No Longer A Teenager Quotes

#1. literature and opera are full of
characters who die for love:
i stay alive for her.
- Excerpt from "No Longer A Teenager

Gerald Locklin

#2. Thought is borne of failure.

Lancelot Law Whyte

#3. It is foolish to be afraid of death. Just think. No more repaired tires on the body vehicle, no more patchwork living.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#4. Death wasn't a movie where the pretty star faded away with a touch of pale makeup and every hair in place.

Soheir Khashoggi

#5. I don't really have time or interest in doing a lot of the crazy things that some of my teenage peers do, mostly because I have such a hectic life that I don't need to add to that chaos by creating my own teenage drama like a lot of teenagers do.

Mikaela Shiffrin

#6. In question-and-answer sessions after a reading or during an interview, I forget the question if I'm giving too long an answer. And at the end, I can't remember any of the questions. The more anxious I am about remembering, the more likely I am to forget.

Floyd Skloot

#7. Conversation can be a learning experience for everyone. I never hesitate to reach out when I'm in over my head, and I'll never hesitate to return the favor.

Mark Mason

#8. Charity you can give even when you haven't got.

Bernard Malamud

#9. He had never been a religious person. Even as a child he had found the notion of an omnipotent creator who punished his crations inconsistently for minor infractions of a vaguely defined moral code to be unthinkable to anyone with an ounce of sense.

Michael Thomas Ford

#10. I'm not saying I'm number 1, oh sorry I lied.. I'm number 1,2,3,4 and 5

KRS-One

#11. The World War demonstrated the importance of Field Artillery. The majority of casualties were inflicted by the arm.

John J. Pershing

#12. Sex is no longer a serious taboo. Teenagers sometimes know more about it than adults.

Alan Watts

#13. After her initial conversion as a teenager, the author writes, "I was sent back into a world that no longer looked familiar to me. I had to relearn how to do everything.

Jen Pollock Michel

#14. The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live.

Armistead Maupin

#15. You must be able to say "I understand," before you can say "I agree," or "I disagree," or "I suspend judgment.

Mortimer J. Adler

#16. Almost everyone I've ever met who overeats is doing so on behalf of an old self (a discouraged child, an unpopular teenager, a self conscious young adult) who no longer exists.

Deepak Chopra

#17. We bring forth weeds when our quick minds lie still.

William Shakespeare

#18. To call it helmet hair was an insult to my helmet.

Jessica Fortunato