Survival of the fittest Quote by Mary Jennifer Payne

“Adults can talk all they want about youth feeling invincible.”

— David Levithan

“We’re not teenagers anymore.” “Doesn’t mean we grow up.”

— Denna Ray

“Deep inside, we’re all just playing at being adults. Because we’ll never be better than the people we were at six, or worse than…

— Emily Hemmer

“Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown.”

— Agatha Christie

“The greatest thing about youth is that you're not yet battle-weary, so you'll try anything.”

— Bryan Cranston

“Nobody ever feels they're doing well with teenagers, he said. I think that's kind of the point of them.”

— Jojo Moyes

“They thought our youth could help us overcome anything.”

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“Life is too short, you know? You have to make the best of it. Do things most teenagers wouldn’t do.”

— Tessa Emily Hall

“I was very young when I joined. I’d grown up sheltered – and a touch spoiled. Like anyone, I suppose.”

— Ian C. Esslemont

“People only talk about how wonderful youth is when they have forgotten how hard it was.”

— Louis L'Amour

“The young seldom lie convincingly. They haven’t had time to practise like the rest of us.”

— P.D. James

“Oh how can we, scarce mastering our passions, expect that youth should keep itself in check?”

— Friedrich von Schiller