Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chuck D.

Ever since I was a teenager, I was always kind of, like, checking myself. You know, like, "Come on man, don't get your head all swollen. Life and time itself will give you perspective on what you're doing." So, that's actually what's always been a reminder in my own head.

Christopher Walken

I became an actor by accident. I suppose I figured since I was in musical comedy from the time I was a teenager, I suppose I figured that I'd always been in that world to some extent.

Anne Beatts

I just wanted to fit in as a teenager, but it was hopeless.

Angelina Jolie

My kids will be needing me a lot when they hit their teens. If I know anything about being a teenager. I need to be braced to be spending a lot of time with all six of them and making sure I can be there for when they go through everything.

Anna Kournikova

I don't know what better teenage life you could get than going around the world doing what you love to do.

Anna Kournikova

My manager wants me to dress like a nun and I want to dress like a teenager.

Amy Grant

I started my teenage years singing in churches across America, and finally wound up on a big stage.

Amy Chua

I sort of feel like people are not that honest about their own parenting. Take any teenage household; tell me there is not yelling and conflict.

Anne Northup

A large family and Democrats have a lot in common: teenagers and Democrats are always happy spending other people's money.

Ambrose Bierce

Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery.

Alice Englert

I was raised with adults. I skipped knowing how to interact as a normal teenage person.

Alexander Pope

Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well?

Alex Kapranos

If I was a fan of someone as a teenager, then it's OK for me to feel completely in awe when I meet them.

Dree Hemingway

I remember having to read 'The Old Man and the Sea,' and I didn't want to read it; I didn't want to like Ernest Hemingway. I was being a stubborn teenager.

Drew Carey

I used to go to the library all the time when I was kid. As a teenager, I got a book on how to write jokes at the library, and that, in turn, launched my comedy career.

Dolores Huerta

Especially as a teenager, I was always being racially profiled by the police. You just see all this injustice, and you want to do something about it, but you don't know how.

Dolly Parton

Until I was a teenager, I used red pokeberries for lipstick and a burnt matchstick for eyeliner. I used honeysuckle for perfume.

Dinesh D'Souza

Death is the great wrecking ball that destroys everything. Everything that we have done, everything that we are doing now, and all our plans for the future are completely and irrevocably destroyed when we die. Only teenagers live in that state of temporary insanity when they believe themselves immune from death.

Dave Grohl

I'm obsessed with Led Zeppelin and have been since I was a teenager

Dash Mihok

In the years when teenagers really need to be connected to somebody, they aren't; especially in small towns where kids are bored and look for something to get them going.

Daryl Hall

I was just like a 21st century person waiting to be born, and this is the medium that I thrive in. And I feel stronger now than I did any time since I've been a teenager - I mean, musically, creatively.

Dario Argento

When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe.

Clemence Poesy

In the '80s, I was the only one who didn't watch the shows about teenagers. I had to go over to friends' houses to see them. I still don't have a TV!

Dan Quayle

I could take this home, Marilyn. This is something teenage boys might find of interest.

The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books.

Danielle Fishel

When you first get out of doing a show for a long time where you played a teenager, casting directors and producers all still look at you as being the character that you played for so long.

Daniella Alonso

When I first started, I would go to Weist-Barron, and I studied with Rita Litton and ACTeen. For teenagers, it's a really, really great school. We did a lot of on-camera stuff, so you see yourself and what you do on camera.

Danielle Steel

In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.

Daniel Negreanu

I started out as a teenager I was a snooker player, or pool player. Through that I met some other teenagers that were gamblers, if you will, who started basement games. I was just sort of learning on the go, losing my $10.

Daniel Tammet

I do read a lot, and I think in recent years the ratio between the amount of non-fiction and fiction has tipped quite considerably. I did read fiction as a teenager as well, mostly because I was forced to read fiction, of course, to go through high school.

Daniel Tammet

My autism is a very mild form. It was diagnosed at the age of 25, partly because it wasn't diagnosable as a teenager (this is Asperger's syndrome, specifically). But there were certainly traits within that condition, within the autism spectrum in general, especially at the high functioning end, that I think are best looked at as pluses.

Dane Cook

I was not a silly kid or outgoing. In fact, I suffered from quite a bit of anxiety. I used to have panic attacks when I was a teenager, really incapacitating moments, because I had some phobias.

Dave Lombardo

When I look back, it was a strange period in my life, looking at my childhood and then my teenage years and forming Slayer when I was still 17, not out of high school.