TEENAGERS QUOTES II
quotations about teenagers
Real teenage boys aren't like characters in the books you read. They smell funny and are obsessed with video games and say dumb things. They're still learning, just like you.
STACEY JAY
Juliet Immortal
We need to understand and accept that our teenagers are on an emotional roller coaster. Just as toddlers regularly fall down and we encourage them to get back up again, so will our teenagers fall into the depths of despair and need to be encouraged to pull themselves together and keep going. We need to find a way to help them make the shift from being caught up in their emotional dramas to figuring out what they're going to do about them.
DOROTHY NOLTE & RACHEL HARRIS
introduction, Teenagers Learn what They Live: Parenting to Inspire Integrity & Independence
A teenager is a whiz who can operate the latest computer without a lesson but can't make a bed.
SHO
Twitter post, January 24, 2011
Buddhism teaches that suffering is inevitable, but that suffering, like everything else in this crazy life, is impermanent. Things suck, but not forever. Buddha must have had a teenage daughter.
ERIN SMITH
"This too shall pass, I hope", Winchester Sun, June 12, 2017
A teenager is someone who is well prepared for a zombie attack but not ready for tomorrow's math test.
ANONYMOUS
Jealousy plays a huge role in the teenage years. If you don't have a "thigh gap" you're considered fat. If you don't get straight A's, you're an idiot. Constantly trying to live up to the movies. Trying to find a dreamy guy with the best body, dreamy face, most sincere personality and vice versa. Simply living life the wrong way.
CASSIE KING
"What It's Like To Be A Teenager Today", Huffington Post, May 24, 2017
We need to move past the stereotype that teenagers are a menace: most teens are great kids and they are just looking for some stimulation.
JUSTIN COULSON
"School holiday hell: Out-of-control teens turn shopping centres into war zones", Daily Telegraph, April 21, 2017
Teenagers are in the grip of their own Acquired Self created by society through TV, internet, magazines and video games. Their Acquired Self is taught to disobey, rebel and not follow rules under the illusion of independence and freedom. Meanwhile, Society's collective Acquired Self tells your Acquired Self to discipline your teenagers with rules. At the same time, it tells teenagers to rebel against the rules. Interesting, isn't it? Society's collective Acquired Self plays the trick of Divide and Conquer. In this way, it escapes its own detection and continues to thrive in you and your child. Ironically, neither of you sees the tricks of Society's collective Acquired Self. Your Acquired Self and your teenager's Acquired Self continue to tangle with each other, leading to frustrations, disappointments and anger.
SARFRAZ ZAIDI
Stress Management for Teenagers, Parents and Teachers
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
Like nearly everyone, teenagers behave as society expects them to behave.
STEWART ROSS
"Top 10 myths about teenagers", The Guardian, September 28, 2014
A teenager is a connoisseur of two kinds of music: Loud and Very Loud.
KACEY KEVIN
Twitter post, June 24, 2011
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
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
It's obvious teenagers are created, invented, manufactured, and armed for the descension that they'll inflict on society until adulthood snatches the rug out from under them. They are obviously not born.
LEON SEGERS JR.
One Parent's Story
I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.
ROBERT CORMIER
attributed, The Ultimate Book of Quotations
Sadly, American teenagers are to a weightless vacuum as seat cushions are to polyurethane foam.
MARISHA PESSL
Special Topics in Calamity Physics
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
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
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