TEENAGERS QUOTES II
quotations about teenagers
A teenager is someone who is well prepared for a zombie attack but not ready for tomorrow's math test.
ANONYMOUS
Real teenage boys aren't like characters in the books you read. They smell funny and are obsessed with video games and say dumb things. They're still learning, just like you.
STACEY JAY
Juliet Immortal
I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.
ROB LOWE
attributed, The Ultimate Book of Quotations
She had been a teenager once, and she knew that, despite the apparent contradictions, a person's teenage years lasted well into their fifties.
DEREK LANDY
Mortal Coil
It is upsetting to many parents that their teen-agers introduce them to their friends as encyclopedia salesmen who are just passing through ... if they introduce them at all. I have some acquaintances who hover in dark parking lots, enter church separately and crouch in furnace rooms so their teen-agers will not be accused of having parents.
ERMA BOMBECK
Just Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own!
A teenager is a whiz who can operate the latest computer without a lesson but can't make a bed.
SHO
Twitter post, January 24, 2011
The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen.
RAY BRADBURY
Dandelion Wine
A teenager is a connoisseur of two kinds of music: Loud and Very Loud.
KACEY KEVIN
Twitter post, June 24, 2011
Jealousy plays a huge role in the teenage years. If you don't have a "thigh gap" you're considered fat. If you don't get straight A's, you're an idiot. Constantly trying to live up to the movies. Trying to find a dreamy guy with the best body, dreamy face, most sincere personality and vice versa. Simply living life the wrong way.
CASSIE KING
"What It's Like To Be A Teenager Today", Huffington Post, May 24, 2017
People think teenagers are idiots because when they were our age they didn't have the resources we have.
EMILY MEEHAN
"Direct provision is hell and nobody does anything about it", The Irish Times, June 12, 2017
I was between
A man and a boy, A hobble-de-hoy,
A fat, little, punchy concern of sixteen.
RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM
The Ingoldsby Legends
Teenagers are in the grip of their own Acquired Self created by society through TV, internet, magazines and video games. Their Acquired Self is taught to disobey, rebel and not follow rules under the illusion of independence and freedom. Meanwhile, Society's collective Acquired Self tells your Acquired Self to discipline your teenagers with rules. At the same time, it tells teenagers to rebel against the rules. Interesting, isn't it? Society's collective Acquired Self plays the trick of Divide and Conquer. In this way, it escapes its own detection and continues to thrive in you and your child. Ironically, neither of you sees the tricks of Society's collective Acquired Self. Your Acquired Self and your teenager's Acquired Self continue to tangle with each other, leading to frustrations, disappointments and anger.
SARFRAZ ZAIDI
Stress Management for Teenagers, Parents and Teachers
Sadly, American teenagers are to a weightless vacuum as seat cushions are to polyurethane foam.
MARISHA PESSL
Special Topics in Calamity Physics
We need to move past the stereotype that teenagers are a menace: most teens are great kids and they are just looking for some stimulation.
JUSTIN COULSON
"School holiday hell: Out-of-control teens turn shopping centres into war zones", Daily Telegraph, April 21, 2017
Like nearly everyone, teenagers behave as society expects them to behave.
STEWART ROSS
"Top 10 myths about teenagers", The Guardian, September 28, 2014
We need to understand and accept that our teenagers are on an emotional roller coaster. Just as toddlers regularly fall down and we encourage them to get back up again, so will our teenagers fall into the depths of despair and need to be encouraged to pull themselves together and keep going. We need to find a way to help them make the shift from being caught up in their emotional dramas to figuring out what they're going to do about them.
DOROTHY NOLTE & RACHEL HARRIS
introduction, Teenagers Learn what They Live: Parenting to Inspire Integrity & Independence
Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.
FRAN LEBOWITZ
Social Studies
In general, teenagers today are way better people than we were at their age. I grew up in the 70s and 80s, affectionately known as the John Hughes movie years. Without the advances of holding a computer in our hands at all time, our world was small, as small as our town, as small as the importance of your Sixteen Candles version of Jake Ryan liking you, or dealing with that d-bag popular kid Steff from Pretty in Pink. Sure we had problems, but nothing an all-day Breakfast Club detention couldn't fix. And our biggest contribution to helping humanity was buying the single of "We are the World," and, even then, most of us taped it off the radio.
M. BLAZONED
"The Beautiful Maddening Contradiction of Teenagers", Huffington Post, January 31, 2017
One of the most powerful myths surrounding adolescence is that raging hormones cause teenagers to "go mad" or "lose their minds." That's simply false. Hormones do increase during this period, but it is not the hormones that determine what goes on in adolescence. We now know that what adolescents experience is primarily the result of changes in the development of the brain. Knowing about these changes can help life flow more smoothly for you as an adolescent or for you as an adult with adolescents in your world.
DANIEL J. SIEGEL
Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain
Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.
BEN LINDSEY
attributed, The Ultimate Book of Quotations