Category: Teenagers Quotes SMS

In the time it takes you to understand a 14-year-old, he turns 15.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

It’s difficult to decide whether growing pains are something teenagers have – or are.  ~Author Unknown

At fourteen you don’t need sickness or death for tragedy.  ~Jessamyn WestPIH

Little children, headache; big children, heartache.  ~Italian Proverb

There is nothing wrong with today’s teenager that twenty years won’t cure.  ~Author Unknown

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.  ~Author unknown, commonly attributed to Mark Twain but no evidence has yet been found […]

I have seen my kid struggle into the kitchen in the morning with outfits that need only one accessory:  an empty gin bottle.  ~Erma BombeckFCN

I tell my child, if I seem obsessed to always know where you’ve been, it is because my DNA will be found at the scene.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

The average teenager still has all the faults his parents outgrew.  ~Author Unknown

The best substitute for experience is being sixteen.  ~Raymond Duncan

Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery.  ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary, 1911LCD

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.  ~Erma Bombeck, quoted in Woman to Woman, Julia Gilden & Mark Riedman, FW

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.  ~Author Unknown

In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals.  If young, it will eat anything at any hour of the day or night.  ~Oliver Wendell HolmesCUL

There’s nothing wrong with the younger generation that becoming taxpayers won’t cure.  ~Dan Bennett

Don’t laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.  ~Logan Pearsall Smith, "Age and Death," Afterthoughts, 1931WLBUQ

My adolescence progressed normally:  enough misery to keep the death wish my usual state, an occasional high to keep me from actually taking the gas-pipe.  ~Faye MoskowitzAnd the Bridge Is Love: Life Stories, 1991; CTO

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.  ~Arnold H. Glasow

Teenagers complain there’s nothing to do, then stay out all night doing it.  ~Bob PhillipsFCN

Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.  ~Earl Wilson

The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding.  ~Edgar Friedenberg, The Vanishing Adolescent

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, The New Peoplemaking, 1988ch20, FW

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do now.  ~Will Rogers

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.  ~Larry Lujack

Too many of today’s children have straight teeth and crooked morals.  ~Unknown high school principal