Mitch Albom Quotes

I think that all of us either lose touch with the child inside us or try and hold onto it because it so precious to us and it's such an extraordinary part of our lives.

I have always said that I cannot allow the child within me to die. It's kept me alive.

I know what I really want for Christmas. I want my childhood back. Nobody is going to give me that. I might give at least the memory of it to myself if I try. I know it doesn't make sense, but since when is Christmas about sense, anyway? It is about a child, of long ago and far away, and it is about the child of now. In you and me. Waiting behind the door of or hearts for something wonderful to happen. A child who is impractical, unrealistic, simpleminded and terribly vulnerable to joy.

What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child?

Everybody's twelve years old in an apple orchard.

Every western I did and will do; I will do it for the never ending young kid inside of me.

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

When you are surrounded by children, the child in you comes back.

I've never outgrown my childhood.

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

A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.

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

There's a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.

There's a bit of the kid in me.

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

The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.

Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children.

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

There is a child in all of us.

The reliance of our race upon the progress and achievements of others for a consideration in sympathy, justice and rights is like a dependence upon a broken stick, resting upon which will eventually consign you to the ground.

I'm really, basically, nine, and I've always been that. I've never, ever allowed the child within me to die.

I remember, being young is a scary, wonderful feeling.

There was a lot of beauty in my childhoood.

I'm just - I'm a child.

I remember how much fun it was to be a child in the kibbutz.