Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes

As ephemeral as our footprints were in the sand along the river, so also were those moments of childhood caught in the photographs. And so will be our family itself, our marriage, the children who enriched it and the love that has carried us through so much. All this will be gone. What we hope will remain are these pictures, telling our brief story.

I had a picture-perfect childhood.

I have such strong memories of my Daddy.

A handsome period of my childhood was spent at our house in Tollygunge.

When I remember bygone days I think how evening follows morn So many I loved were not yet dead, So many I love were not yet born.

When I dig back through memory cells, I get one particularly distinctive feeling-and that's one of warmth, comfort and well-being. For whatever else I may have had, or lost, or will find-I've still got a hometown. This, nobody's gonna take away from me.

'The Secret Garden' was the first musical that I fell in love with when I was a kid. My mom took me to see it, and it was the first one that I owned the soundtrack to and listened to over and over again.

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

I find that it's the simple things that remind you of family around the holidays.

I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.

I go down to my little hut, where it's tight and dark and warm, and within minutes I can go back to being six or seven or eight again.

I carry a disposable camera. It takes me back to my childhood, when you had to develop your film and wait to see what pictures you got.

I remember way back when I was young, 10 years ago.

I feel it was just a few years ago I was running around in short pants.

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.

Then my uncle would give off the smell of freshly baked bread which I love.

When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.

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've never returned to the locations. I do remember certain days more clearly than others and certain locations with a sense of nostalgia. Perhaps one day, I'll bring my daughter to see them, if she's interested.

'E.T.' was a healing movie; it was a heart movie. It was all about getting about getting home and love.

I have very vivid memories of my mother reading to us as kids.

Even as a child, you can recognise the innocence of Piglet or the strange adult qualities of Eeyore. You just know you are with friends and family.

I am forever living in my childhood.

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