Noma Dumezweni Quotes

It's such a potent thing, to be a kid. We grow up, and we don't want to remember how everything is so beautiful and terrifying when we're young. The older you get, the more you hope to muffle things.

'In Ear Park' perfectly encapsulates the beauty of youth for me.

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

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

A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.

Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.

There was a lot of beauty in my childhoood.

Every western I did and will do; I will do it for the never ending young kid inside of me.

Children should enjoy the few years they have just being a kid.

As a 12-year-old, I think everything seems scary.

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

I was free when I was 12 because I got my first skateboard. I've been free ever since.

Sex is great until you die, but it's never as great as it was when you were a kid, when it was a mystery.

My memories of being nine or ten years old are especially vivid, since this is the time when you have a real sense of who you are - before the self-conscious preteen years start.

That boundless freedom of childhood is so wonderful.

Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.

It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

I'm still a kid inside, and adventure is adventure wherever you find it.

If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.

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

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.

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