"Everyone who deals with teens seems to agree that the most important and toughest job is staying in connection and conversation ... not delivering a lecture but saying what we think." ~ Ellen Goodman
You have to stand for what you believe in. And sometimes you have to stand alone. ~ Queen Latifah
Thank God I had two parents who loved me enough to stay on my case. ~ Shaquille O’Neal
I would dye my hair every week. I wanted to be a really goth teenager. ~ Sarah Michelle Gellar
Oh, to be only half as wonderful as my child thought I was when he was small, and only half as stupid as my teenager now thinks I am. ~ Rebecca Richards
Remember that 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
One doesn't remain a teenager forever. ~ Mariah Carey
All any grownup expects of an adolescent is that he act like an adult and be satisfied to be treated like a child. ~ John Gran, St. Paul Dispatch, 1957
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. ~ John Ciardi
Bringing up teenagers is like sweeping back ocean waves with a frazzled broom—the inundation of outside influences never stops. Whatever the lure—cars, easy money, cigarettes, drugs, booze, sex, crime—much that glitters along the shore has a thousand times the appeal of a parent’s lecture. ~ Mary Ellen Snodgrass
When you have three teenagers, it gives a whole new meaning to “homeland security.” ~ Bruce Springsteen
Fantasy is literature for teenagers. ~ V. S. Naipaul
I always thought adults were having much more fun than teenagers. It turns out to be absolutely true. ~ Elvis Costello
