TEENAGERS QUOTES III
quotations about teenagers
Teenagers are exquisitely sensitive to the social norms of their peers. If they see cool older teenagers scooping ice cream during their freshman summer, they'll really look forward to a job scooping ice cream during their sophomore summer. But any social feedback loop can spin both ways.
DEREK THOMPSON
"Teenagers Have Stopped Getting Summer Jobs--Why?", The Atlantic, June 9, 2017
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
I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.
ROBERT CORMIER
attributed, The Ultimate Book of Quotations
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
Remember, teenagers are beginning to think abstractly and in logical sequence. They are examining the beliefs with which they grew up and are deciding their own value systems. Parents who wish to influence this process must learn to be teachers rather than preachers.
GARY D. CHAPMAN & ROSS CAMPBELL
The 5 Love Languages of Teenagers
Teenagers are people too!
JOYCE MEYER
Teenagers Are People Too!
Buddhism teaches that suffering is inevitable, but that suffering, like everything else in this crazy life, is impermanent. Things suck, but not forever. Buddha must have had a teenage daughter.
ERIN SMITH
"This too shall pass, I hope", Winchester Sun, June 12, 2017
A lot of adults are scared of what their teenagers are doing online even though they have no idea of what this is most of the time.
FELIX MURRAY
"What teenagers do on the internet: an insider's guide", TES, June 8, 2017
One of the reasons the teenage years are so agonizing is that in most societies, particularly ours, the adolescent is emotionally neither fish nor fowl.
HERBERT STREAN & LUCY FREEMAN
Our Wish to Kill: The Murder in All Our Hearts
Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves.
VIRGINIA SATIR
attributed, The Ultimate Book of Quotations
Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.
J. B. PRIESTLEY
attributed, Think, vol. 36, 1970
When teenagers aren't turning like weathervanes in a high wind, they're as stiff as Puritans.
STEPHEN KING
Full Dark, No Stars
Our teenagers are learning from us even while they're rebelling against us. They're especially sensitive and critical of any contradictions between what we say and what we do, and they seem almost to take pleasure in noticing any inconsistency. Also, they can be practically allergic to our most informative lectures, regardless of how well intentioned we might be. Therefore, we can't transmit our values by words alone; we have to inspire them through our behavior. We, ourselves, are the model we present to our teenagers.
DOROTHY NOLTE & RACHEL HARRIS
introduction, Teenagers Learn what They Live: Parenting to Inspire Integrity & Independence
Among our internet surfing, Snapchat-addicted populace, are warriors. Many of today's teenagers are defying stereotypes, fighting tooth and nail for our futures. Some teenagers are more civically active in one month than most adults are in a lifetime.
JAMIE MARGOLIN
"While President Trump withdraws from the Paris Climate Agreement, teenagers like myself are fighting the climate crisis head-on", West Seattle Herald, June 4, 2017
A monster. You and your friends, all of you. Pretty monsters. It's a stage all girls go through. If you're lucky you get through it without doing any permanent damage to yourself or anyone else.
KELLY LINK
Pretty Monsters
Teenagers. Everything is so apocalyptic.
KAMI GARCIA
Beautiful Creatures
Life to a teenager is unwritten and they have a goddamned Sharpie in their hand and they aren't afraid to use it.
M. BLAZONED
"The Beautiful Maddening Contradiction of Teenagers", Huffington Post, January 31, 2017
We leave such a trail of bodies through our teens and twenties that it's hard to tell which one is us. How many versions do we abandon over the years?
DAN CHAON
Among the Missing
In biblical times, they used to stone a few thirteen-year-olds with some regularity, which helped keep the others quiet and at home. The mothers were usually in the first row of stone-throwers, and had to be restrained.
ANNE LAMOTT
Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith