TEENAGERS QUOTES
quotations about teenagers
The older your teenagers are, the more they will have their own ideas and opinions. If you take them seriously, rather than assuming your ideas are always best and the only ones, you will begin to grow a relationship that will extend beyond the hormone-group years.
KEVIN LEMAN
Have a New Teenager by Friday
When you're a teenager--and even when you're older--lots of people will try to tell you what to think and feel. Try to stand still inside all of that and hear your own voice. It's yours and only yours, it's unique and worth of your attention.
JENNIFER DONNELLY
interview, "The Wait for Jennifer Donnelly's REVOLUTION is Almost Over...", Random Acts of Reading, October 7, 2010
Teenagers are a mix of jaded and hopeful, stupid and smart, disinterested and passionate, clueless and driven, helpless and powerful, unsure of themselves and totally sure. They have no answers except for knowing everything.
M. BLAZONED
"The Beautiful Maddening Contradiction of Teenagers", Huffington Post, January 31, 2017
Don't be afraid of your teenagers. They smell fear faster than you notice their newly acquired body odor.
K. C. PROCTER
"14 Reasons Not To Dread The Teenage Years", Scary Mommy, August 26, 2016
When you become a teenager, you step onto a bridge. You may already be on it. The opposite shore is adulthood. Childhood lies behind. The bridge is made of wood. As you cross, it burns behind you.
GAIL CARSON LEVINE
Writing Magic
The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don't have to pay taxes -- naturally, no one wants to live any other way.
JUDITH MARTIN
Miss Manners' Guide for the Turn-of-the-Millennium
We underestimate teenagers at our peril. Even the dismissive thing out on the street--look at what they're wearing. Then we'll hear stories about how a toddler fell on the tracks, and it's often a teenager who comes to the rescue and walks away because he or she doesn't want any credit. I recognize it because I've written books for teenagers--it's basically that they feel things more than adults do. They want things more than you think. They want things with greater depth than you think they do. Teenagers have got a lot of soul that adults have forgotten they have within themselves.
MARKUS ZUSAK
"On Top of His Game: SLJ Interviews Margaret A. Edwards Award Winner Markus Zusak", School Library Journal, June 2, 2014
Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.
CAROL BURNETT
attributed, The Ultimate Book of Quotations
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.
DOUG LARSON
attributed, Raising Kids That Succeed
A teenager is a budding beauty who never smiles until her braces come off.
CHUCK U. FARLEY
Twitter post, June 16, 2014
The best damn part about teenagers is that they feel immortal. At 46 years old, I'd like to smoke a little of that crack.
M. BLAZONED
"The Beautiful Maddening Contradiction of Teenagers", Huffington Post, January 31, 2017
A hallmark of teenagers is the need to establish their independence as they forge a stable indentity for themselves. A tall order for any age--and one that most adults have yet to fulfill--yet teenagers think they can and must fulfill this quest, and usually in a semester's time. Few engage in this quest in an orderly manner. As in many other areas of their lives, teenagers are apt to exaggerate and push too hard in their insistence upon independence, especially with their parents. This is because the best way they know of to establish a sense of independence is to push away the people they have been dependent upon for so long: mom and dad.
MICHAEL RIERA
Staying Connected to Your Teenager
Teenagers can't tell you in consistent ways why they do the things they do. Expecting a logical and well-reasoned response to the Why question is like trying to squeeze water from a rock. There is, however, a rational explanation for all this. Along with their bodies, teenagers' brains are in the midst of huge growth spurts, specifically in the corpus callosum and the prefrontal lobes, the areas of the brain responsible for mature judgment and decisionmaking skills. Until the brain finishes this growth spurt, teenagers' impulses are way ahead of their abilities to control them.
MICHAEL RIERA
Staying Connected to Your Teenager
Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.
DAVE BARRY
attributed, The Ultimate Book of Quotations
Every teenager in the world feels like that, feels broken or out of place, different somehow, royalty mistakenly born into a family of peasants.
CASSANDRA CLARE
City of Bones
If you liked being a teenager, there's something wrong with you.
STEPHEN KING
attributed, "The Adirondack Dreamer: Stephen King and I Agree"
Teenagers are a puzzle, and not just to their parents. When kids pass from childhood to adolescence their mortality rate doubles, despite the fact that teenagers are stronger and faster than children as well as more resistant to disease. Parents and scientists alike abound with explanations. It is tempting to put it down to plain stupidity: Teenagers have not yet learned how to make good choices. But that is simply not true. Psychologists have found that teenagers are about as adept as adults at recognizing the risks of dangerous behavior. Something else is at work.
CARL ZIMMER
"The Brain: The Trouble With Teens", Discover Magazine, March 24, 2011
Raising a teenager is so much like raising a toddler that you might feel as though you have regressed a decade and started the process all over.
TYLER JACOBSON
"5 Ways a Large Toddler is Just Like Your Teen", The Good Men Project, June 10, 2017
Being a teenager is so much about extremes -- everything is black and white, with very little room for nuance or reflection. You're coming up against the adult world and trying to navigate your place in it. It was exhausting, even in fiction, to remember feeling that way.
EMMA CLINE
interview, The Guardian, May 21, 2017
I was miserable, of course, for I was seventeen.
WILLIAM MATTHEWS
"Mingus at the Showplace", Time and Money