Tony Parsons Quotes

My chest feels full of glitter and helium, the way it used to when I was little and riding my father's shoulders at twilight, when I knew that if I held up my hands and spread my fingers like a net, I could catch the coming stars.

You know, it's kind of hard because I really - I see kids on their Rollerblades and their bikes, and just running around, climbing trees, and I used to do that. And I loved doing that.

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

There was a lot of beauty in my childhoood.

When it rains, nobody hides inside. You just go out and enjoy it. The other thing I remember is begging my grandmother for money to go and get a grapenut ice cream.

I remember how much fun it was to be a child in the kibbutz.

When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.

Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.

I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~ And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

I'm out there having as good a time as I did in the backyard since I was five-years-old.

Everybody's twelve years old in an apple orchard.

I dig in the sand, and I play with pretty pictures, so I never really left kindergarten.

As kids, we lived in this magical world and roamed free in the gardens. I was obsessed with 'Alice in Wonderland.' My dad cut the hedges so that they started shorter and grew taller, so I could run up and down and feel like I was shrinking.

I remember, when I was a kid, my summers were pretty much running around, riding your bike, and then complaining about you were bored.

If we can, like, be in the backyard playing baseball, I'd be the happiest kid in the world.

When I was 15, I still liked climbing trees and hiding in cupboards.

I used to love going to the garden centre as a kid. It made me feel relaxed.

I first read 'Tom Sawyer' when I was in 8th grade, 13 years old. I realised since that Mark Twain just bottled what it felt like to be a child.

I love running around trees as much as a serious role.

I'm really thankful for the time that I grew up in that we didn't have cell phones, and we made a lot of our own fun.

Bubbles are one of the few things in life that we are allowed to break.

My favourite memory was the first time my mum bought me a bubble blower. I must have been the happiest girl in the world that day. I was all over those bubbles like a moth to a flame.

I have this big kid in me. I indulge him; I let him out to horse around. I think I'm being a great old man.

When you're really laughing, you feel like a little kid, and nothing matters.

I would play around bonfires with my friends, and people were telling me that I was good.