TEENAGERS QUOTES III
quotations about teenagers
Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.
J. B. PRIESTLEY
attributed, Think, vol. 36, 1970
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
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!
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
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
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
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
It's obvious teenagers are created, invented, manufactured, and armed for the descension that they'll inflict on society until adulthood snatches the rug out from under them. They are obviously not born.
LEON SEGERS JR.
One Parent's Story
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
Teenagers are people too!
JOYCE MEYER
Teenagers Are People Too!
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
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
When teenagers aren't turning like weathervanes in a high wind, they're as stiff as Puritans.
STEPHEN KING
Full Dark, No Stars
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
Teenagers. Everything is so apocalyptic.
KAMI GARCIA
Beautiful Creatures
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
Teenagers don't have the psychological or cognitive maturity to handle sex, regardless of what adults in our culture say. And they certainly can't handle sex with multiple partners. Depression occurs by un-grieved losses and the truth is, sex for teen boys and girls causes many losses on many levels.
MEG MEEKER
"Teenagers and the STD nobody is talking about", Mercatornet, May 31, 2017
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
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