Jamaica Kincaid Quotes

I remember being out in the street, singing 'Forever And Ever' at the top of my voice at five years old.

Childhood, whose very happiness is love.

Momma, you're special," Renesmee told me without any surprise, like she was commenting on the color of my clothes.

My mother really loved me. And one of the gifts that I have been given is that I have never thought for one second of my life that I was not greatly beloved.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.

I think we all miss our childhood.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

I think seeing the love between a mother and child is something we can all really relate to. You can remember it from your own childhood perspective.

My favorite thing about motherhood is the outpouring of love that is non-judgmental and beautiful. My daughter just makes me happy, and she motivates me to be a kid again.

Children are wonderful!

I'm really, basically, nine, and I've always been that. I've never, ever allowed the child within me to die.

Kids are the most beautiful beings that can come into your life.

I'm happiest in nature, in trees, rivers, streams, and I'm happiest around my kid - you know that's the funny thing, he is not always in the best of moods, but I am always happiest around him and in nature. Around my family is where I am happiest.

With my mom and dad around, I became a child yet again.

I love kids - they're so carefree and always put a smile on my face.

I'm happy I've stayed because Rome has become my home and an indelible part of my life, in an almost unreal way.

Really just about the only remembrance I have from when I was very young is the way Daddy used to place me on the refrigerator and then say, 'Jump!' and I'd jump into his arms. It was so much fun for me that even when I got too large for it to happen, I still wanted to do it anyway!

Sometimes when you watch children, you feel that they show emotions that you, as an adult, can relate to.

Everyone knows I care very deeply for my mother and that I love her very much.

At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. This was one of the great events of my life, as dazzling as first love. I had not imagined there was anything so delicious in the world. From that moment until I was thirty-eight, mathematics was my chief interest and my chief source of happiness.

Children add to the wonder of being alive.

I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.

Isn't falling in love always the fullest life?

Having a baby is like falling in love again, both with your husband and your child.