Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.

When you become a teenager, you step onto a bridge. You may already be on it. The opposite shore is adulthood. Childhood lies behind. The bridge is made of wood. As you cross, it burns behind you

The desperate need to belong is perhaps never as great as during adolescence. Advertisers seek to communicate with teenagers by frequently using that powerful appeal.

Oh, I’m sure we could talk them into letting us in for nothing,” Marco said. “Just tell them we’re Animorphs.” “Tell them we’re what?” Rachel asked. “Idiot teenagers with a death wish,” Marco said. “Animorphs.” I tried the word out. It sounded okay.

I was a teenager when ‘Miami Vice’ came out, and that was such a huge show.

I have a nice smile, pretty lips, and big round cheeks. They help me look like a teenager.

I don’t know any teenager with a positive attitude.

I was a teenager when 9/11 happened. And I really was uncomfortable with many members of our community feeling like they had to strip themselves of their identity in order to mitigate the violence and the fears that they were feeling.

The teens are emotionally unstable and pathic. It is a natural impulse to experience hot and perfervid psychic states, and it is characterized by emotionalism. We see here the instability and fluctuations now so characteristic. The emotions develop by contrast and reaction into the opposite.

Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

One of my favorite things about playing “Avery Jennings” on Dog with a Blog (2012) is that I get to play a real teenager who deals with everyday issues.

When you’re a little kid, you don’t see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.

Although I broke a lot of laws as a teenager, I straightened out immediately upon turning eighteen, when I realized the state had a legal right to execute me.

They’re teenagers, man. They’re really stupid, so you should blend right in.