547 Quotes About Teenagers

I was born into chaos. I didn’t know what peace felt like.

You are a pearl of great price to me, but there are times when you are an almighty trial to those who love you.

It was as if each of them sensed vaguely that the Saturday afternoons of youth are few, and precious, and this feeling which neither of them could have defined or described made every moment of this time together too short, too quickly gone, yet clearer and more sharply edged than any other.

One of my pet peeves was when an adult imagined they had to encapsulate Life for you, hand you Life in a jar, in an eyedropper, in a penguin paperweight full of snow-A Collector's Dream.

Now they seemed to be in a contest over who could irritate her more, and she sometimes had to remind herself that teenagers had souls

I didn’t like his tone. In fact I didn’t like boys’ tone when they knew they were hot and tried to be rude to girls because they knew they were hot.

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

Surely that was why faith had been invented: to raise teenagers without dying. Although of course it was also why death was invented: to escape teenagers altogether.

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