Teens Quotes - Page 6

Consider, if you will, the morning boner. What a metaphor of hope and renewal! How can anyone give way to despair when one’s groin greets each day with such a gala spectacle of physical optimism?

I lost my innocence very young and it had nothing to do with sex.

Nothing better for the hormones and worse for the heart than the right boy at the right time.

One minute the teacher was talking about the Civil War. And the next minute he was gone. There. Gone. No 'poof.' No flash of light. No explosion.

I guess I had always sort of fantasized that a guy would see me and get past the ponytail and the glasses and the giant sweatshirt to discover how insanely awesome I am, then come and whisk me off into that magical teenager fairytale where everyone else gets to prance around.

Once upon a time there was a young lady who lived in a marsh, and her name was Poison.

I was born into chaos. I didn’t know what peace felt like.

In every lifetime there is a moment. A moment so clear, so profoundly unique; that it stands out against billions of other moments. When you find a moment such as this one, you pay extra close attention to it. It will usually contain something that defines you in the future. (The Children of Ankh)

Truth is we are all tragedies waiting to happen; we just have to remember to have the rescue crew nearby when it strikes.

If young people are our greatest asset in a war that must be won then we
must be willing to extricate them at whatever cost from the clutches
of those who seek to exploit their weaknesses

It was almost painful to be different.

DETOX your mind, body, AND your contact list.

Parenting should always come from a place of unconditional loving.

Embrace your beautiful mess of a life with your child. No matter how hard it gets, do not disengage... Do something - anything - to connect with and guide your child today. Parenting is an adventure of the greatest significance. It is your legacy." - Andy Kerckhoff, from Critical Connection

a young man is still a boy, and a boy sometimes has the right to be stubborn.

Then turn your eyes back on me,
and tell me that Cathy and I are still children to be treated with condescension, and are incapable of understanding adult subjects.

...as we are endowed. ...with rhetorics. ...none will deny.
...of innocence. ...towards scribbling. ...of love lines.
...and of lust.
...to what seems like male.
...to what seems like female.
...in those days.
...I mean nothing. ...but in high school.
....even me.
...I can't deny.

Memories demand attention, and these memories will have teeth.

When you know truly know that God loves you it won't matter when others don't. And when you know truly know that God accepts you it won't matter when others won't.

We don't speak of it, or react to it. Paralyzed in a reality of uncertainty and madness,this is where we are.