TEENAGERS QUOTES III
quotations about teenagers
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
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
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
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
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
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
Like nearly everyone, teenagers behave as society expects them to behave.
STEWART ROSS
"Top 10 myths about teenagers", The Guardian, September 28, 2014
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
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
As I've said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager.
JOE BOB BRIGGS
attributed, The Ultimate Book of Quotations
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
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
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
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
When teenagers aren't turning like weathervanes in a high wind, they're as stiff as Puritans.
STEPHEN KING
Full Dark, No Stars
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
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
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