Teenagers And Cell Phones Quotes & Sayings

Teenagers talk about the idea of having each other's 'full attention.' They grew up in a culture of distraction. They remember their parents were on cell phones when they were pushed on swings as toddlers. Now, their parents text at the dinner table and don't look up from their BlackBerry when they come for end-of-school day pickup. — Sherry Turkle

Humankind, or at least American-kind, will lose its edge as we produce more and more pipsqueaks and everyone gets nicer. Whole generations of pipsqueaks will be so fucking nice you won't be able to tell a man from a woman ... And it will get worse and worse as people mistake nice for good. HItler was nice, supposedly, most of the time. A lot of good that did ... — Mark Helprin

Eliminating Charles from everything he had touched was almost impossible, but it seemed to me that if I altered our father's room, and perhaps later the kitchen and the drawing room and the study, and even finally the garden, Charles would be lost, shut off from what he recognized, and would have to concede that this was not the house he had come to visit and so would go away. — Shirley Jackson

And none of you teenagers have cell phones?"
I wasn't sure what Addie's plan was, but I stepped forward to help her lie her way out of this one. I could tell she wasn't going to answer right. I pointed to all of us in turn, starting with Addie. "She got grounded from hers." Then to Duke. "His fell in the toilet yesterday." Then to Trevor. "His got stolen at a football game." And then pulled mine out. "And mine is out of batteries. — Kasie West

His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put back together to tell the same story. — Kate Morton

There is no occasion when meals should become totally unimportant. Meals can be very small indeed, very inexpensive, short times taken in the midst of a big push of work, but they should be always more than just food. — Edith Schaeffer

Her eyes widened and a strangled sound escaped her throat as she sought to process the sudden wash of conflicting sensations that bombarded her from every angle.
He was deep. Impossibly deep. She surrounded him. He surrounded her. Their hips were flush against each other. His body covered hers possessively. There was a burning ache deep inside her, and she couldn't discern whether it was pleasure or pain. — Maya Banks

The mob will now and then see things in a right light. — Horace

Tana. In all my long life, though there were many times I prayed for it, no one has ever saved me. No one but you. — Holly Black

Nicholas shrugged. "Who knows what he's got locked away in his head. Considering the countless lies he's told, you can never really know." "That's like the pot calling the kettle black, isn't it?" He smirked. "Perhaps. — Jessica Sorensen

The Grammys thing doesn't even touch my world at all. — J. Robbins

Neither boost about your own strength nor dignity but the sacred grace of God. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires. — Hilary Mantel

This world stands on the foundation of the relationship between the support and the support-taker. If the support is removed, the support-taker will be released. — Dada Bhagwan

The silence of a friend commonly amounts to treachery. His not daring to say anything in our behalf implies a tacit censure. — William Hazlitt