Ruby Bridges Quotes

I always have felt that I was six years old.

I wasn't frightened of people, but I didn't have a clue about the adult world.

I realise I'm still a child, though I do feel older.

It's very bizarre to me to now really be a grown-up. I kind of can't believe that I'm there because I certainly don't feel that way a lot of the time.

Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.

There is no child left within me, none whatsoever.

Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.

When you start acting as a child, you grow up ahead of your movies.

I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.

I never was a child.

When we're 16, we have lots of heavy thoughts. And these are the heavy thoughts, where, when we're in our 30s, we look at 16-year olds and sort of scorn it.

As a child, I thought, 'Once I am a grown-up, there will be no more fear, no more worries,' and it turns out that's not true.

As a kid, you don't know what's going on at the time. But once you get older, you start to realize it.

When you're a teenager, there are more things you don't know than you know, and more people that you haven't met than you have met. I felt that way when I was a teenager, and I think maybe, with my films, I'm targeting grown-ups who remember that feeling.

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

Sometimes I feel like a man; sometimes I feel like a child.

I think that I was quite a grown-up child, and I have been a pretty childish adult.

When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

Growing up is scary because it happens without you knowing it.

I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias.

I think I matured quite early, but what that does mean is I have moments of complete immaturity. When I come home, I don't want to be an actor. I just want to be a kid. I barely even know what money is.

When I was teeny tiny, I definitely had a voice that didn't quite match the way I looked at five.

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that. Don't rush into adulthood, it isn't all that much fun.