Lewis Carroll Quotes

I have a daughter, and fairies meant a lot to her growing up.

You get to relive your childhood when you have a baby and you see these toys and these books you read when you were little - the innocence that you are able to maintain because you have to find that again in order to connect with your child keeps you in a special state of mind.

As kids, we lived in this magical world and roamed free in the gardens. I was obsessed with 'Alice in Wonderland.' My dad cut the hedges so that they started shorter and grew taller, so I could run up and down and feel like I was shrinking.

Come on back and we’ll see if you remember the simplest thing of all – how it is to be children, secure in belief and thus afraid of the dark.

The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself. I was a child then, I had no idea what the world would be like. I wished to trust myself on the waters and the sea. Everything was romantic in my imagination. The woods were peopled by the mysterious good folk. The Lords and Ladies of the last century walked with me along the overgrown paths, and picked the old fashioned flowers among the box and rose hedges of the garden.

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?

I'd give all the wealth that years have piled, the slow result of life's decay, To be once more a little child for one bright summer day.

That reminds me of something that happened to me when I was a kid.

I loved movies, growing up. They brought me so much joy.

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

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

Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.

I just yesterday returned from a trip where I photographed a woman with two children whom I photographed first when she was the age of the older of the two children.

I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings.

I think because I'm not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood.

My children are as at home in the Port Elgin library as I used to be, and they've sat in the cinema seats where I sat with their aunt every Saturday afternoon, watching the matinee movies.

I've met people who are baffled by children, as though they were never children themselves.

I did grow up in Kenosha, Wisconsin, around a lot of my mom's family. I had a lot of cousins and aunts and uncles around me, and my sisters and my brother. Probably the most formative part of it was that we grew up on the edge of a forest. It wasn't a big forest, but it was enough. When you're a kid, it feels gigantic.

Our children are not going to be just 'our children' - they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren.

I love comics. I like to do everything I used to do when I was 14-years-old.

Okay - before I even had a baby, I would dream of the day I could make ponytails on my kid. I don't know why. I somehow got it in my head that it would be such a cool thing.

One of the most important things in my childhood were the new books that came in. I feel sorry for kids today who have so many other options like television that they may not value books as much as they could enjoy them.

We had nothing, no television, no radio, nothing to get in the way. We read by the streetlight at the top of the lane, and we acted out the stories.

If you make a film about childhood, you've got to pick a moment - you know, 'The 400 Blows.'