Sudha Murty Quotes

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

The summer of 1943 at Exeter was as happy a time as I ever had in my life.

I think being a kid is a wonderful thing, and I don't want to speed up that process any more.

I still feel childlike. Not childish - there's a difference. But to be childlike is to be savoured and treasured. I offer my books to those who like the things of childhood; the challenges, intrigue, joy and fun.

Don't you wish you could take a single childhood memory and blow it up into a bubble and live inside it forever?

I feel very warm towards Mum and Dad for giving us the independence they did. My childhood, and the fact we didn't have a TV, gave me a boundless imagination.

You get to relive your childhood when you have a baby and you see these toys and these books you read when you were little - the innocence that you are able to maintain because you have to find that again in order to connect with your child keeps you in a special state of mind.

It's so important and easy to be a kid at heart.

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

I do have a childlike enthusiasm at times. I certainly enjoy life and get pleasure sometimes in childish things.

Anytime I was in Memphis with my dad and at the house, I was happy. That was, like, a given. It was what I lived for. And I still feel the same excitement and warmth.

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.

I am happiest when I am with my wife, Susi, and our two boys exploring and loving something for the first time.

When I was younger, I was always willing to tell a joke and play out a scene. I would get sticks and pretend they were light sabers. I think it was just at a young age, I was so willing to jump up and perform a little play at the family picnic.

Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.

Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children.

I think we all miss our childhood.

Growing up in the country, you're left to the wilds of your imagination.

I remember my mum coming into my bedroom when I was lying awake one night, and she asked what I was thinking of... And I was telling her about the inventions I would invent, and she said, 'Can't you ever just think stupid thoughts?'

There's a lot of magic involved in movies that as a child I really appreciated. So I love bringing my son to set. It reminds me of what I loved doing as a child, and also, as an actor, you have a lot of down time.

You get to become a kid again when you work with kids. They do crazy stuff.

I've always tried to retain that childlike wonder.

Children are wonderful!

When I was a kid, I lived in a poor part of Chicago, and I remember my brother and me using towels as capes. My son does it, too.

With my mom and dad around, I became a child yet again.