Cree Summer Quotes

When I was seven and we lived in New York, I ran away. I took my dog and started out across the Brooklyn Bridge... I didn't get very far... It's rather difficult to run away in your mother's high heels.

My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.

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 had a happy childhood: extremely outdoorsy and independent.

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

The little boy inside of all us men always loves something video game related.

My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings.

My dad loved Scotland, so we would pile into his caravan and head for the Highlands, to Fort William and Loch Ness. It was such an adventure - my siblings and I were allowed to roam and explore the local beaches. We loved the freedom of those trips.

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

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.

When you're around kids you can be a little kid yourself and pretend that life is magic and you don't have to be one of those sweaty people going to work every day.

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

To people of my generation, the picture show was really another dimension - sensual, whimsical. No uniforms or collective rites, but a place where little boys like me could laugh and feel free.

I was crawling out of the bedroom window with my older sister when I should have still been playing with dolls.

We grew up climbing trees, playing outdoors and cycling.

It was my dad who got me into football. One day, he surprised me playing in the garage. He thought I was a thief. I always played football when I was a kid.

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

Within the first six years of my life, if asked what Dad was to me I would have emphatically responded: 'Dad is fun!' This was my simple foundation for my enduring relationship with my father.

When I was young, I loved the feeling of escaping to the rocks on a Friday afternoon with my parents.

Lawrence has a wonderful hill in it, with a university on top and the first time I ran away from home, I ran up the hill and looked across the world: Kansas wheat fields and the Kaw River, and I wanted to go some place, too. I got a whipping for it.

I need to sing and I love to travel.

At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family. My mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father helped Caleb with his homework. There was a fire in the fireplace and peace in my heart, as I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing, and everything was quiet. I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free.

I love to make stories out of license plates on cars about the initials and the numbers - my mum used to do that with me.

Don't you wish you could take a single childhood memory and blow it up into a bubble and live inside it forever?