Quotes About Teenagers

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.

By 1930, when Louie was entering his teens, California was enraptured with eugenics, and would ultimately sterilize some twenty thousand people.

Don't mind her," Mel explained. "She's just worried about Finn." Petey tossed her wild hair. "Who says I'm worried?" Mel pressed a palm to her forehead. "Anyone want to adopt a couple of teenagers?" "They're all yours, Sweet Melissa," a man said." "Groovy," said Mel.

On the boardwalk the arcade jukebox plays all night surrounded by teenagers--sometimes twenty bodies deep, bare-skinned and full of energy for the music, for one another, for life, for the little bit of freedom they taste in the salt air and their skin. My father finds his place in this crowd. They are a force together. They don't do drugs. They don't drink. But they do music, and their power comes from their numbers and the thrill of being young on the beach at night.

Curse false-hand-holding boys!

No matter how many years passed or how much responsibility each assumed, they still managed to bicker like bitchy teenagers on a regular basis. In some way, though, each found it comforting; it reminded them how close they really were: Acquaintances were always on their best behavior, but sisters loved each other enough to say anything.

I know hate is a strong word and everything, but its okay: we're teenagers.

I know hate is a strong word and everything, but its okay: we're teenagers.

Lydia has never really had friends, but their parents have never known.

Pearl glanced over her shoulder, in the universal reaction of all teenagers confronted by their parents in a public place

I really loathe [the bumper sticker] 'Proud Parent of a Terrific Kid!' Why not a bumper sticker for the unlucky parents, something like: 'My Fifteen-Year-Old's in Detox and Not Speaking to Any of Us' or 'My Kid Robbed a 7-Eleven and is in a Center for Youthful Offenders.

Parental Predictions. — Any astronomer can predict with absolute accuracy just where every star in the universe will be at 11:30 tonight. He can make no such prediction about his teenage daughter.

two musical options: old hymns or cheery camp songs. Then, as hippie musicians who came to Jesus applied their talents to writing praise music about Him, Christian teenagers had new music to call their own. The resulting creative explosion—what's known now as contemporary Christian music—changed the face of worship in many churches for decades to come.

Satan whispers in our ears that it's not the same, that Paul's gospel was somehow infused with apostolic superpowers, and that our high-tech, Westernized teenagers are somehow immune to the power of the gospel. He tells us they're too spoiled, too apathetic and too distracted for the gospel to get through to them.

The only way that I have seen to keep teenagers out of one another's arms is to give them a bigger, more wonderful goal to offset all the distractions common to their youth. For a young man, that goal should include preparing for a delightful and profitable career, doing something he really enjoys doing. For a young woman, it includes preparing to be the ideal wife, mother and administrative assistant such a passionate and goal-oriented young man will need

I find the idea of today's icons being teenagers incredibly uninspiring.

Universities can teach maturity. They can teach teenagers how to be adults, and that means to function outside a clique or a tribe.

For the most part, I've stayed as far away as possible from high school movies. I just don't find them to be that relatable to everybody? They become like this: 'Look at that period of time. Isn't that interesting?'

a geyser of moral rebuke, erupting against teenagers who have committed some act of cultural appropriation, against the hiring of an actor for an inappropriate role, against a public speech by someone with unpopular views

In my experience, it's all wonderful with girls until about 16. Around that time, boys kind of calm down and start focusing their testosterone. Girls get a little challenging, especially for fathers.

Nobody at fifteen wants anybody to see how goofy their parents are.

Pete Wentz was the Justin Bieber of 2007. Girls loved him; they obsessed over him.

I think adults forget just how much faith teenagers can have in them, just how willing to believe that adults, by virtue of being adults, know absolute truths, or that absolute truths are even knowable.

There is nothing wrong with today's teenager that twenty years won't cure.