Kirsten Vangsness Quotes

I dainty little lass I wasn't. I looked twice my age until I turned 10 or 11.

Everybody just told me from the day I went into high school that I looked like Carol Burnett.

I was a homely kid with freckles that came out every spring and stuck on me till Christmas.

I was short and fat as a child.

Time goes by so slowly when you're a child, and then, as an adult, it goes by in the blink of an eye.

Watching your children growing up makes you aware of time passing. You think, 'Oh, God, look at them now! He won't be like this for much longer.'

Honestly, I felt pressure more when I was a lot younger.

You never think about someone dressing up as you for Halloween.

I feel like you're only young once.

I was always quite mature as a child and as I get older I'm regressing.

Free - I miss that band, but when I look back, we were very young.

From age 7 to about 37, I had a normal life and not a very easy one.

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

One thing I can say is that as I've gotten older, I've gotten younger. I've grown up but I've kind of immatured (but matured!) but I've allowed myself to be a kid. When I was a kid, I was so much of a professional and carried myself that way. It was crazy.

All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, ‘Oh, why can’t you remain like this for ever!’ This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.

Not every age is fit for childish sports.

I still forget, sometimes, that I am no longer 12 years old.

When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

When you little, you only get asked two questions, what’s your name and how old you is, so you better get em right.

I used to be a child. It came naturally to me. I was an adult for a time, too. That came less naturally.

You grew up way too fast and now there's nothing to believe; and re-runs all become our history.

There is nothing fine about being a child: it is fine, when we are old, to look back to when we were children.

I married her just because she looks like you.

Adulthood it a glacier encroaching quietly on youth. When it arrives, the stamp of childhood suddenly freezes, capturing us for good in the image of our last act, the pose we struck when the ice of age set in.

I am a child who is getting on.