Teenagers Quotes

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.

~ Erma Bombeck

For the love of God, unless you’re prepping for Rigoletto at the Met, go easy on the eyeliner.

~ Cheryl Cory

Most teenage girls don't give old people the time of day which is sad because all old people do all the time is think about how nice it was to be a teenager so long ago.

~ Aimee Bender

I liked my face. Ethan liked my face. A lot of people liked my face. Besides, makeup was really just glorified face paint.

~ D.a. Paul

All I really want to do today is go to the book store, drink coffee and read.

~ Ann Marie Frohoff

Do you know why you feel destined for something greater?” “Why?” Kip asked, quiet, hopeful. “Because you’re an arrogant little shit.

~ Brent Weeks

Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived.

~ Margaret A. Edwards

May your eye go to the Sun, To the wind your soul... You are all the colors in one, at full brightness.

~ Jennifer Niven

You truly do have the power to reach your goals.

~ Beverly K. Bachel

You’re unstoppable as long as you keep taking the next step.

~ Beverly K. Bachel

Your supporters can help you think in new ways, solve problems, and burst through barriers.

~ Beverly K. Bachel

If all else fails, try to get some sleep…whether you realize it or not, getting enough sleep can make it easier to solve problems, control your emotions, and cope with change.

~ Beverly K. Bachel

The weekends are too short for sleep!

~ Bryant A. Loney

Sleep is the only thing I stay awake for.

~ Bryant A. Loney

Some people were simply created with the right genes and the proper social skills, I figured. They ended up at a lunch table with a group of good-looking individuals, like them, who did what all good-looking individuals managed: making the rest of us feel both envious of them and sad for ourselves, intentional or not. They had activities outside of school and followers online—people of social necessity who sat at home on Friday nights and 'liked' popular posts in hopes that they, too, might one day be as attractive and personable.

~ Bryant A. Loney

Instead of a criminal or a drug addict, I was looking at a boy—just a boy.

~ Shannon A. Thompson

I’m always the one who doesn’t have a date, the one guys walk up to and say, “So, is your friend, you know, with someone?” and I may not be the only girl without someone, but it feels like it sometimes. A lot of the time.

~ Elizabeth Scott

And you… do you know what you are?”“Stupid?”“Beautiful,” he says, his face turning red.

~ Elizabeth Scott

I don’t think I could have picked a worse guy to be my soul mate.

~ Elizabeth Scott

I didn’t want to see it. I didn’t think he’d ever really notice me, and in the end, he didn’t.

~ Elizabeth Scott

And I know what people say about not listening to insults or how you should let stuff roll off you, but it’s not that easy.

~ Elizabeth Scott

I knew from Brianna that being beautiful wasn’t all great. Brianna had changed in middle school. One day we were both seventh graders and the next, she was a supermodel who had a seventh grader for a best friend.

~ Elizabeth Scott

I thought you were going to— you’re standing under my window. Aren’t you supposed to climb up here or something?”“My ladder’s at home.

~ Elizabeth Scott

Love, really? We're vampires, not teenagers. Lust is for the weak.

~ Ashley Madau

She had been a teenager once, and she knew that, despite the apparent contradictions, a person's teenage years lasted well into their fifties.

~ Derek Landy

If this was mental illness, or even just a particularly clinical case of adolescence, I was bearing up pretty well.

~ Barbara Ehrenreich

I think of what it means to be a teenager in America, necessarily pushing boundaries, making expected mistakes. Here there is no margin for error: a mistake, no matter how insignificant, dashes any small hopes to break the cycle of poverty. Here in Kibera the world is relentless and unforgiving.

~ Jessica Posner

Now, Mr. Antonio. I understand that there are people who are close to you who want me dead.”“No, mija. They don’t want you dead.”“Then explain this.” I handed him the picture.He chuckled again.“No, they don’t want you dead. That would be too easy. They want revenge.”Cold sweat broke out all over me, but I kept my face calm. I looked at him straight in the eye.“Well, then they are going to be quite disappointed, aren’t they?” I flashed my teeth at him.“Senorita, you might want to warn Senor Smith, you see, my nephew he doesn’t like to share, and if he sees another man after you, he’ll get very, eh, aggressive.” The silver fox looked at me and winked.“Oh, he won’t have to worry.” I said as I was walking out the door. “I doubt he will be alive long enough to know Agent Smith.”Then I slammed the door.

~ Rumi Antoinette

I grab at Smitty and he at me, and, for one horrible, deperately embarrassing second we fly into each others arms like Shaggy and Scooby Don't.

~ Kirsty Mckay

But he was a perfect gentleman, Aunt Amelia. He did not even try to kiss me, though he wanted to. ... You always tell me I must be receptive to broadening experiences. That would have been a broadening experience. And, from what I have observed, a very enjoyable one.

~ Elizabeth Peters

Most insensible, corrupt, cheap, disrespectful young girls run after bad, rude, cocky, nonsensical boys, but a mature, educated, thoughtful, virtuos lady opts for a wise, well breed, experienced, humble, modest gentleman.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

This whole time, I wasn't waiting for something in particular. Just someone who wanted me.Not sex.But me.

~ Diana Peterfreund

I did not see Pirahã teenagers moping, sleeping in late, refusing to accept responsibility for their own actions, or trying out what they considered to be radically new approaches to life. They in fact are highly productive and conformist members of their community in the Pirahã sense of productivity (good fishermen, contributing generally to the security, food needs, and other aspects of the physical survival of the community). One gets no sense of teenage angst, depression, or insecurity among the Pirahã youth. They do not seem to be searching for answers. They have them. And new questions rarely arise.

~ Daniel L. Everett

It was only high school after all, definitely one of the most bizarre periods in a person’s life. How anyone can come through that time well adjusted on any level is an absolute miracle.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

Everything was brighter and more colorful in those years, as if my childhood was ending in an explosion of unreal passion that made my life feel sacred and holy.

~ Roman Payne

If teams had to name themselves honestly, they’d all be the Pimple-Faced Teenagers.

~ Eric Berlin

I raised my three teens with love, perseverance, tenacity, sweat, tears, prayers, lighting candles, and the list could go on.

~ Ana Monnar

She had read enough about teenagers to understand you couldn't confront them directly. You couldn't even agree with them. The best strategy was to feign indifference to whatever wrong direction they were headed in, then plop in little facts, like Alka-Seltzers, round innocuous comments, let those sink in, take slow, antidotal effect . . .

~ Melissa Pritchard

That took the view that every misbehavior, every cruelty perpetuated by one kid on another should be let slide in the name of letting kids be kids? (Let them be kids, really let them, and you will end up with a tribe of bulimic eugenicists with huge amounts of credit card debt.)

~ Karl Taro Greenfeld

Sometimes being a good parent is admitting that you weren't a perfect parent.

~ Colleen Ferrary Bader