Ruskin Bond Quotes

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

I think it is important for kids to be kids.

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

Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.

I'm still a kid inside, and adventure is adventure wherever you find it.

Children live in a world filled with possibilities. Their thoughts roam without boundaries, like dreams – full of images, places and actions. Unlike adults, they can’t temper their imaginations with experience. So, when a child plays with a toy or reads a story, it becomes an adventure, a new reality to them.

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

Experiencing lots of different things is what being a kid is all about, and it helps make the most of their childhood.

Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Ideas come from ordinary, everyday life. And from imagination. And from feelings. And from memories. Memories of dust in my sneakers and humming whitewalls down a hill called Monkey.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

I'm still very much a kid inside myself.

I always love writing about children.

There is a child inside me that wants to come out and do something to surprise all the adults.

You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, 'Am I having fun?'

A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.

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

You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.

When you're around kids you can be a little kid yourself and pretend that life is magic and you don't have to be one of those sweaty people going to work every day.

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.

I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to life.

There is a child in all of us.