Kerry Greenwood Quotes

One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

My imagination is closer to a child's imagination than to a grown-up's.

I never want to grow up.

I'm still very much a kid inside myself.

I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.

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

I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.

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

I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.

In reality, I never want to grow up.

Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?

The way I wanted to write it, is with a hero, or sort of a pure character who was the protagonist. And the antagonists were these demonic evil children, cause when you're a kid, seven or eight years old, and you're looking at the world around you - everything seems black or white, good or bad.

I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to life.

I just like being a kid. I enjoy it, I don't want to grow up.

I've been led by my nose all my life and tried to make perfume by boiling sugar water in jam jars and stuffing them full of gardenia and rose petals when I was growing up in Swaziland.

I am forever living in my childhood.

I suppose you always look back at how easier things were being young. There's always a shame that you're not as naive as you were.

I remember being with my mum eating marmalade on toast watching 'Inspector Gadget,' 'Sharky and George,' 'The Pink Panther,' and 'Thundercats,' stuff like that. Those were the days - no idea how brutal the world is.

We were kids when we started.

I was an imaginative kid. My sister needed entertaining, whereas I was the one under the table playing with a bit of fluff on the carpet. I was the sort of child who would spend time rolling up balls of all different kinds of fluff and that would be my little family.

I think the thing that strikes you when you come back to 'The Little Mermaid' after all of these years is the simplicity and innocence. That's in the look of it, and that's in the sound of it.

I wasn't in any hurry to grow up and become this worldly person.

That was the summer of 1963, when everybody called me ‘Baby,’ and it didn't occur to me to mind.

I wish I was a kid again, when I had all the answers.