Constance Marie Quotes

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.

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

At night I dream about going to where I played when I was still young.

My daughter gets to paint my nails and put clips in my hair, and I love it.

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

I always cling to things that remind me of being a kid again.

Reading 'IT' again as an adult, you understand it from a different perspective. It is basically a love letter to childhood and talks about all of the treasures of that time, like imagination and belief, that are inevitably lost in adulthood.

I love kids; I think they are fun and funny.

I envy my daughter's childhood.

Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid?

As a little girl I loved the thought of playing dress-up and getting ready.

I am sure that the sad days and happenings were rare, and that I lived the joyous and careless life of other children; but just because the happy days were so habitual to me they made no impression upon my mind, and I can no longer recall them.

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

The funny thing about children is that, whichever room we're in, that's where they'll be. If I'm in the bath, they'll want to be in there too, playing with the toothbrush pot or brushing my hair.

I was thinking that when I have children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella. It would be totally messed up!

But the truth is I wanted to have my daughter for so long. It's not the kind of thing you can visit, motherhood. Especially in the early years. Now she's eight, and I'm still not going to go anywhere.

There's nothing I liked visually of the period I was a child. There was no dream in it, and nothing sparkled.

Childhood smells of perfume and brownies.

Growing up with my family gave me some of my best memories. I'd like to have a family of my own - slip away for a bit and do nothing but spend those early years with my children.

I've been writing an ongoing letter to my children since they were born, full of recollections of their childhoods. I've filled two journals. It's a great thing to do as a mother - you forget a lot as you go along, but reading over what you've written brings all the memories back.

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

For me, baseball just brings up a lot of nostalgic, happy feelings because I enjoyed it as a kid, and I liked being out there playing in the sun, and it was a simpler time for all of us.

When I was nine, I had this girlfriend and we used to have running races in the park. I wanted to be like Superman and fly in and rescue her.

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