Richard Paul Evans Quotes

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

The problem with growing up is that once you're grown up, the people who aren't grown up aren't fun anymore.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.

I love kids. I was a kid myself, once.

As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children.

Come clean with a child heart Laugh as peaches in the summer wind Let rain on a house roof be a song Let the writing on your face be a smell of apple orchards on late June.

Children hold spring so tightly in their brown fists-just as grownups, who are less sure of it, hold it in their hearts.

Let her tell stories and dance in the rain, somersault, tumble and run, her joys must be high as her sorrows are deep, let her grow like a weed in the sun.

Has it ever occurred to you that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into adulthood? Usually kicking and screaming?

Jumping for joy' is a very basic human reaction, and a child skipping down the street is simply an untrained dancer.

To grow up is to wonder about things; to be grown up is to slowly forget the things you wondered about as a child.

I think I matured quite early, but what that does mean is I have moments of complete immaturity. When I come home, I don't want to be an actor. I just want to be a kid. I barely even know what money is.

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.

When I was a kid, I used to try and hit every ball out of the ground. After playing one-day cricket and Test cricket, I never thought I'd get a chance to play like that again, ever. Twenty20 has given me the opportunity of playing like a kid again. I can just feel free and go out there and hit.

Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy.

Some people do need to grow up, but I don't think I'm there yet. I don't think I'm ready to do grown-up things and be a grown-up.

I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.

You can't have whatever you want. But to a child who must ask permission for every single thing, adulthood looks like a constant parade of every desire's satisfaction. It is a heady and terrifying place. It is the Otherworld. It is Fairyland. In fantasy, we make this literal.

When you have a kid, you have to be more mature.

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

I have two young girls, 8 and 10. They really keep me young.

I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.

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

When you're eight years old nothing is your business.