Walt Whitman
Poet, Essayist
"I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world."
Teens quotes
Teens
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Mary Oliver
Poet
"Look, I want to love this world as though it's the last chance I'm ever going to get to be alive and know it."
Kurt Cobain
Musician, Singer-Songwriter
"After I reached my teens I decided I didn't want to hang out with anyone. I couldn't handle the stupidity."
Victor Hugo
Novelist, Poet
"When a person opens a book, he can never be in prison."
Maya Angelou
Poet, Memoirist
"Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity."
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"Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means."
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"March to the beat of your own drummer."
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"The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others."
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"But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail"
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"A mouth of no distinction but well practiced, before I entered my teens, in irony. For what is irony but the repository of hurt? And what is hurt but the repository of hope?"
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"When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD."
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"The only place I'm recognized is at the mall, because that's where the teens are."
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"A young woman in her teens has about 300,000 eggs in her ovaries. By the time she is menopausal, none are left."
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"Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others."
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"I became conflicted in my late teens."
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"When I was young, Stephen Hawking wasn't the world's most famous physicist. The fame didn't arrive until the publication of "A Brief History of Time," by which time I was in my late teens. When I was a child, he was well known among physicists, but they are a fairly select, serious bunch, not much given to celebrity idolizing."
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"We do stigmatise teens a lot and see them as scary and alien."
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"You get into your teens, now they can't hold you back. You jump to the next number, or even a few ahead."
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"You're jeans are full of crap. You're full of beans, you're in you teens. You've lost your mama's road map."
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