Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

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

Everybody's twelve years old in an apple orchard.

Cling, swing, Spring, sing, Swing up into the apple tree.

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

I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.

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

Where children are, there is the golden age.

It's easier for a kid to have fun and have an imagination.

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.

I had a wild imagination as a kid - wild! - and I was outside all the time, swinging around in trees by myself.

If you play without the shackles and burdens, then you play like you did when you were a kid.

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

When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.

The most fun to do in the weightlessness is going down the ladder headfirst, walking on the ceiling, chasing after M&M's that you throw up into the air - they're just bouncing around all over the place and you go around like a fish eating them. I often tell kids that when you go into space and experience weightlessness, the serious adult in you gives way to the child you used to be, who had imagination, who had no bounds on what was possible.

We all know how to be a child.

We all know how to be a child. It's inside all of us. For me, it's just remembering how to enjoy it.

When we were children we were errant enough to wish to be birds for the day but there's nothing easier to lose than playfulness.

One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

Be a child again. Flirt. Giggle. Dip your cookies in your milk. Take a nap. Say you're sorry if you hurt someone. Chase a butterfly. Be a child again.

I want to chase the butterflies.

And so we stayed out in the garden of the old house until we couldn't kick a ball, laughing in the gathering twilight, making the most of the good weather and all the days that were left, our little game watched only by next door's cat, and every star in the heavens.

I remember once walking out hand in hand with a boy I knew, and it was summer, and suddenly before us was a field of gold. Gold as far as you could see. We knew we'd be rich forever. We filled our pockets and our hair. We were rolled in gold. We ran through the field laughing and our legs and feet were coated in yellow dust, so that we were like golden statues or golden gods. He kissed my feet, the boy I was with, and when he smiled, he had a gold tooth. It was only a field of buttercups, but we were young.

Forget everything you've ever learned about the stars and they'll once more be transformed into angels, or into children, or into whatever you want to believe at that moment. It won't make you more stupid - after all, it's only a game - but it could enrich your life.

I will always have a child in me. That is what Pete Jackson has got, what a lot of the directors I have worked with have. It is about knowing how to have fun and that is something I always want to hold on to.

Sam loved to listen to music and make his own songs, to wear soft velvets, to play in the castle kitchen beside the cooks, drinking in the rich smells as he snitched lemon cakes and blueberry tarts. His passions were books and kittens and dancing, clumsy as he was.