#teenage

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

Every time an adult is going to write something for a teenager and you don't have, physically, a person who is that, you are always going to be a little off. ↗

— Zoe Saldana

#always #every #every time #going #little

My teenage years were spent trying to look like Rod Stewart - I ended up looking like Dave Hill from Slade. ↗

— Tony Parsons

#ended #hill #i #like #look

Gay teenagers are four times as likely to attempt suicide as straight ones. I wish they knew that there's nothing wrong with them; that they are just a different shade of normal. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#different #four #gay #i #i wish

Led Zeppelin has been there through three generations of teenage angst. And there's a generation of kids now who won't know it, post-Linkin Park. ↗

— Robert Plant

#been #generation #generations #kids #know

America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#autonomy #between #characterized #conflict #country

When I was a teenager, I was like, 'Something is wrong with me. I don't fit in. I'm not like everybody else.' So, I always knew that I wanted to explore and move on, but it was completely unexpected, the way it happened. ↗

— Noomi Rapace

#completely #else #everybody #everybody else #explore

I was a punk rocker when I was a teenager. I wanted to look like Nancy Spungen. I had dyed blonde hair and lots of piercings. ↗

— Noomi Rapace

#blonde hair #dyed #had #hair #i

I'd like a pop-up magazine with 45 articles on Russell Crowe. I'm like a teenager. I'd have 'Teen Beat' if I could, for grown-ups. ↗

— Caroline Rhea

#beat #could #crowe #grown-ups #i