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Quotes About Teens

Research shows that teens with empathetic parents actually have lower levels of systemic inflammation—a biological marker of emotional stress—but we tend to breeze right past offering empathy and instead serve up reassurance.
~ Unknown
It wasn't until I was in my teens that I started admiring writers as inspirations for my own work, and my earliest influences there were Stephen King, Marion Zimmer Bradley and Richard Adams.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
~ D.H. Lawrence
Like the teens I worked with, I understood the need for miracles--they kept reality from paralyzing you
~ Jodi Picoult
Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
~ Plato
These five teens are convinced it was not a prank. They all believe this is the beginning of the zombie apocalypse we hear so much about. But I'm not so sure I believe their story - not this close to Halloween. The girl with the ponytail frowned at him. I know what I saw, she said. They are here!
~ R.L. Stine
I was very into football in my early teens and spent six months with Aston Villa, but I never really got further than having trials. I'm also into ice hockey.
~ Greg Rutherford
I am for anything that makes teens visible in an honest way... in other words, anything that represents them the way they are, positively or negatively.
~ Chris Crutcher
You're wrong there,' said Ruth, following Myrna's gaze. 'This used to be my drug of choice. In my teens my drug of choice was acceptance, in my twenties it was approval, in my thirties it was love, in my forties it was Scotch. That lasted a while,' she admitted. 'Now all I really crave is a good bowel movement.
~ Louise Penny
I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn't write or read horror or fantasy, other than children's fantasy, until I was in my teens
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
I was a compulsive eater in my late teens and until I wrote Diet for a Small Planet, so I know what it feels like when food becomes a threat.
~ Frances Moore Lappé
Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.
~ Marilyn vos Savant
A recent study announced that 52 per cent of all teens who sign virginity pledges recant them within twelve months. If I'm on my game.
~ Tina Fey
Have you seen their teeny beards? I had more hair when I was born!
~ Unknown
group homes or large residential institutions where many teens live, their caretakers are often poorly paid shift workers; despite the low wages, care in these settings costs taxpayers up to ten times the cost of family foster care. Over time, many teens experience stays in both settings.
~ Unknown
The number-one source of sodium for American kids and teens is pizza.61 A single slice of Pizza Hut pepperoni pizza can contain half your recommended sodium intake limit for the entire day.62 For adults over fifty, it's bread, but between the ages of twenty and fifty, the greatest contributor of sodium to the diet is chicken—not the canned soups, pretzels
~ Michael Greger
What a shame that allowances have to stop with the teens: both those that are paid to us and those that are made for us.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
I hate when counselors and teachers blame everything on low self-esteem in teens. Some of us actually have self-esteem, believe it or not. And when we make mistakes, it's not because of a defect in our psyche. We screw up just because.
~ Unknown
Now you're sure we are not going to be murdered?" Call Me Steve says, actually looking a bit nervous. "Prom night. Group of diverse teens. Remote cabin…
~ Patrick Ness
As long as adults still avoid open discussion on sexuality, teens will inevitably seek information on today's electronic street corner.
~ Peggy Orenstein