John Ruskin Quotes

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

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

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

I don't yearn to be a child again.

Once upon a time the world was sweeter than we knew. Everything was ours; how happy we were then, but then once upon a time never comes again.

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.

My mom and dad always tried to make Christmas special for us. We were poor, but it's funny because we had no idea.

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

Childhood. I wish I had something to complain about.

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.

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

If I had my life to live over, I'd pick more daisies.

(...) Since I was a kid." "Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.'" "Right.

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.

You can remember times when you were a kid, when life looked too doggoned deliciously beautiful to be left alone. So you could feel like that again if you worked at it.

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.

Dear, sweet, unforgettable childhood!

I envy my daughter's childhood.

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

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

I never needed much, and I never thought I'd get more than what I had. A trip to Burger King was the biggest thing in the world to me. Heaven.

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.