Matt Groening Quotes

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

I find it strange when people can't relate to kids, because you were a kid once, you know?

I've met people who are baffled by children, as though they were never children themselves.

I don't ever want to grow up. That's boring.

At 20 years old, I was better at playing with toys than I was as a kid.

To grow up is to wonder about things; to be grown up is to slowly forget the things you wondered about as a child.

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

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

I couldn't wait until I grew up. I used to look at my mom's stockings and put them on with her high heels and mess with my hair.

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

There's this assumption that all children have the luxury of a childhood where their innocence is always respected and their main occupation is pleasant play - at the age of 18 or 21, they are then thrust into the real world and shown its uglier side, but not before.

I definitely want to grow intelligently, but I do want to stay a kid forever!

I've been able to play a kid up to this point and pretend that I'm not a grown-up - well, at least for two hours a night!

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names.

Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

I don't yearn to be a child again.

I think because I'm not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood.

When you're in an industry where you're forced to grow up so quickly, part of you never grows up, and that's a good thing.

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.

But the dream is never forgotten, only put aside and never out of reach: Where once the dream connected boys with the world of men, now it reconnects men with the spirit of boys.

When you're a child, it's easy to see school as the worst thing in the world. It's only later in life you realise what a wonderful time it was. Looking back, I can't believe I even wanted to leave.