Quotes About Teenagers

Teenagers ultimately don't mind belonging to a group, because there's always the opportunity to eventually become someone new. The elderly, by definition, are running out of opportunities for reinvention.

For all teenagers, the Internet offers a periscope to the outside world, but it's particularly important for students who are unable to find themselves represented and understood in their immediate surroundings.

Wars are fought by teenagers, you realize that. They really ought to be fought by the politicians and old people who start these wars.

Relationships change even more than people. It's like two people changing. It's exponentially more volatile. Especially two teenagers.

You don't want any of your Anchors being members of the opposite sex you're attracted to," Dr. Minerva says. "Relationships change even more than people. It's like two people changing. It's exponentially more volatile. Especially two teenagers.

Gossip is one thing, hurtful gossip is completely another, and even in high school we weren't THAT mean.

On the drive we talked easily, but we did make a small detour. After pulling into a rest stop, we made out like teenagers.

I have this theory about us. When we started writing our own songs, we were 17 years old. When you're 17, you write songs for other 17-year-olds. We stopped growing musically when we were 17. We still write songs for 17-year-olds.

At my high school, there were always kids carrying acoustic guitars around, which is why I named my band the Mountain Goats. I didn't want to seem like one of those guys who brought his guitar to the party whether you asked him to or not.

I've read the stories. Teenagers committing suicide because all they can see ahead of them is shame and disgrace. Kids running away from home because they feel like they've list their future. Well, I'm not having that happen to Torin.

I've never asked him but I'm sure he has a fairly stringent policy about random teenagers lurking in his shrubbery.

I see that even as the world plunges into darkness and peril, you two stand around discussing your love lives. Teenagers.

I get particularly depressed by the way teenagers are portrayed in the media. They are massively underestimated. They are bright, intelligent people who are given less and less opportunity. They are an ignored generation.

You've got two sets of teenagers in England - the mods and the rockers. The rockers are motorcycle addicts. The mods dress like we do. We wear four-button jackets, cuban heel boots, shirts of our own design, with high collars and a tab underneath the collar.

Everybody's gone through high school; everybody understands that dynamic. Some people have a great time, and some people don't have a great time. My high school experience was not the greatest. I wasn't necessarily bullied, but I was one of those guys that just goes along, and I didn't really feel connected to many of the social cliques.

I love 'Heathers.' I love 'Spring Breakers.'

Eleven : *walks up to mike* Mike : 0-0 Eleven : I DUMP YOUR ASS. Mike : *surprised, sad, taken aback, broken-hearted, and a bunch of other negative feelings*

Going back to the films I made in the nineties, they might not have been the most thought-provoking movies, but there was always this conscious thing of knowing that it was fourteen-year-old surfers who were really into it, and so I've wanted to be responsible with that.

I don't want to be a substitute teacher who forces teenagers to shake hands with the dead. All they want to do is flirt and joke and get through the day.

What came first--the music or the misery? Did I listen to music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person? People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands-- literally thousands-- of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.

When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.           Back

When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.

Girls, to her mind, suffered an agony of suspense and an embarrassing passivity during prom season.

she's paranoid about having 'strange teenagers' around Cousin Reg." He lowered his voice. "Especially white kids. You white boys are all school shooters and shit.