Judith Durham Quotes

We would turn everything into songs in those days.

Life was just a tire swing. 'Jambalaya' was the only song I could sing. Blackberry pickin', eatin' fried chicken, And I never knew a thing about pain. Life was just a tire swing.

Do you hear the children singing?

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

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

Simple pleasures were all the pleasures that I knew as a child.

Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.

I used to spend all my school holidays cycling around, so all this training has made me feel like a kid again.

I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.

I loved dancing as a young girl.

I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.

I will always dance in the street.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children.

I think we all miss our childhood.

When you're young you have no worries, no drama, only your imagination. It's the best!

The happiest days of my youth were when my brother and I would run through the woods and feel quite safe.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

With my mom and dad around, I became a child yet again.

Playing SpongeBob is freeing. There is something intrinsically about him that people identify with no matter their age.

It's so much fun trying to channel my inner four-year-old.

Every time I play 'Part of Your World,' a whole part of my life comes back to me. It's just inescapable - it was an innocent time, and a sense of discovery that we were all involved with.

The happiest moment was when I just played with a ball as a boy, carefree, without worrying about anything.

When you're really laughing, you feel like a little kid, and nothing matters.

I sing because it takes, for a brief second, it takes a little from my past, and just in that moment, I'm just happy and I'm glad to be who I am. That's the reason why.