Roald Dahl Quotes

I don't know if it's that my own childhood felt brief, or I grew up too fast, or I was pushing myself too much at a young age, but I do feel like I am clinging to a certain childlike quality in myself, as a result of a childhood that was sometimes complicated.

I've never been more than 9 years old.

A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportunity to be a child, so they hold on to that and still do a lot of childish, silly things.

I had to deal with death at a really young age.

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

It's hard to think of yourself as a loser at 2 years old.

Who the hell do you think did it, Martians?

You have to remember, that insane people can do some horrors themselves. I had committed no crime, though. I hadn't shot anybody. Yet.

My head was spinning, I had never seen blood. Four years old, this don't feel like love.

I don't think I've ever stolen anything.

Goodness," Myrnin said quietly. "I don't think I should be watching this. I don't think I'm old enough.

Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.

The tears of childhood fall fast and easily, and evil be to him who makes them flow.

God bless little children while they're still too young to hate.

If pimps and thieves everywhere were always punished, honest people would all believe themselves always to be innocent.

I want to get out of here means I want to be innocent.

Remember when we didn't live in the future? When we were young, it was not the future yet.

I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias.

What can be done when you’re eleven can often never be done again.

My chest got this weird feeling, like when you stare into the eyes of a little baby and the baby looks back up at you and you can feel how pure and innocent it is, so much that it makes your stomach feel empty - probably 'cause you realize you used to be pure like that, too, and now you're not.

When those types of situations[like abuse] begin to occur in your life - I had bought in from a very early age that fundamentally something must be wrong with me.

The fact was I didn't want to look my age, but I didn't want to act the age I wanted to look either. I also wanted to grow old enough to understand that sentence.

At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.

My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.