Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes

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

My mother cooked her last Christmas standing rib roast in 1987 and died a few weeks afterward.

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

What shaped me the most would probably be when my dad passed away. For the rest of my life, I'll kind of feel like he's gonna come home.

Anyone who doesn't miss the past never had a mother.

I had a wonderful family including my aunts, uncles and cousins but they've all gone to heaven.

I had a picture-perfect childhood.

Yes, I always remember my dad's, mom's and my grandma's perfumes.

My earliest memories are the best. I always try to remember the good times when Daddy was alive.

I really miss Gunsmoke. It was like losing my whole family.

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

I'm a really nostalgic person. I love taking photos and video and having memories. I remember all my childhood videos that my dad used to take. I think that's really what life is about - especially when you start a family of your own.

Probably the best part of my life has been watching the kids play their games.

There are days when I wonder why my mom couldn't be here to see this.

Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.

This house was our dream-the gardens, the study, even the swimming pool. Even though I can't see John when I wake up in the morning, I can always feel him here with me.

I think we all miss our childhood.

Learning of my father's passing at age 55 not only shattered the world, far from home, that had become my reality, but catapulted my childhood and relationship with family - which had felt like another lifetime - into the present.

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.

I would give anything to sit down with my maternal grandmother and have a cup of tea and play Scrabble. She died 10 years ago.

The last time I saw my mom was in 1997. My mom started getting sick, and my mom finally passed away in 2002. My mom was my world. My mom was everything to me. We didn't have money. We didn't have a whole lot of materialistic things, but one thing I can truly say, that my mother loved me and all of her children unconditionally.

As I look back, I have to say growing up was fun, not a problem at all.

I think about my mom every day.

When I was little, I would sing all around the house.

What I have got from my childhood aren't toys, but memories. And happy memories are better than any toy.