Louisa May Alcott Quotes

So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!

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

I hadn't been free from adult responsibilities since I was 12, and I needed to experience that. I really needed to just be a kid again.

I never want to grow up.

What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.

I do think kids should be kids. You have the rest of your life to be an adult.

In reality, I never want to grow up.

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

I think when you are 17 you are very innocent.

They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.

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

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.

I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.

I want to encourage other young girls not to grow up too soon. Just enjoy the now.

I've been able to play a kid up to this point and pretend that I'm not a grown-up - well, at least for two hours a night!

As a kid, I was just a kid. Average.

I realise I'm still a child, though I do feel older.

I am not in any hurry to grow up.

I think you're a little more fragile when you're younger.

I remember riding my bike down the boardwalk with nowhere to go and looking at the girls. It was really innocent.

It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

It's kind of fun being the cute, little one. In fact, I'm finding it hard to grow out of that.

When I was a kid, I thought it was tough.