"Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.“

-Ally Condie

posted in Teen

Ally Condie quote on Teen: "Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not." - Aesthetic Wallpaper & Wisdom

Other Quotes by Ally Condie

Discover more inspiring quotes by Ally Condie

"One of the things I've always liked about my husband is he's very good at lots of stuff. He was an English teacher when I met him. He wrote poetry and played the guitar. As time went on, he decided to go into economics, so he's very analytical and mathematical in addition to his artsy side."

-Ally Condie

TeacherView Quote

"The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own."

-Ally Condie

BeautyView Quote

"One of the things I've always liked about my husband is he's very good at lots of stuff. He was an English teacher when I met him. He wrote poetry and played the guitar. As time went on, he decided to go into economics, so he's very analytical and mathematical in addition to his artsy side."

-Ally Condie

PoetryView Quote

"I had really great parents who always gave me lots of opportunity for choice, but I didn't always realize how rare that was for a girl for them to say, 'You can be a mom or have a career or do both or do something we haven't thought of yet.'"

-Ally Condie

"I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."

-Marilyn Monroe

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."

-Robert Frost

Same Category

More quotes in this category

"The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up."

-John C. Maxwell

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

-e. e. cummings

"As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you."

-Fran Lebowitz

"Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock."

-Ben Lindsey

"We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle."

-John Green

"I fell in love with Erica Kane the summer before my freshman year of high school. Like all red-blooded teen American boys, I'd come home from water polo practice and eat a box of Entenmann's Pop'Ems donut holes in front of the TV while obsessively fawning over 'All My Children' and Erica, her clothes, and her narcissistic attitude."

-Andy Cohen