Charles Dickens Quotes

I feel it's like being a kid and dressing up, because that's what Baby Jane is.

Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.

My first record was about childhood. There were a lot of nursery rhyme and fairytale references; it was all about being naive.

The walls of our upstairs hallway testify that we once had photogenic children. There are rows of framed pictures that show them playing baseball, basketball, holding a toad, and smiling in the sunlight at their eager parents. Everything is orderly and bright.

There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory.

Childhood often holds a truth with its feeble finger, which the grasp of manhood cannot retain,--which it is the pride of utmost age to recover.

It's like being a little kid again, parading around in a nightgown tucked into your underpants, believing it looks terrific.

I wonder if childhood is ever really happy. Just as well, perhaps. To be blissfully happy so young would leave one always seeking to recapture the unobtainable. Like those people who were always happiest at school or university. Always going back. No reunion ever missed. It always seemed to me rather pathetic.

There is nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. ... Time, self-pity, apathy, bitterness, and exhaustion can take the Christmas out of the child, but you cannot take the child out of Christmas.

Childhood candor... shall I ever find you again?

My chest got this weird feeling, like when you stare into the eyes of a little baby and the baby looks back up at you and you can feel how pure and innocent it is, so much that it makes your stomach feel empty - probably 'cause you realize you used to be pure like that, too, and now you're not.

I've been thinking about it, and that poem, that guy that wrote it, he meant you're gold when you're a kid, like green. When you're a kid everything's new, dawn. It's just when you get used to everything that it's day. Like the way you dig sunsets, Pony. That's gold. Keep that way, it's a good way to be.

When I was little the sky was closer.

I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.

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

I never had any boyhood ambitions.

What can be done when you’re eleven can often never be done again.

All who remember their childhood remember the strange vague sense, when some new experience came, that everything else was going to be changed, and that there would be no lapse into the old monotony.

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.

Here's to Never Growing up

The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false map of the world, a series of fabulous countries into which one can retreat at odd moments throughout the rest of life, and which in some cases can survive a visit to the real countries which they are supposed to represent.

Is the world all grown up? Is childhood dead? Or is there not in the bosom of the wisest and the best some of the child's heart left, to respond to its earliest enchantments?

Childhood is the small town everyone came from.

And true love waits In haunted attics And true love lives On lollipops and crisps

I’m still very much a kid inside myself.