Alan G. Poindexter Quotes

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.

We grew up climbing trees, playing outdoors and cycling.

I like golf, hiking, camping, boating and fishing.

I have always had the sea as my playground.

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

I was very physical as a child - we lived on a smallholding, and I was always outside making mud pies or building structures up trees.

I never liked dolls or played house. I read and wrote, climbed trees, collected rocks, rode my bike, and befriended boys, platonically.

As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.

In all honesty, I didn't love reading when I was a kid. I'd rather be running around in the woods or doing my best to scare the pants off all the children in the neighborhood by pretending my house was haunted or making them play Bloody Mary in the bathroom.

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 like the outdoors.

I had a wild imagination as a kid - wild! - and I was outside all the time, swinging around in trees by myself.

People ask what message I have for kids, and it's simple: Just go outside.

I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~ And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

I'm an outdoorsy person. I really enjoy the hiking in L.A.

If Luna Marie is at the park, my child is not happy unless she's on the highest bar of the jungle gym or the tallest branch of a tree or jumping over the biggest, deepest hole.

I spent a lot of time outdoors as a kid.

I love to be outdoors, so I like to hike, bike and go to the beach.

I was really active as a kid. I was outdoors constantly.

I grew up playing in the woods.

I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings.

I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid.

In high school, I went to a place called the Mountain School. It's on a farm in Vermont, and I read Emerson and Thoreau and ran around the woods. Now I go hiking with a bunch of my comedy buddies. We talk about our emotions. I also do a lot of writing on hikes, just to get the blood flowing and the ideas moving.

They gave us the freedom just to play and have fun.

As a little girl living in the English countryside, I used to go running around in the forests, creating my own fairy tale.