Quotes About Teenagers

Youth groups can be vehicles for Christian fellowship, but unless teenagers learn to share one another's suffering (not to mention the suffering of people outside the group), Christian youth groups can devolve into gatherings of like-minded friends.

What if the blasé religiosity of most American teenagers is not the result of poor communication but the result of excellent communication of a watered-down gospel so devoid of God's self-giving love in Jesus Christ, so immune to the sending love of the Holy Spirit that it might not be Christianity at all?

The constant exposure to their friends' carefully curated portrayals of their lives generates feelings of inadequacy—especially during periods when they're already feeling low—and for teenagers, it provides a cruelly effective way to be publicly excluded.

No matter what their choice of music, in the lives of too many teenagers, recognition is more meaningful than accomplishment

I didn't point out that Courtney and I were hardly BFFs. In Mom's world everyone under the age of eighteen was friends with everyone else, like we were all part of some secret society of minors.

I'm not trying to—What do teenagers say nowadays?" he asked my grandmother."Get all up in her biznez," Nana said.Without cracking a smile."That's right," he replied. "We're not trying to get all up in your biznez, Ali.

Then the howling started. It was either hellhounds or teenagers, and she suspected the former.

My dad told me all about it. Wildness comes over teenagers like a disease and they go around kissing all over the place.

Teenagers learn best by doing things, they learn best in teams and they learn best by doing things for real — all the opposite of what mainstream schooling actually does.

Hey, here is the corpse of something big, scary, and magic that used to eat people when it was alive. I think I'll go over and poke it with a stick. That would be awesome. I sighed. Teenagers. Some things even post-Shift Atlanta couldn't change.

Vampires," Sean said, the way parents usually said "teenagers" when their children were out of earshot.

My daughter wasn't into that type of rock music and kind of played it off. But then these teenage boys started coming around, and Led Zeppelin, I don't know, it became reinvented. Now she's very proud of her grandfather.

They go on about banning size zero, but I think Hollywood stars are the worst perpetrators. Most models are naturally long and gangly, while a lot of these young girls in Hollywood have gone on extreme diets. Their concave chests and bony arms are terrifying. It's scary to think that normal teenagers are tempted to copy them.

In high school for prom, I asked my girlfriend - we were both into horror movies - by dressing up as a zombie. I had a bloody t-shirt and I spray-painted a giant question mark on my t-shirt and had people hold bloody sings saying, 'Dying to go to prom with you.'

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy teenagers?

Turkeys know their names, come when you call, and are totally affectionate. They're better than teenagers.

My first job in TV was hosting this young teen magazine show, and all these high school teenagers showed up from all over Sacramento, California, and they chose four of us to host the show, two boys and two girls. And of the two girls, I was kind of the perky smart one and the other girl was the pretty one.

It was a blast. I was doing everything that teenagers do and everything people in their twenties do. I was playing as hard as I was working, which was an effort to really balance my life.

It does not matter what film you're making. If you're young and there's romance in the movie, it's compared to 'Twilight'.

Teenagers are a great audience and they are fearless about asking what they want to know.

We teach teens what we think they ought to know, and we never tell them what they want to know.

The thing that bums me out about 'The Real World' is I don't want to believe that teenagers are that stupid.

Their kisses had gone on and on—cheeks, neck, mouth, and tongue. Seconds . . . minutes . . . hours. Then they'd start all over again. Adults were too fixed on the final goal to take that kind of time. Only teenagers afraid of the next step exchanged kisses that lasted forever.

Everyone inside the barricade is a child. Toddlers to teenagers. Scared and frostbitten. Huddled in groups or rocking numbly on the ground. They aren't being led into the mansion. They're penned in, guarded on all sides by Peacekeepers. I know immediately it's not for their protection. If the Capitol wanted to safeguard them, they'd be down in a bunker somewhere. This is for Snow's protection. The children form his human shield.