You can tell a child is growing up when he stops asking where he came from and starts refusing to tell where he is going.

 —unknown

The best substitute for experience is being sixteen.

—Raymond Duncan

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.

 —Laurence J. Peter

If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.

 —Al Bernstein

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

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

 —Arnold H. Glasow

I have seen my kid struggle into the kitchen in the morning with outfits that need only one accessory: an empty gin bottle.

—Erma Bombeck

A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does.

—Lewis B. Hershey

Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life.

 —Yiddish Proverb

At fourteen you don’t need sickness or death for tragedy.

 —Jessamyn West

When buying a used car, punch the buttons on the radio. If all the stations are rock and roll, there’s a good chance the transmission is shot.

—Larry Lujack

Teenagers travel in droves, packs, swarms. To the librarian, they’re a gaggle of geese. To the cook, they’re a scourge of locusts. To department stores they’re a big beautiful exaltation of larks, all lovely and loose and jingly.

—Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

You don’t have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

—John Ciardi

Mope — hope — grope.

 —Maxine Davis