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.
Howe, Edgar Watson
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.
Lujack, Larry
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.
Crisp, Quentin
Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.
Glasow, Arnold
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.
Buchwald, Art
At fourteen you don't need sickness or death for tragedy.
West, Jessamyn
Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life.
Proverb, Yiddish
Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.
Peter, Laurence J.
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.
Lebowitz, Fran
Teenagers complain there's nothing to do, then stay out all night doing it.
Phillips, Bob
A baby-sitter is a teenager who gets two dollars an hour to eat five dollars worth of your food.
Youngman, Henny
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.
Martin, Judith
There is nothing wrong with today's teenager that twenty years won't cure.
Unknown, Author
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.
Twain, Mark
Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.
Unknown, Author
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.
McLaughlin, Mignon