This collection holds 136 teenage years quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Tommy Kirk, Finty Williams and Dasha Zhukova.

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I consider my teenage years as being desperately unhappy.

I spent most of my teenage years in the National Theatre.

I'm quite disappointed that I'll never relive my teenage years.

You might say I was a passive atheist through my teenage years.

I went through my awkward teenage years. I don't want to go back.

I think the most important part of the teenage years is wondering.

My mom's mission my entire teenage years was just to save my life.

The teenage years are ridiculously crucial and hard and, um, awkward.

I've always been a big fan of Stephen King, especially in my teenage years.

My dad liked a lot of Motown, but I didn't listen to it until my teenage years.

I spent the majority of my teenage years in hospitals, rehabs and halfway houses.

I was 12 when my father passed, so I didn't have a father during my teenage years.

Boys do cry, but I don't think I shed a tear for a good chunk of my teenage years.

Men fill up their heads and drawers and sheds with stuff from their teenage years.

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

My dad grew up in Nicaragua in his teenage years, then immigrated to the United States.

I didn't have any relationships in my teenage years, as I felt I was not attractive enough.

As a little girl, I used to write stories, but by my teenage years, I got out of the habit.

I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.

The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.

I am really very fond of Indian classical music though I have spent my teenage years in Bahrain.

Throughout my whole teenage years, I had zero confidence and had to build it from the bottom up.

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

I write for teens partially to work out whatever it was that I needed to from my own teenage years.

I was raised in New York and then moved to Miami in my teenage years, returning to New York later on.

Comedy helped me out in my teenage years. It saw me through puberty and helped me to deal with dating.

I had a very happy childhood, happy teenage years and I was famous by the time I was 22. A charmed life.

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

No one escapes the teenage years without a lot of challenges. I had many. I was awkward. Petrified of boys.

I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football.

I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years.

If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.

We lived by the water, and I was a pretty normal kid until my teenage years; then I dyed my hair pink and spiraled out of control.

I really disliked Philadelphia society - really, deeply disliked it. I spent a lot of my teenage years writing poetry attacking it.

As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was also in love with sailing.

I was so thrilled that I was having a girl, because I just am so girly myself, but I think the teenage years are going to be very interesting.

The relationship between parents and children who live together is a growing one, and it shifts every day, especially during the teenage years.

A lot of people do that kind of nostalgia stuff believing that they were very happy in their teenage years, but that's probably just an illusion.

My teenage years were exactly what they were supposed to be. Everybody has their own path. It's laid out for you. It's just up to you to walk it.

I think the premise of somebody trying to recreate a night from their teenage years stuck with me as something potentially very tragically comic.

Throughout my teenage years or whatever, I've been so uncomfortable, or I've made mistakes and I've felt like I'm the only one who has done that.

I spent my teenage years in Paris when my dad was stationed there, and I'd look at women in their forties and think, 'That's the age I want to be.'

I think most of my childhood, adolescence, and teenage years, I was struggling to feel validated - which led to a lot of my career choices as well.

During my teenage years as an Islamist recruiter, I moved to live in self-contained communities in the London boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets.

The person you are at 13 or 17 is not the person you are at 30, 40, or 50. Everyone old enough to look back on his or her teenage years knows this.

Teenage years are all about crushes: crushes so deep you wanted to inhabit the other person, be inside their skin, see the world through their eyes.

I was on the Internet a lot during my teenage years, and I think the influence of that kind of textuality on my writing has been pretty significant.

During my teenage years, I rebelled and ate everything under the sun, but when I was 18 or 19, I became vegetarian-focused and got disgusted by meat.

From the big mountains in the north to the valleys in the south, all through my childhood and teenage years, my family would always holiday in Wales.

I was an only child for 15 years and then this lovely present, Fred, came along. It was great - it meant I had my teenage years with a little one around.

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