Teens Quotes

Embrace your beautiful mess of a life with your child. No matter how hard it gets, do not disengage... Do something—anything—to connect with and guide your child today. Parenting is an adventure of the greatest significance. It is your legacy. - Andy Kerckhoff, from Critical Connection

~ Andy Kerckhoff

The universe is more than thirteen billion years old. What is the value of a single kiss compared to that?

~ Shaun David Hutchinson

Education is the master key to greatness; without it, a child would be faced with the darkness of a future that's full of uncertainties.

~ Hafiz

If I am I because I am I, and you are you because you are you, then I am I and you are you. But if I am I because you are you and you are you because I am I, then I am not I and you are not you!

~ Menachem Mendel Morgensztern

She affected me, even when she was absent.

~ Shannon A. Thompson

Don't think about waht other's think of you. Matter of fact don't think at all,just be you. Do what you feel. No one else matters.

~ Emma Michelle

.Ensuring that young people get the right information that will enable them make the right choices is a responsibility all citizens must take seriously

~ Oche Otorkpa

We are going to change the way young people think about fitness.

~ Gheorghe Muresan

Truth is we are all tragedies waiting to happen, we just have to remember to have the rescue crew nearby when it strikes.

~ S. Elle Cameron

Few, if any, survive their teens.

~ Maya Angelou

Respect should be found in your own heart and never demanded, sacraficed, begged for or negotiated. If you have to explain why you deserve it then you never had it.

~ Shannon L. Alder

We sat there smiling at each other, shimmied to a standstill, thinking about all the boys that had wanted us that day, and how none of them had got us, not for a minute; how we'd let them pay for drinks and candyfloss and then run away laughing, their cries of 'Slags!' and 'Bitches' ringing in our ears like respect rather than derision.

~ Julie Burchill

It was the flashing lights, and the noise of the machines, and the loud, loud music, all seeming to refract and contract around her, her eyes widening, her hair swooshing, her slow smile shining. She seemed an actual part of the place - all fun, all joy, all shimmery skittering energy.

~ Julie Burchill

After that, I’d wanted to date, but I simply didn’t know how. It seemed to come natural to everyone else, pairing up and going out. And now, well, I felt like a nonparticipant, like there was a schedule to be followed and I was so far behind I’d never get caught up.

~ Lesa Howard

If young people are our greatest asset in a war that must be won then wemust be willing to extricate them at whatever cost from the clutchesof those who seek to exploit their weaknesses

~ Oche Otorkpa

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is just a little bit extra.

~ Kent Healy

Sometimes I think gravity may be death in disguise. Other times I think gravity is love, which is why love's only demand is that we fall.

~ Shaun David Hutchinson

I could write my name across the sky, and it would be in invisible ink.

~ Shaun David Hutchinson

As human beings, we're born believing that we are the apex of creation, that we are invincible, that no problem exists that we cannot solve. But we inevitably die with all our beliefs broken.

~ Shaun David Hutchinson

We aren't just defined by who we are, but by who are friends are. It's funny that we put so much importance on something that wont mean shit once we graduate.

~ Shaun David Hutchinson

She's the gristle stuck between Time's teeth, and I love her for it.

~ Shaun David Hutchinson

And I stood there and took it because I was an object. We were all objects to Marcus McCoy.

~ Shaun David Hutchinson

According to Sarah, who had gone two years ago, prom was famous for being an overpriced disappointment where most people had no fun.

~ Cammie Mcgovern

Every man dies. Not every man truly lives. Sir William Wallace

~ Amanda M. Thrasher

There is no way of stopping death, not here. You can prolong it. But at some point, it is bound to catch up to you.

~ Nicole Sobon

Not for the first time, I wonder what it would feel like that, to be so beautiful that you don't even realize people are watching you, to be so confident that you don't even have to worry about being nervous or feeling self-conscious. I've spent what seems like my whole life trying to pretend I'm that way. What would it be like to have it just come naturally?

~ Lauren Barnholdt

Halfway through the set, the lead singer, who goes by Cloud, knife in hand, begins to stab at the cutout of Copal Brandt with a lion's passion. Out of nowhere blood is produced and Cloud proceeds to rub it all over his own face and body, then on his own bandmates. Afterwards he roars into the microphone, 'Do you know why we're doing this, McAllen? We're doing this FOR NO PARTICULAR REASON!!!!!!!!!

~ Fernando A. Flores

We're so happy, even when we're smiling out of fear.

~ Lorde

I think I finally understand the saying like a moth to a flame. I’m the moth. My heart flutters like the paper thin wings. And he is the flame, incendiary, scorching my soul.He inhales so heavily, like he’s been holding his breath under water. He presses his lips against mine and tugs at my hair gently. My head falls back and my mouth falls open. His tongue, slick as silver, dances with mine.I’m wrong. I’m not a moth. I’m Icarus and I’ve flown too close to the sun.

~ A.d. Evans

And although I broke a lot of laws as a teenager, I straightened out immediately upon turning eighteen, when I realized the state had a legal right to execute me.

~ George Carlin

Never trust a pretty girl with an ugly secret.

~ Sara Shepard

He could add something to the list of things you weren't supposed to do. Don't get hurt, don't get dirty, don't get drunk, don't get scared, don't count on it. You ended up doing all of them.

~ Virginia Euwer Wolff

We make people into Gods, desperate that they never leave us and hopeful that someday, if we ever deserve it, maybe they’ll love us back even half way.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

This is one rule about mixing boys and girls: that a date always comes first.

~ Elizabeth Berg

I was surfing the Internet for a different sort of education. I surfed for photos of circus freaks and synonyms for the word intercourse and for answers to why staring at the stars in the evening tore my heart with longing.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

[On hearing that 86% of gay teens have experienced harassment] Eighty-six percent? Eighty-six per-fuckin-cent WERE harassed?! That means fourteen per-fuckin-cent WEREN'T harassed? WHAT?!At MY school a hundred percent of the children - gay, straight, transgendered, bi, sell... or trade - WERE harassed. She's saying that fourteen percent of the gay students were NOT harassed? That seems impossible.At MY school any one of us would have sucked Elton John's COCK at a mandatory school assembly for a fourteen percent chance of NOT being harassed.

~ Penn Jillette

Teaching middle school is an adventure not a job.

~ Angela K. Bennett

I guess whoever built and buried that IED out there in the desert will never know how far that blast traveled. But all things ripple out, cause shrapnel.

~ Lucy Christopher

I am seventeen. The good things about seventeen is that you’re not sixteen. Sixteen goes with the word sweet, and I am so far from sweet.

~ Francine Pascal

In their quest to hit cloud Nine, our young men and women intheir prime are gradually finding themselves on ground Zero,emotionally battered, academically bankrupt and medicallyparalyzed.

~ Oche Otorkpa