Famous Adolescent Quotes & Sayings

I was brought up on a farm in Southwest France, eating farm-fresh produce three times a day. It was paradise on Earth, and it shaped my eating habits and my sense of taste. — Alain Ducasse

Yes. To write a novel is to risk my sanity. The deeper I get into the suffering and conflict of the characters, into the very situations and thoughts and feelings that make the novel worthwhile, the worse I feel, and the more likely I am to be severely depressed when the book is finished. There is no avoiding this: it is the result of attempting to tell all you know, to reach for the stars, to write what matters. — Anne Rice

As I've gotten older, I've become attracted to things that have substance. — Seann William Scott

Your patience will be rewarded. — Alton Brown

The United States has long thought of itself as the land of infinite plenty, and historically we did have abundant resources. But now we are gradually exhausting our fisheries, our topsoil, our water. On top of that, we're coming to the end of world resources. — Jared Diamond

The world was so much more forgiving of strength when it took on the appearance of weakness. — Robin Wasserman

The words are so full of smoke and mirrors that it's impossible to find a real person behind them. — Gayle Forman

I'll probably be popped off by some loony. — John Lennon

Everyone seems to want to be somewhere they aren't. Choose to be where you are right now and you will be happier than 90 percent of humankind. — Ernie J Zelinski

I turn away with fright and horror from the lamentable evil of functions which do not have derivatives. — Charles Hermite

Whenever you're sitting across from some important person, always picture him sitting there in a suit of long red underwear. That's the way I always operated in business. — Joseph P. Kennedy

I'm a New York businessman. — John Catsimatidis

The Lord has told me that the last generation before His final coming will consist of His choicest children since the creation of the earth. But you will face a world filled with much pain and evil. Men ... will gain great power over God's children. Youth such as yourselves will have a great responsibility to build up a pure and undefiled people in the midst of all this pain. — Chris Heimerdinger

I only write about stuff that's happened to me.. stuff I can't get past personally. Luckily, I'm quite self-destructive. — Amy Winehouse