#teens

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#concentrate #concentration #helps #homework #induces

I would not encourage children or teens to multitask because we don't know where those efforts may lead. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#children #efforts #encourage #i #know

Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#away #bike #clean #clean up #early

His body was perfect. His parents were loaded. His grades were terrible. He was a high school girl’s dream come true. ↗

— Elizabeth Nicole

#jocks #teens #dreams

What teens will realize is always a mystery to me. I'm still realizing so many things myself, very belatedly, that it seems unwise to think I have any right to be showing people things in hopes that they'll realize them. ↗

— Diane Duane

#any #hopes #i #many #me

I'm like any other kid; I've seen the monsters in the closet and under the bed. The only difference between me and other kids is...the monsters are afraid of me..." (Angel) Night School: A Dasheen "Angel" Vampire Hunter novel ↗

— Michelle Cornwell-Jordan

#young-adult-urban-fantasy #urban-fantasy

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. ↗

— Michael Grant

#survival #teens #teacher

No measure of time with you will be long enough. But let's start with forever. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#science-fiction-romance #teen-fiction #teens #young-adult #young-adult-fiction

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

#teachers #teens #food

Sometimes I wonder about good and evil. If the villain wins, isn't he heralded as the hero? I've tried so hard to be good since that day, but sometimes I wonder whether it's even worth it. After all, to be the hero, I have to win. ↗

— Sarah C. Yung

#morality #supernatural #teens #yalit #young-adult