"Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth." - Erma Bombeck

“...but maybe it's just the genetic code of a teenager. If your parents forbid something, you have to want it.”- Brynna Gabrielson

"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he'd learned in seven years.".- Mark Twain“

“Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.” - SOCRATES

“Why do they rate a movie "R" for "adult language?" The only people I hear using that language are teenagers" - Unknown

Grandchildren are God's reward for not killing your children. - Unknown

“I raised my three teens with love, perseverance, tenacity, sweat, tears, prayers, lighting candles, and the list could go on.” - Ana Monnar

"The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another." - Quentin Crisp

The biggest test for parents is not how they parent, but how the respond to disorder and unpredictability.”- Sarah Newton

For though, as we have said, all children are heartless, this is not precisely true of teenagers. Teenage hearts are raw and new, fast and fierce, and they do not know their own strength. Neither do they know reason or restraint, and if you want to know the truth, a goodly number of grown-up hearts never learn it.” - Catherynne M. Valente

Raising teenagers is like nailing Jell-O to a tree. - Unknown

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath. - Arnold H. Glasgow