#teen

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

— Dan DeCarlo

#books #first #gave #her #i

And I was the only black kid in my school for almost all of my childhood, until I was a teenager. So imagine, if you will, being 6 feet tall by third grade, so essentially being a living maypole. ↗

— Aisha Tyler

#being #black #childhood #essentially #feet

There's no such thing as a teenager that listens to a single word their father says. ↗

— Justin Townes Earle

#listens #says #single #single word #such

You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer. ↗

— Black Elk

#anything #came #dance #during #eighteenth

Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice. ↗

— David Elkind

#adolescence #chance #childhood #choice #friendships

Only recently, during the nineteenth century, and then only in Europe, do we meet forms of the state which have been created by a deliberate national feeling. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#century #created #deliberate #during #europe

I wasn't going to have fun doing a teen movie again. ↗

— Heath Ledger

#doing #fun #going #have fun #i

In the seventeenth year of my age my mother died. ↗

— William Lilly

#died #mother #seventeenth #year

For a long time I wanted to be a comic strip artist but when I started doing them in my teens they were getting really elaborate with tons of poses and a lot of information. ↗

— Craig McCracken

#comic #comic strip #doing #elaborate #getting

I grew up mostly with classical, big band, and a lot of Irish music - I really didn't start listening to rock and roll until I was maybe sixteen. ↗

— Moira Kelly

#big #big band #classical #grew #i