Quotes About Teenagers And Parents

#1. Bribes are the glue that's kept teenagers and parents connected for generations

Gayle Forman

#2. If you surround yourself with the good and righteous, they can only raise you up. If you surround yourself with the others, they will drag you down into the doldrums of mediocrity, and they will keep you there, but only as long as you permit it.

Mark Glamack

#3. I didn't bring you up to speak as if your mouth were filled with sewage.

Diane Samuels

#4. The next my parents and Brianna come rollin' up in here, I'm gonna scream, Hey! Why don't y'all just MOVE IN?!

Rachel Renee Russell

#5. I have dogs in my house and much like teenagers at some point, they leave the parents. Even though they're in the same house, they live independently. I think that's how I live with the Chihuahuas.

George Lopez

#6. Nobody is weirder than your own family, and I think teenagers feel that particularly acutely; the fact that you can walk five steps ahead of your parents and still be in the same family, but refuse to acknowledge it.

Simon Templeman

#7. I like writing about teenagers because it's a time of great change and conflict. Up to then, you accept what your parents tell you.

Joan Lingard

#8. Lessons in magic from a mysterious boy who belonged to a hidden Ferisher court called the Wild - I couldn't think of anything that would horrify my parents more. Therefore, the proposition became exponentially more enticing.

Ann Aguirre

#9. Let me give you some advice here: People who want to have the sex talk with you will act the same way as people who want to murder you. First they get you in their car, so they're in control and you can't escape. Then they drive you someplace in the middle of nowhere.

Flynn Meaney

#10. The challenge of writing books for teenagers is walking the fine line between truth and what the publishers, parents, and the more conservative librarians want to hear.

Annette Curtis Klause

#11. You cow,' Estelle added. 'I heard that.' 'Give the woman the geriatric audiology medal,' Estelle said. 'I heard that, too', her mother said, from the other side of the door.

Fiona Wood

#12. You truly do have the power to reach your goals.

Beverly K. Bachel

#13. What we create online becomes part of our digital DNA, this in turns becomes part of our human DNA.

Tiffany Sunday

#14. Change is a contact sport.

Romal J. Tune

#15. A boy starts with bravado, and then he grows into real bravery." -- Nancy Freund, Rapeseed

Nancy Freund

#16. Your supporters can help you think in new ways, solve problems, and burst through barriers.

Beverly K. Bachel

#17. There was no whimsical 'sip of wine at Thanksgiving' for us kids while we were still teenagers. This was the Clinton era, and my parents were already worried about the moral deterioration of the country.

Mindy Kaling

#18. Sex is an open secret parents try to hide to their children

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#19. 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

#20. When we became teenagers boredom grew like a moth in a cocoon fighting to escape, and the peace created by our parents became a prison. We sought excitement and adventure. We sought anything but the sinless, pure, and average of the faux idyllic.

Scott Thompson

#21. She leaned forward and put her arms around me. Sometimes it used to make me prickly when she did that, and I'd turn into a bag of knees and elbows. . .

Peter S. Beagle

#22. That took the view that every misbehavior, every cruelty perpetuated by one kid on another should be let slide in the name of letting kids be kids? (Let them be kids, really let them, and you will end up with a tribe of bulimic eugenicists with huge amounts of credit card debt.)

Karl Taro Greenfeld

#23. My parents had a software company making children's software for the Apple II+, Commodore 64 and Acorn computers. They hired these teenagers to program the software, and these guys were true hackers, trying to get more colors and sound and animation out of those computers.

Bre Pettis

#24. Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers.

Aristotle.

#25. Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk.

Michael J. Fox

#26. It's bad timing, but a lot of kids become teenagers just as their parents are hitting their mid-life crisis. So everybody's miserable and confused and seeking that new sense of identity.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#27. You're at a tricky age. Is it your parent's presence or your parent's absence that's more empowering? I'm no expert. I went from catching fireflies at your age to... well, adulthood.

Nancy Freund

#28. All teenagers want to rebel a little and break away. But I think you are always going to want to go back to your parents for that safety they provide.

Saoirse Ronan

#29. They rarely look at Baba
the teenagers
and then only with cold indifference, or even subtle disdain, as if my father should have known better than to allow old age and decay to happen to him.

Khaled Hosseini

#30. The biggest test for parents is not how they parent, but how the respond to disorder and unpredictability.

Sarah Newton

#31. You're unstoppable as long as you keep taking the next step.

Beverly K. Bachel

#32. The phrase 'Boys will be boys,' reflects that a male child is expected to be unpredictable and occasionally troublesome.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#33. Whatever emotional state you're in while you're parenting conveys more to your child than the content of what you're doing with them, no matter how perfect your intervention looks "on paper." In other words, to paraphrase Marshall McLuhan, "your emotional state is the message.

Michael Y. Simon

#34. Take it from me, anyone who lives with you is occasionally going to wonder who your liver might taste, and not because they are hungry. It comes with being a teenager - you inspire violence in the hearts of those who love you. It mostly goes away when you hit twenty.

Patricia Briggs