Quotes about Teenagers

You are called to be an instrument of wisdom in your teenager's life. To do so, you must be gentle, humble, patient, and persevering.

According to Barna surveys, 61 percent of today's youth had been churched at one point during their teen years but are now spiritually disengaged.

Two musical options: old hymns or cheery camp songs. Then, as hippie musicians who came to Jesus applied their talents to writing praise music about Him, Christian teenagers had new music to call their own. The resulting creative explosion—what's known now as contemporary Christian music—changed the face of worship in many churches for decades to come.

When I see teenagers out in public with their families, holding back, refusing to walk with mom and dad, ashamed to be seen as part of a family, I have to admit that I have acted that way myself, at times, with regard to my Christian inheritance. A hapless and mortally embarrassed adolescent lurked behind the sophisticated mask I wrote in my twenties: faith was something for little kids and grandmas, not me.

Because of YouTube, I'm getting fan mail from 10-year-olds and teenagers and college kids.

Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!

The "Dorky Girl Fantasies" trilogy (Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, and Some Kind of Wonderful) and the "Dorky Boy Fantasies" trilogy (The Breakfast Club, Weird Science, and Ferris Bueller's Day Off).

Thousands are killed and injured every year by teenagers driving too fast or under the influence of drugs and drink... others are killing [themselves] with alcohol or heroin overdoses.

Life with most teenagers was like having a low-grade bladder infection. It hurts, but you had to tough it out.

Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people who love God back.

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.

I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.