John Hughes Quotes

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

Sometimes I think I am still that 5-year-old girl playing with her dogs in the yard. That's how I see myself.

I don't yearn to be a child again.

I remember how much - when I was a small boy I was taken to see a version of 'Peter Pan.' I detested it. I mean, the sentimental idea that anybody would want to remain a boy.

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

Let's say I hope that I appeal to the more carefree times in a person's life rather than to his reasoning adulthood. I'd just like to be an image that reminds someone of joy rather than of the problems of the world.

Growing up is something that you do your whole life. I want to always feel that I can be a kid if I want. Growing up has some negative connotations. Like, you're not supposed to roll around on the ground anymore. You're not supposed to make fun of yourself. You're not supposed to ride a bicycle. But I'm a Toys-R-Us kid.

I've never outgrown my childhood.

I do think kids should be kids. You have the rest of your life to be an adult.

I am not in any hurry to grow up.

Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?

But the dream is never forgotten, only put aside and never out of reach: Where once the dream connected boys with the world of men, now it reconnects men with the spirit of boys.

I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.

I know I'm grown, but there's a part of me who will eternally be six years old.

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

Growing old is unavoidable, but never growing up is possible. I believe you can retain certain things from your childhood if you protect them - certain traits, certain places where you don’t let the world go.

I don't grow up. In me is the small child of my early days.

Childhood lasts all through life.

The child is in me still and sometimes not so still.

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

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

I've grown up, everyone's got to grow up. But there's something inside me, I'm always going to have that little sort of, how do you say, child streak.

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.

Even now that I'm married and 28, my room's still intact the way it was when I went to high school.