Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

When I was a kid, I thought it was tough.

When I went to Munich, I was perhaps a little too young.

I remember watching Romeo + Juliet when I was 14 and listening to the soundtrack. When I hear that soundtrack now, all those emotions come back. It's really beautiful when you're at a certain point in your life where most of the adventure lies ahead of you. And it's a sad thing when you feel like you've lost that. But you can get it back.

I do remember being young.

Children are very addicting. Once they start growing up, you miss when they were little.

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

I was 13 and at summer camp when I had my first kiss.

I have just one black and white photograph left of my mother when she was younger. She was 17 when it was taken and beautiful with wispy curls and eyes that shone like dark marbles.

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

I loved high school, but I wouldn't want to do it again.

Then again, I think about high school every day and I think about being a little kid every day too.

It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader.

I remember when I used to be really into nostalgia.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

[Paper Girls] is very much is about how we are thinking about our past and growing up.

Like the morning you walked out of that old house, when you were eighteen and I was, well, I had just turned nineteen, hadn't I? I was a nineteen-year-old and I was in love with Louis and I was in love with you, and I thought I had never seen anything so beautiful as the sight of you walking out a glass door in the early morning, still sleepy, in your underwear. Isn't it strange?

There is nothing fine about being a child: it is fine, when we are old, to look back to when we were children.

When we are young... we often experience things in the present with a nostalgia-in-advance, but we seldom guess what we will truly prize years from now.

The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.

I said: I must remember this, being small.

And if I say to you that I am glad of everything we have done together, and sorry that we will not be here together in forty years, laughing at a faded photo of you impersonating a lion, it having withered well, you less so, as we stand fabulously old, in a city that understands what spirit it takes to be old, to be beautiful, to be much looked at, to be itself, to be never quite caught, to have a past, to be content, to have seen much, to have remained, to have continued...

If it seems like I've been lost in 'lets remember', If it seems I'm gettin' older and missin' my younger days, well you shoulda known me much better, cause the past is something that never got in my way.

Nothing is a waste that makes a memory.

When her muzzle grew more white than brown, the chipmunk forgot that she and the squirrel had had nothing to talk about. She forgot the definition of "jazz" as well and came to think of it as every beautiful thing she had ever failed to appreciate: the taste of warm rain; the smell of a baby; the din of a swollen river, rushing past her tree and onward to infinity.

Everything looks more beautiful in retrospect.