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  • Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other. -- Laurence J. Peter
  • A lot of teenagers have parents that are maybe a little too real with them. -- Jennifer Damiano
  • You can never empathize with your parents as a teenager. You just think they're just on another planet. -- Heather Langenkamp
  • When I was a teenager, my parents made me take a part-time job at the local Black Eyed Pea, which was a home-cooked-food family restaurant. -- Ashley Jones
  • Parents are in denial a lot of the time - everybody knows what they did as a teenager, but somehow, when they grow up, it all disappears. -- Nikki Reed
  • A child needs to be listened to and talked to at 3 and 4 and 5 years of age. Parents should not wait for the sophisticated conversation of a teenager. -- Bob Keeshan
  • Being a teenager is chaotic because you're kind of coming into your own, but you're not an adult; you're fighting with your parents over responsibilities and freedom. -- Troian Bellisario
  • All teenagers want to rebel a little and break away. But I think you are always going to want to go back to your parents for that safety they provide. -- Saoirse Ronan
  • My parents were divorced when I was a young teenager, and I was raised by a single mother after that. So, I understand the difficulties that families have. I understand single parenting. -- Michele Bachmann
  • In 1900, the typical American was a boy, not yet a teenager, named John. He lived with his parents and his sisters, Mary and Helen, on a farm in New York or Pennsylvania. -- Bill Dedman
  • I was called a 'CD' by a suicidal teenager, who is alive today because I became her 'Chosen Dad,' who loved her. We all have the potential to re-parent ourselves and others. -- Bernie Siegel
  • I'm still Vanessa from the neighborhood. My parents own the shop, and I'm there all the time, that I worked in when I was a teenager. I have a child from my childhood sweetheart. -- Vanessa Ferlito
  • By the time I was a teenager, my desire to be daring and taste everything got me in trouble. Too often, I was in the company of kids my parents would call 'wild.' -- Marlee Matlin
  • The most important role models should and could be parents and teachers. But that said, once you're a teenager you've probably gotten as much of an example from your parents as you're going to. -- Andrew Shue
  • At 18, I got a publishing deal, so I was like, 'I can do this for real and not go to college.' When I was a teenager, my parents dragged me to a lot of songwriting conventions. -- Meghan Trainor
  • The parents of teenagers would love to have a car that won't go very far or go very fast. They could just cruise around the neighborhood, drive it to school, see their friends, plug it in overnight. -- Clayton Christensen
  • It was all that stuff about taking your parents' car when you're 13, sneaking booze into rock shows and ditching school with your friends. I could relate to that as a former teenager, rather than as a present parent. -- Donal Logue
  • You don't need a foreign policy expert to tell you empty threats and hollow promises don't work. Ask any parent of a rebellious teenager. If you don't make good on the threats, you're asking for worse behavior next time. -- Kathleen Troia McFarland
  • I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly poetry periodical, and as a teenager I was introduced to Denise Levertov, who was an influence. -- Francesca Lia Block
  • If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money. -- Carly Fiorina
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