Teenage Issues Quotes

Kids are going to try drugs and alcohol; that's part of society.

According to Teenage Research Unlimited, 51 percent of 13-15 year olds say they will be faced with making a decision regarding alcohol in the next three months.

My mom kicked me out a couple of weeks before my 18th birthday. I had a job for about six, seven months at a supermarket, and they fired me for being late.

It is impossible to maintain civilization with 12-year-olds having babies, with 15-year-olds killing each other, with 17-year-olds dying of AIDS and with 18-year-olds getting diplomas they can't even read.

I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.

I go to schools in L.A., and I teach lessons. I run with the girls and teach them things about bullying and gossip. For instance, we'd play things like telephone, where you can actually see how words get twisted.

You know that show 'Teen Mom'? Or if you're from the South, 'Mom.

In the teen years, we often confuse self-image with self-esteem. Teenagers are very influenced by the image others have of them. All sorts of complexes come from this.

although it has been said that idle hands are the devil's workshop, when it comes to teenagers, both idle and active hands are the devil's workshop.

When you're in high school, there are so many bullies, and a lot of kids don't know why the bullies are being mean to them, so they blame it on themselves.

The national policy of promoting abstinence-only programs is a $1.5 billion failure and teenage girls are paying the real price.

It's rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.

Only thirteen, and she knows how to nasty.

The boys in junior high get really lewd and say outrageous stuff to the girls. If somebody yelled the stuff at me that I've heard at junior high schools I've visited, I'd be scared and humiliated.

All teens are in trouble in one form or another.

I was a teenager, and I started to go to high school, and it was a disaster!

I didn't have high self-esteem when I was a teen-ager, as I think most teen-agers don't.

The thing about youthful offenders is that no one seems to care about them. Most people don't like adolescents - even the good ones can be snarky and unpleasant. Combine the antipathy we feel toward the average teenager with the fear inspired by youth violence, and you have a population that no one wants to deal with.

If in addition to being physically unattractive you find that you do not get along well with others, do not under any circumstances attempt to alleviate this situation by developing an interesting personality. An interesting personality, is, in an adult, insufferable. In a teenager it is frequently punishable by law.

Cities simply don't have the powers they need to radically innovate in cutting obesity or the number of disaffected teenagers.

Young kids are taking Viagra, ecstasy. They even want instant sex.

I was very superstitious when I was a teenager, and I had to fight against that because it made me feel anxious.

I hope the film will help mothers and fathers to be aware that 15 is a very vulnerable age.

I've been broody since the age of 12.

All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.