Johnny Carson Quotes

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

When you're eight years old nothing is your business.

One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

I'm still very much a kid inside myself.

When I was a kid, like four or five years old, I was obsessed with the 'Batman' TV show in the '60s. And I took it totally seriously. At that age, I took it completely seriously. I didn't get the fact that it was kind of played for laughs. I didn't understand why my mom was rolling her eyes or chuckling.

I don't ever want to grow up. That's boring.

I'm a little baby in a barrel just taking everything in. I'm just so fortunate to do whatever I'm doing.

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.

I suppose you always look back at how easier things were being young. There's always a shame that you're not as naive as you were.

I remember being with my mum eating marmalade on toast watching 'Inspector Gadget,' 'Sharky and George,' 'The Pink Panther,' and 'Thundercats,' stuff like that. Those were the days - no idea how brutal the world is.

When I was 15, I still liked climbing trees and hiding in cupboards.

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

It's essential that a part of you not grow up. Childhood wonder gives us our spark and beauty.

Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing.

I wish I was a kid again, when I had all the answers.

Don't you ever grow up, it could stay this simple.

Aching familiar in a way that made me wish I was still eight. Eight was before death or divorce or heartbreak. Eight was just eight. Hot dogs and peanut butter, mosquito bites and splinters, bikes and boogie boards. Tangled hair, sunburned shoulders, Judy Blume, in bed by nine thirty.

Don't you think it's sometimes wise not to grow up.

Is the world all grown up? Is childhood dead? Or is there not in the bosom of the wisest and the best some of the child's heart left, to respond to its earliest enchantments?

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

I love kids. I was a kid myself, once.

When I was young, I was everywhere.

Maybe I'm sort of like the players - there's still a lot of little boy in me.