Rick Bayan Quotes

If I could repeat my childhood, I would repeat it exactly as it was, with the poverty, the cold, little food, with the flies and pigs, all that.

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

I think because I'm not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood.

It's natural for a child to assume that his or her own childhood is unremarkable.

A child should be a child for as long as possible.

Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies.

Childhood may have periods of great happiness, but it also has times that must simply be endured. Childhood at its best is a form of slavery tempered by affection.

I have a lot of stories about being a kid because it was the last time I was interesting.

Childhood is the one prison from which there's no escape, the one sentence from which there's no appeal. We all serve our time.

I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that. Don't rush into adulthood, it isn't all that much fun.

One of the things I loved about my childhood was that I didn't feel like I lost my innocence too young, like some children these days.

Childhood is a fundamental part of all human lives, parents or not, since that's how we all start out. And yet babies and young children are so mysterious and puzzling and even paradoxical.

I've always felt this, from when I was growing up to now with my son Riley. We don't let them be little. I was not a normal kid, but I had a sense of innocence far longer than we let kids.

I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.

When I was a little kid, I used to really embarrass my parents.

Fairy tales were important to me. Aren't they for any kid? My sister says I spent a good five years of my youth convinced I would grow up to be a princess.

I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends, just being silly in our bedrooms, whatever. And I was always the clown.

I used to be a dusty little child.

I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy.

I remember how much - when I was a small boy I was taken to see a version of 'Peter Pan.' I detested it. I mean, the sentimental idea that anybody would want to remain a boy.

I don't know, maybe I'm overly paranoid that they're going to be spoiled, but I want to keep them going as kids for as long as I can. I want to keep them innocent and free.

I don't ever want to grow up. That's boring.

Hold back the tide. Keep your kids innocent as long as possible.

I've never been more than 9 years old.

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.