Joe Gilgun Quotes

Aching familiar in a way that made me wish I was still eight. Eight was before death or divorce or heartbreak. Eight was just eight. Hot dogs and peanut butter, mosquito bites and splinters, bikes and boogie boards. Tangled hair, sunburned shoulders, Judy Blume, in bed by nine thirty.

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

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.

Adult characters are all the things they've encountered over time. But kids haven't accumulated all the life experience, all the regrets. They tend to be more in the moment, more willing to play, to be joyful.

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

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

As long as I was well fed, I was a very, very nice child. I just used my imagination and played with Barbies. I was pretty easy.

My favourite memory was the first time my mum bought me a bubble blower. I must have been the happiest girl in the world that day. I was all over those bubbles like a moth to a flame.

Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies.

If I could repeat my childhood, I would repeat it exactly as it was, with the poverty, the cold, little food, with the flies and pigs, all that.

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

Is the world all grown up? Is childhood dead? Or is there not in the bosom of the wisest and the best some of the child's heart left, to respond to its earliest enchantments?

I envy my daughter's childhood.

Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid?

It's so important and easy to be a kid at heart.

I never want to grow up.

Running around when I was a kid was a really happy time; a time when getting home for dinner or for sleep were my only responsibilities.

I'm still very much a kid inside myself.

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

Sometimes I think I am still that 5-year-old girl playing with her dogs in the yard. That's how I see myself.

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

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

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.