Ellen Hopkins Quotes

Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water! Ye happy mixture of more happy days!

Come clean with a child heart Laugh as peaches in the summer wind Let rain on a house roof be a song Let the writing on your face be a smell of apple orchards on late June.

Life was just a tire swing. 'Jambalaya' was the only song I could sing. Blackberry pickin', eatin' fried chicken, And I never knew a thing about pain. Life was just a tire swing.

I envy my daughter's childhood.

In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was.

I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I was living peaceably when people began to speak bad of me. Now I can eat well, sleep well and be glad. I can go everywhere with a good feeling.

I think we all miss our childhood.

When you're young you have no worries, no drama, only your imagination. It's the best!

I just like being a kid. I enjoy it, I don't want to grow up.

The happiest moment was when I just played with a ball as a boy, carefree, without worrying about anything.

When you're really laughing, you feel like a little kid, and nothing matters.

At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family. My mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father helped Caleb with his homework. There was a fire in the fireplace and peace in my heart, as I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing, and everything was quiet. I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free.

Love, wonder, joy & awareness are the gifts of innocence.

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

I had a picture-perfect childhood.

Running around when I was a kid was a really happy time; a time when getting home for dinner or for sleep were my only responsibilities.

Simple pleasures were all the pleasures that I knew as a child.

Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.

I can run free here. I can go back to being a kid.

Oh, to be home again, home again, home again! Under the apple-boughs, down by the mill!

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

I grew up in a wood cabin on Puget Sound in Manchester, Wash. My family taught me to appreciate the arts and the outdoors, and I still yearn for the absolute silence I experienced there when I was young.

The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance.