547 Quotes About Teenagers

Always let your inner DORK shine through!

Too many overweight teenage girls are being pressurised by their families to lose weight when what they in fact need is better nourishment (which would almost certainly help them lose weight along the way).

But then, in the eyes all of them look like they had no age and knew everything in the world, anyhow.

Enid had learned the hard way that adults were there to enforce ever-changing rules and to punish kids for breaking rules. The number one rule being that all rules were subject to change--and always in favor of the adult.

If you make boozed up youngsters with no comprehension of civilization your role model, you will end up with a world outwardly sophisticated yet inwardly broken and empty.

Ngesinye isikhathi, ungacabanga ukuthi ingane ayifundesekanga. Uthole ukuthi loku ekwenzayo. Yiko into efundiswe yona.

You know you've sunk pretty low when your own father is embarrassed to be seen with you in public.

There's nothing worse than feeling miserable on a beautiful day. It was one of those days where the weather was so perfect it was almost painful, the sky a clean slate of blue, and the soft, warm breeze playing on my cheeks and through my hair as if to say, "Come on, it's not THAT bad.

We need to allow children to try and fail. And when they do make the stupid, shortsighted decisions that come from inexperience, we need to let them suffer the results. At the same time we also need to provide balance by not setting policies that will magnify one mistake, like drug use or fighting, into a life-derailing catastrophe. Unfortunately, this is exactly what our current "zero tolerance" policies-—that expel children from school for just one rule violation—do.