Matt Skiba Quotes

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

It's so important and easy to be a kid at heart.

I was a very happy child, so to speak. But, since we didn't have video games or television, and very little radio, in terms of a form of entertainment, I used to read a lot and I would draw a lot, and those two things used to occupy my time.

When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.

It's easier for a kid to have fun and have an imagination.

I grew up in Greeley, Colorado, in a house without a television set. I was a very nerdy kid: I used to play 'astronaut' and eat bouillon as astronaut food. We also had tons of books.

When I'm not working, I'm having fun with my son. We do lots of kids' stuff.

Our idea of fun wasn't going to Disney World. It was, you want to play basketball, go outside, and make a goal. You want to play baseball? Take the old broom, take the handle off, take a tennis ball that we found somewhere, and go play baseball. We were forced to create things.

When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.

Everybody's twelve years old in an apple orchard.

We learned a verse of this and that and we were having fun with the songs. Tommy would make up stories to go along with them and I would yell at him, 'Hey, stupid, that's not right,' and he was like a silly kid trying to impress.

I envy my daughter's childhood.

I never played with anything like toys.

I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot to entertain us. When it rained, I stayed inside reading, writing, drawing.

When I was a kid, we sat around the house. If I got bored, I'd have to figure out something to do.

I'm still very much a kid inside myself.

For me, baseball just brings up a lot of nostalgic, happy feelings because I enjoyed it as a kid, and I liked being out there playing in the sun, and it was a simpler time for all of us.

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

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.

I love Tinkle, it's really the most fun I've had in years.

I am a kid in the dressing-up box at heart.

Even though you're growing up, you should never stop having fun.

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

That's another thing, we made up games. We didn't have equipment. When it snowed, we would play slow motion tackle football. We would play hockey, but we wouldn't skate. We just made things up. I loved doing that.

I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.