Robert Frost Quotes

If I could repeat my childhood, I would repeat it exactly as it was, with the poverty, the cold, little food, with the flies and pigs, all that.

As a child, the paddy field was my playground.

I've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about black widow spiders or all that stuff. But writing about that is so easy.

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

When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.

Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be.

...and again she wished for Sherwood, and the dappled roof of leaves that never weighed upon her. She pulled her scarf closer around her and thought, I would rather live in a hut in the woods; a hut like the one of my first memories, with a clean-swept dirt floor, and a brown-eyed boy watching me from behind his mother's skirts as I watched him from behind mine.

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

Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later, like childhood toys forgotten at the bottom of a crammed adult closet, but they are never lost for good.

One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

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

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

I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there.

It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there.

A lot of things you see as a child remain with you... you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience.

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

I remember being with my mum eating marmalade on toast watching 'Inspector Gadget,' 'Sharky and George,' 'The Pink Panther,' and 'Thundercats,' stuff like that. Those were the days - no idea how brutal the world is.

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

I am still the same village girl from Dhing who used to help my father in the paddy field, help mother in household chores, run for hours on the streets of Dhing, play football with my Mon Jai group friends.

I remember how much fun it was to be a child in the kibbutz.

Childhood. I wish I had something to complain about.

Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us.

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

Memories of childhood were the dreams that stayed with you after you woke.

Being with a kid always takes you to being a kid somehow, and they really are showing me a childhood I might not have had in some way.