Anne Murray Quotes

I think that's why I like baseball. There's something great about it - you're young, the pitcher's young and he's got this great arm, and he doesn't really realize anything about strategy.

When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.

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.

I only deal in what is real. To be honest, I've never thought about what I could get out of football or where it would take me. I just wanted to play. I'm the same now.

It is always easier to write from the heart and deal with things in the present.

I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.

Actors usually have a lot in common with kids.

We're children. We're supposed to be childish.

I think it's important for people to realize that we were all young, all naive, and also we had lived in a time that had magic.

We all know how to be a child.

Children hold spring so tightly in their brown fists-just as grownups, who are less sure of it, hold it in their hearts.

I try to believe like I believed when I was five...when your heart tells you everything you need to know.

They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.

Don't you ever grow up, it could stay this simple.

Everybody's twelve years old in an apple orchard.

Childhood is never troubled with foresight.

Aching familiar in a way that made me wish I was still eight. Eight was before death or divorce or heartbreak. Eight was just eight. Hot dogs and peanut butter, mosquito bites and splinters, bikes and boogie boards. Tangled hair, sunburned shoulders, Judy Blume, in bed by nine thirty.

May my heart always be open to little birds, who are the secrets of living. Whatever they sing is better than to know. And if men should not hear them - then men are old.

I was too young to take it all in. I was too young to even realize I was young. I was just living my life.

Life is bittersweet. Inside our heads, if we're lucky, we're the same kids as we were when we were young.

Golf got complicated when I had to wear shoes and begin thinking about what I was doing.

While making art you should just do what is in your heart.