Jim Gaffigan Quotes

The kids are old enough now - I just want to let them be kids. I don't want to comment on them too much. They're at an age where I just want to let them be kids.

I think it is important for kids to be kids.

The fundamental job of a toddler is to rule the universe.

He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand.

My parents, stupidly, always let me go downtown. This was pre-pager, even. It made me adventurous. I think it makes you tough.

Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves to a greater and greater extent.

I longed from a tiny child to get away on my own. When I was five, I walked out along the sands from Redcar, nearly all the way to Hartlepool.

Even though you're growing up, you should never stop having fun.

I had a wonderful childhood, but I was a wanderer from year one.

When you're a kid, you should be a kid.

Naughtiness is a part of growing up. It starts when you're a toddler and never ends.

I remember, being young is a scary, wonderful feeling.

If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.

When I was younger, even though I had a big brother, my parents would give me the house key every day.

Some kids don't want to be organized all the time. They want to let their imaginations run; they want to see where a stream of water takes them.

When people said schooldays were the best days of your life, I remember thinking: 'Tell me it's not true. This cannot be it.' I don't think my life has ever been that bad again. It hasn't always been easy but at least I have been free.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

To avoid discovery I stay on the run. To discover things for myself, I stay on the run.

It's saying no. That's your first hint that something's alive. It says no. That's how you know a baby is starting to turn into a person. They run around saying no all day, throwing their aliveness at everything to see what it'll stick to. You can't say no if you don't have desires and opinions and wants of your own. You wouldn't even want to. No is the heart of thinking.

She knows where she's going, and what she has to do. She could, after all, find her way to Route 95 South blindfolded. She could do it in the dark, in fair weather or foul; she can do it even when it seems she will run out of gas. It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.

Museums and bookstores should feel, I think, like vacant lots - places where the demands on us are our own demands, where the spirit can find exercise in unsupervised play.

The essence of childhood, of course, is play.

I wanted to be grown up the minute I could.

Starting at about, I guess, forever, I've always looked forward to getting older. When I was 14, I couldn't wait to be 16 and get a driver's license.

It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on my own and sort of explore. I never felt that where I was ever influenced my songwriting.