Teenagers Quotations
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| There is nothing wrong with today's teenager that twenty years won't cure. | |||
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| It's difficult to decide whether growing pains are something teenagers have - or are. | |||
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| The average teenager still has all the faults his parents outgrew. | |||
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| 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. | |||
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| Too many of today's children have straight teeth and crooked morals. | |||
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| There's nothing wrong with the younger generation that becoming taxpayers won't cure. | |||
| - Dan Bennett | |||
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| Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery. | |||
| - Ambrose Bierce | |||
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| I have seen my kid struggle into the kitchen in the morning with outfits that need only one accessory: an empty gin bottle. | |||
| - Erma Bombeck | |||
| Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. | |||
| - Erma Bombeck | |||
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| There isn't a child who hasn't gone out into the brave new world who eventually doesn't return to the old homestead carrying a bundle of dirty clothes. | |||
| - Art Buchwald | |||
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| You don't have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. | |||
| - John Ciardi | |||
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| The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. | |||
| - Quentin Crisp | |||
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| The best substitute for experience is being sixteen. | |||
| - Raymond Duncan | |||
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| Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath. | |||
| - Arnold Glasow | |||
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| 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, Sr. Holmes | |||
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| It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry. | |||
| - Edgar Watson Howe | |||
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| Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own. | |||
| - Doug Larson | |||
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| As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you. | |||
| - Fran Lebowitz | |||
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| Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet. | |||
| - Judith Martin | |||
| The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don't have to pay taxes - naturally, no one wants to live any other way. | |||
| - Judith Martin | |||
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| How strange that the young should always think the world is against them - when in fact that is the only time it is for them. | |||
| - Mignon McLaughlin | |||
| What a shame that allowances have to stop with the teens: both those that are paid to us and those that are made for us. | |||
| - Mignon McLaughlin | |||
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| The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant -- and let the air out of the tires. | |||
| - Dorothy Parker | |||
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| Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other. | |||
| - Laurence J. Peter | |||
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| Little children, headache; big children, heartache. | |||
| - Italian Proverb | |||
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| Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life. | |||
| - Yiddish Proverb | |||
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| I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do now. | |||
| - Will Rogers | |||
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| 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 | |||
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| Why do children want to grow up? Because they experience their lives as constrained by immaturity and perceive adulthood as a condition of greater freedom and opportunity. But what is there today, in America, that very poor and very rich adolescents want to do but cannot do? Not much: they can "do" drugs, "have" sex, "make" babies, and "get" money (from their parents, crime, or the State). For such adolescents, adulthood becomes synonymous with responsibility rather than liberty. Is it any surprise that they remain adolescents? | |||
| - Thomas Szasz | |||
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| 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. | |||
| - Mark Twain | |||
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| At fourteen you don't need sickness or death for tragedy. | |||
| - Jessamyn West | |||
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| A baby-sitter is a teenager who gets two dollars an hour to eat five dollars' worth of your food. | |||
| - Henny Youngman | |||