VIEWS ABOUT ADOLESCENTS
Enjoy the following quotations of other people’s views about adolescents and parents:
“Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.”
-- Carol Burnett, The Phil Donahue Show (1986)
“You have a wonderful child. Then, when he’s thirteen, gremlins carry him away
and leave in his place a stranger who gives you not a moment’s peace.”
-- Jill Eichenberry
“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,
Social Studies (1981)
“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)
“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
“A teacher’s constant task is to take a roomful of live wires and see to it that
they’re grounded.” -- E. C. McKenzie
“Adolescence is like cactus.”
-- Anaїs Nin
“At fourteen, you don’t need sickness or death for tragedy.”
-- Jessamyn West, Cress Delahanty (1953)
“. . . Thoughtless ingratitude is the armour of the young; without it, how would
they ever get through life? . . . Without the protection of surliness and levity, all
children would be crushed by the past—the past of others, loaded onto their
shoulders. Selfishness is their saving grace.”
-- Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin (2000)
“The best substitute for experience is being sixteen.”
-- Raymond Duncan
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