Florence Griffith Joyner Quotes

Growing up, I was a kid pretending to be an adult.

You and I who still enjoy fairy tales have less reason to wish actual childhood back. We have kept its pleasures and added some grown-up ones as well.

As a little girl I loved the thought of playing dress-up and getting ready.

I used to love to play dress-up, where you get your mother's or your grandmother's dresses and high heels.

I don't ever want to grow up. That's boring.

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.

My mom told me, 'don't grow up too quickly; once you're an adult, you're an adult.'

All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.

When I was a kid, I used to look in the mirror and pretend I was Elvis.

I love kids. I was a kid myself, once.

As a child, I was prancing around in my mother's high heels and a ra-ra skirt, singing 'Material Girl' into my hairbrush.

I feel it's like being a kid and dressing up, because that's what Baby Jane is.

I've been able to play a kid up to this point and pretend that I'm not a grown-up - well, at least for two hours a night!

I never realized until recently how much my life parallels Peter Pan.

I had a real strong fantasy life as a kid. But then you grow up and think about real jobs.

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

I liked to play dress-up.

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

I don't yearn to be a child again.

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

But the dream is never forgotten, only put aside and never out of reach: Where once the dream connected boys with the world of men, now it reconnects men with the spirit of boys.

I remember how much - when I was a small boy I was taken to see a version of 'Peter Pan.' I detested it. I mean, the sentimental idea that anybody would want to remain a boy.

When I was a kid, I thought it was tough.

Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'

I loved everything about being ten, eleven, and twelve years old, and seem to make most of my heroines and heroes that age so I can reexperience all those pitfalls and wonderful discoveries. It helps me to figure out my own life when I write from that eleven year old place!