Pierre Loti Quotes

(...) Since I was a kid." "Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.'" "Right.

What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child?

Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later, like childhood toys forgotten at the bottom of a crammed adult closet, but they are never lost for good.

You go back. You search for what made you happy when you were smaller. We are all grown up children, really... So one should go back and search for what was loved and found to be real.

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

Days of wine and roses laugh and run away, like a child at play.

To this day, I have the most fond memories of some of my old toys.

There's nothing I liked visually of the period I was a child. There was no dream in it, and nothing sparkled.

Childhood smells of perfume and brownies.

I had a picture-perfect childhood.

For me, baseball just brings up a lot of nostalgic, happy feelings because I enjoyed it as a kid, and I liked being out there playing in the sun, and it was a simpler time for all of us.

There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used to always cry from loneliness.

When we are thirsty, we drink the white waters of the pool, the sweetness of our mournful childhood.

At night I dream about going to where I played when I was still young.

It's funny, I listen to friends who talk about back when they were 14, eight, 16, whatever, as if it was yesterday. Me, I've no idea what I did. It's all a blur, I'm afraid.

Well, most grown-ups forget what it was like to be a kid. I vowed that I would never forget.

I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy.

I would like to go back and spend a Christmas with my family and myself when I was five years old and just see what that dynamic would be like. Observe it. I think it would be a magical gift.

Okay - before I even had a baby, I would dream of the day I could make ponytails on my kid. I don't know why. I somehow got it in my head that it would be such a cool thing.

A lot of the things that bore adults don't bore children, and people forget that. In some ways, boredom is a projection of adults because we can't remember what childhood was like.

During the first couple of years at school... I used to take my lunch and go down by the old fair grounds & sit alone by the side of the road & eat it... Those lovely, lonely lunches stick deep in my memory as unhappy times.

I was very young during 'Chachi 420' and don't remember much now.

The things about my childhood that I really loved the most, writing about those things was hard because I knew they would never happen again.

When we grow up, we tend to forget our first crush, first love, as we move along. Only when you see something on TV or hear someone say something do you go back to those moments.

A handsome period of my childhood was spent at our house in Tollygunge.