Raheem Sterling Quotes

Let's say I hope that I appeal to the more carefree times in a person's life rather than to his reasoning adulthood. I'd just like to be an image that reminds someone of joy rather than of the problems of the world.

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.

My favourite memory was the first time my mum bought me a bubble blower. I must have been the happiest girl in the world that day. I was all over those bubbles like a moth to a flame.

I'm out there having as good a time as I did in the backyard since I was five-years-old.

Life was just a tire swing. 'Jambalaya' was the only song I could sing. Blackberry pickin', eatin' fried chicken, And I never knew a thing about pain. Life was just a tire swing.

Everybody's twelve years old in an apple orchard.

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.

Even if you have nothing in your wallet, nothing can keep you from having a great summer. You can listen to crickets sing you to sleep, trace the Big Dipper, breathe in the stars, run through a sprinkler, host a cartwheel contest in the front yard.

Fun is carefree. I am not carefree.

'Have fun' is my message. Be silly. You're allowed to be silly. There's nothing wrong with it.

Get up and dance, get up and smile, get up and drink to the days that are gone in the shortest while.

You know, we had that groove; I didn't feel no way.

You know, it's kind of hard because I really - I see kids on their Rollerblades and their bikes, and just running around, climbing trees, and I used to do that. And I loved doing that.

As a kid, my grandma would be dancing all the time.

As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy.

Life must be lived as play.

I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place.

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

I'm singing in the rain, just singing in the rain; What a wonderful feeling, I'm happy again.

Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children.

When you're young you have no worries, no drama, only your imagination. It's the best!

The happiest days of my youth were when my brother and I would run through the woods and feel quite safe.

For people who don't love running, they don't understand - but I never feel like anyone is putting a gun to my head to go out for a run. I feel like a kid going out to play - that feeling of when you had a bike as a kid and you'd go out and just ride and be free and have fun.

I remember, when I was a kid, my summers were pretty much running around, riding your bike, and then complaining about you were bored.