teenager quotes

12 quotes

I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.

Lady Gaga

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.

Greta Thunberg

When I was 16… I worked in a pet store. And they fired me because… they had three snakes in there, and one day I braided them.

Steven Wright

When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese.

Haruki Murakami

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

Haruki Murakami

I think, because I started Virgin when I was a teenager, it has become a part of me, like my family, and I am motivated by ambition for it, almost as if it were a child.

Richard Branson

At 15 years of age, I left school to practice the profession of Office Boy in a business firm in Salem, Oregon.

Herbert Hoover

When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines.

Margaret Atwood

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

J. K. Rowling

When I was fourteen and first started going out, I always wanted to be the opposite of everyone else. So I would go to the club in a polo T-shirt and pants and sneakers and a hat on backward, just so I would not be dressed like other girls.

Rihanna

In fact, you couldn’t give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.

J. K. Rowling

I remember the first time I heard a teenager say ‚LOL.‘ Just what? But it means ‚laugh.‘ Why don’t you just laugh? What are you doing?

J. K. Rowling