Betty Smith Quotes

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don't. They just want the fun of eating it all over again.

I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older and now I'm spending my adulthood wishing I were younger.

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

I don't yearn to be a child again.

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 suppose you always look back at how easier things were being young. There's always a shame that you're not as naive as you were.

'In Ear Park' perfectly encapsulates the beauty of youth for me.

It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader.

Childhood. I wish I had something to complain about.

Drawn to childhood, the old man will seek it in a thousand different ways.

Remember when we didn't live in the future? When we were young, it was not the future yet.

If cynicism is inevitable as one ages, so is the yearning for innocence. To children heaven is being an adult, and to adults heaven is being children again.

I envy my daughter's childhood.

I never want to grow up.

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

I feel it was just a few years ago I was running around in short pants.

In reality, I never want to grow up.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Look at life with the eyes of a child.

Me? I'm going to grow backwards and be a kid again.

I think we all miss our childhood.

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

I am forever living in my childhood.