my late teens.

The only place I'm recognized is at the mall, because that's where the teens are.

I left school, and I went to work in a computer company. I was in my late teens.

I have tremendous respect for teens who navigate the quagmire that is modern religion. If there is any message in my books, I want it to be that it's okay to ask questions, and it's okay to come up with a belief system all your own. Teens who change their worldviews in the face of tremendous social pressure are heroes to me.

Teens in the '90s had the same basic desires as they do now.

I've battled food issues since my late teens.

When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.

I was having my teens in my 30s.

This quarantine life is not new to me. I've been like this from my teens.

Teens find out a lot from other teens.

I actually worked with an organization called Drama Club that works with incarcerated teens and youth in a detention center and in Rikers Island, which a lot of people don't know that teens have been incarcerated in Rikers Island.

I first read 'Madame Bovary' in my teens or early twenties.

I felt I had a very innocent childhood and I feel privileged by that. But as an adult, I know that there were people who didn't have that. There are a lot of teens who haven't had as easy a childhood as me, and having literature that explores these "darker" parts helps relieve the burden and stress they may be feeling. As a writer, there is often a temptation to draw back when we write for teens - to preserve their innocence. But the reality is, if someone has already had that innocence taken in their life, then not writing about it is just brushing it under the rug.

We do stigmatise teens a lot and see them as scary and alien.