Johnny Mercer Quotes

Not even the brightest future can make up for the fact that no roads lead back to what came before - to the innocence of childhood or the first time we fell in love.

I walked over to the hill where we used to go and sled. There were a lot of little kids there. I watched them flying. Doing jumps and having races. And I thought that all those little kids are going to grow up someday. And all of those little kids are going to do the things that we do. And they will all kiss someone someday. But for now, sledding is enough. I think it would be great if sledding were always enough, but it isn't.

Days of wine and roses laugh and run away, like a child at play.

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

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.

With my mom and dad around, I became a child yet again.

Don't you wish you could take a single childhood memory and blow it up into a bubble and live inside it forever?

What do you suppose makes all men look back to the time of childhood with so much regret (if their childhood has been, in any moderate degree, healthy or peaceful)? That rich charm, which the least possession had for us, was in consequence of the poorness of our treasures.

I think it reminds me of my childhood, my father, .. I think people have the same reaction. It reminds you of what it was like to be a kid, where everything is carefree and fun.

You go back. You search for what made you happy when you were smaller. We are all grown up children, really... So one should go back and search for what was loved and found to be real.

The older I get, the more I appreciate my childhood. It was paradise.

Dear, sweet, unforgettable childhood!

I envy my daughter's childhood.

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

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

I had a picture-perfect childhood.

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.

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

As a child, the paddy field was my playground.

I would like to have seen my sons growing up.

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

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

I don't yearn to be a child again.

Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?

I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy.