Teen Quotes

Reducing teen pregnancy and birth is one of the most effective ways of reducing child poverty in the country.

If teen girls see their role model smoking, they will think it's alright for them to smoke, too. Most teenagers are looking at the immediate future. They're not looking 10-30 years down the road.

She's really nice, a teen queen, a fashion enthusiast. She wears everything she likes.

The audience for the magazine was getting younger, predominantly pre-teen, as teenagers migrated to new platforms to satisfy their interest in music.

Teen-agers don't need less sleep the older they get. They still need as much sleep as they did when they were pre-teens, ... We, as a society, are asking them to sleep at the wrong time.

The less money they have, the less they'll spend in malls and teen stores like Hot Topic and Abercrombie & Fitch.

As a parent of a teen, I'd rather wait five minutes for my son to pull over to a safe location than to be on the phone with him when he T-bones another car.

I tell parents, you know, if you're worried about your child's safety and they're a teen-ager, you need to be worried about them driving a car, because that's the thing that's most likely to take their life.

'I Still Know What You Did Last Summer' is going for the 'Scream' audience, ... They want teen-agers who are just hungry for another horror movie.

They do something one day each week that can help them get a summer job later on. (Teen Challenge) is something that will give them valuable resources. No only do they have fun but they gain experience through the program as well.

It's going to vary from kid to kid, ... You want to minimize distractions, including cell phones and other teen passengers, minimize nighttime driving, and make sure they are wearing seatbelts.

We want to cover social issues, dieting, clothing (and) teen suicide and depression. Some of the girls involved in the show feel that the middle and high school years can be pretty tough when it comes to making friends.

Thanks to unique circumstances -- a great deal of disposable income paired with fewer recurring debts -- the teen segment tends to have a much bolder attitude toward spending than does the general population.

In healthy relationships we encourage the best in each other. In some of these teen relationships we're not seeing that. ... A lot of these abusive relationships are very obsessive.

These laws have little to do with the problem of teen pregnancy. I think the laws work best simply as protectors of vulnerable populations.

[This is especially true for teens who post sexy profiles.] They may hook up with a teen their own age, ... But there's also ample evidence these are hunting grounds for older men.

This settlement will allow us to expand anti-smoking education efforts among children, which is crucial, ... We know that teen-agers who smoke cigarettes are 22 times more likely to use cocaine than their non-smoking peers.

It was a good teen bonding experience.

We do know there's about 150 kids on any given night on the streets in Tucson ... teen homelessness affects everyone.

It sort of started with this idea of doing a teen noir show. The first-person, hard-boiled narrative is inherent in noir. I wanted her to sound like a 17-year-old female Raymond Chandler.

When we talk about teen driver safety, it tends to be viewed as a problem that affects teen drivers. I don't want to de-emphasize the importance of (teenage) casualties, but your mother might be in a car hit by a teen driver.

We need to focus on the effects teen-driver crashes have on others, in addition to the teen drivers themselves.

While we may think of this as being a teen driver problem, it really affects a much broader audience.

Regardless of what the state law says, parents should not allow their teen to ride with other teen drivers, nor should they be allowed to transport other teens in the first year of driving.

Be vigilant about restricting your children from riding with a first-year teen driver. It's tempting to have different options for getting kids and teens to and from school, a job, sports practices and other events, but the risks are high. Parents who understand the risks should be more willing to personally drive children until teens obtain their full licenses or have gained enough driving experience to make them feel comfortable with transporting others.