Quotes on teenagers
It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.
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Edgar Watson Howe Quotes
When buying a used car, punch the buttons on the radio. If all the stations are rock and roll, there's a good chance the transmission is shot.
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Larry Lujack Quotes
The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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Quentin Crisp Quotes
Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.
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Arnold Glasow Quotes
There isn't a child who hasn't gone out into the brave new world who eventually doesn't return to the old homestead carrying a bundle of dirty clothes.
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Art Buchwald Quotes
At fourteen you don't need sickness or death for tragedy.
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Jessamyn West Quotes
Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life.
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Yiddish Proverb Quotes
A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does.
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Lewis B. Hershey Quotes
Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.
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Laurence J. Peter Quotes
Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.
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Judith Martin Quotes
You can tell a child is growing up when he stops asking where he came from and starts refusing to tell where he is going.
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Author Unknown Quotes
When the boy is growing he has a wolf in his belly.
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German Proverb Quotes
As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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Fran Lebowitz Quotes
Teenagers complain there's nothing to do, then stay out all night doing it.
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Bob Phillips Quotes
A baby-sitter is a teenager who gets two dollars an hour to eat five dollars worth of your food.
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Henny Youngman Quotes
The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don't have to pay taxes - naturally, no one wants to live any other way.
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Judith Martin Quotes
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.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
There is nothing wrong with today's teenager that twenty years won't cure.
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Author Unknown Quotes
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.
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Virginia Satir Quotes
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
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Mark Twain Quotes
The average teenager still has all the faults his parents outgrew.
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If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
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Al Bernstein Quotes
Little children, headache; big children, heartache.
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Italian Proverb Quotes
Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.
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How strange that the young should always think the world is against them - when in fact that is the only time it is for them.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
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Dorothy Parker Quotes
It's difficult to decide whether growing pains are something teenagers have - or are.
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