It is a mystery why adults expect perfection from children. Few grown-ups can get through a whole day without making a mistake. —Marcelene Cox More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wished we had. —Louise Hart More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The skepticism of youth signals the beginning of a search for something actually worth trusting, both within one's own psyche and in the world. That's why teens, supposedly stuck in life's lost years, are often so unequivocal about what they love and what they hate, and so frustrated when they feel misunderstood. The adolescent spirit is not the spirit of the lost. It is the conviction that you are not lost — that wandering has a purpose, and that what you deserve more than anything is the freedom to walk awhile on your own path. —Ann Powers More about this quote Tags: understanding love hate purpose youth trust skepticism conviction Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What causes adolescents to rebel is not the assertion of authority but the arbitrary use of power, with little explanation of the rules and no involvement [of the adolescent] in the decision making. —Laurence Steinberg and Ann Levine More about this quote Tags: power rules rebellion authority youth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Should we believe self-serving, ever-growing drug-enforcement and drug-treatment bureaucrats, whose pay and advancement depend on finding more and more people to arrest and "treat"? More Americans die in just one day in prisons, penitentiaries, jails, and stockades than have ever died from marijuana throughout history. Who are they protecting? From what? —Dr. Fred Oerther More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Why do you only hear bad news about LSD? It's always the same story about some idiot who thought he could fly, so he jumped out a fifty-story window. Why don't we ever hear this news story? "Today a young man took LSD and realized that ego is an illusion and that we are all part of the universe experiencing itself subjectively; that death is just another journey, and love is the only reality. And now, here's sports. —Bill Hicks More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Bringing up teenagers is like sweeping back ocean waves with a frazzled broom — the inundation of outside influences never stops. Whatever the lure — cars, easy money, cigarettes, drugs, booze, sex, crime — much that glitters along the shore has a thousand times the appeal of a parent's lecture. —Mary Ellen Snodgrass More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Youth: The too-brief span wherein the human chassis is factory fresh, undented, and free of corrosion; a pristine condition worshiped by menopausal women in sweat suits and shrinking men with chestnut brown toupees, while those who actually possess it are frequently too shallow or despondent to enjoy it. —Rick Bayan More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Caron is fifteen, to put it mildly. —Joan Hess More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I myself had not done anything just because . . . any of the adults who had me in their power told me it was for my own good. No fucking way. And whenever somebody told me that, there was like this alarm that went off under the hood and all I could hear was whoop-whoop-whoop, somebody's trying to steal something valuable, I'd think, so I'd usually do the opposite. —Russell Banks More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The family seems to have two predominant functions: to provide warmth and love in time of need and to drive each other insane. —Donald G. Smith More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I can't swim, so when the cigar goes out, I know I'm getting out of my depth." To illustrate, he lit the cigar, walked into the lake until the water reached the level of his mouth, then returned to the dry land, the cigar extinguished. "There, now," he said triumphantly, "if it hadn't been for the cigar, I would have drowned. —Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
L. Frank Baum [author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz] had a weak heart and was not allowed to smoke, but he often held an unlit cigar in his mouth. Once, when standing on a lake shore, he was asked whether he ever actually lit the cigar. "I only light up when I go swimming," replied Baum. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: smoking swimming Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues. You can't separate them. They're wedded. —Henry Miller More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Drink and carouse with Bacchus / or eat dry bread with Jesus, / But don't sit down without one of the Gods. —D. H. Lawrence More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email