Jack Monroe Quotes

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

I remember, being young is a scary, wonderful feeling.

When I was younger, even though I had a big brother, my parents would give me the house key every day.

It is not because I do not love my adopted land - it is the natural feeling of one far from home, who remembers those happy, carefree days when life flowed at full tide, without responsibility, flashing past one like the drama in a fascinating story of adventure and romance.

I hadn't been free from adult responsibilities since I was 12, and I needed to experience that. I really needed to just be a kid again.

I had a wonderful childhood, but I was a wanderer from year one.

When me and my brother Eagle-Eye were kids, life was about hitting the road, getting on the bus. We loved it.

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

When I was a kid, we played outside until we couldn't see and had to go in. I rode my bicycle and played tag football, kick the can, and hide-and-go-seek.

After all these years, I still feel like a boy when I'm on a stream

When I was young, all I wanted to do was to compete, have fun and travel.

Starting at about, I guess, forever, I've always looked forward to getting older. When I was 14, I couldn't wait to be 16 and get a driver's license.

Sendak's 1963 classic 'Where The Wild Things Are' has long been a favorite of mine because of the creative imagery, fantastic adventures and, most of all, because of how this timeless story shows us that children need to be free to roam, explore and invent in order to understand their place in the world that surrounds them.

My parents, stupidly, always let me go downtown. This was pre-pager, even. It made me adventurous. I think it makes you tough.

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

The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are children.

You know, it's kind of hard because I really - I see kids on their Rollerblades and their bikes, and just running around, climbing trees, and I used to do that. And I loved doing that.

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 happy childhood: extremely outdoorsy and independent.

Sometimes I think that the one thing I love most about being an adult is the right to buy candy whenever and wherever I want.

I rode my bike to school every day from age five to age fourteen. It was a small town - you could go anywhere.

I've been under the spell of the North ever since my childhood in Alaska. More and more, I've been returning to Alaska, and sometimes my adventures inspire a story.

The kids are old enough now - I just want to let them be kids. I don't want to comment on them too much. They're at an age where I just want to let them be kids.

I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.

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