TEENAGERS QUOTES III
quotations about teenagers
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
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
Sadly, American teenagers are to a weightless vacuum as seat cushions are to polyurethane foam.
MARISHA PESSL
Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Teenagers are people too!
JOYCE MEYER
Teenagers Are People Too!
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
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
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
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
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
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
When teenagers aren't turning like weathervanes in a high wind, they're as stiff as Puritans.
STEPHEN KING
Full Dark, No Stars
Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.
J. B. PRIESTLEY
attributed, Think, vol. 36, 1970
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
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
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. 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