Jasper Carrott Quotes

When you're six years old, you don't look at things the way an adult looks at things.

It's hard to think of a 16-month child being anything other than a delight to be around.

The human brain is by no means fully formed at birth. It continues to shape itself through life, with the most intense growth occurring during childhood.

I'm scarcely an enfant!

I wasn't a child at 13, were you?

A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportunity to be a child, so they hold on to that and still do a lot of childish, silly things.

Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.

The kids who speak well, are articulate and intelligent, are all readers.

In play, a child is always above his average age, above his daily behavior; in play, it is as though he were a head taller than himself.

I'm 12 years old in my head.

When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.

Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.

I feel like I'm going backwards, actually, as I get older. I'm regressing. I feel more and more like a kid, which is kind of a fun feeling.

I never grew up.

At age three, if you have a still-growing brain, it's a human behavior. In chimps, by age three, the brain is formed over 90 percent. That's why they can cope with their environment very easily after birth - faster than us, anyway. But in humans, we continue to grow our brains. That's why we need care from our parents.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

I remember how much - when I was a small boy I was taken to see a version of 'Peter Pan.' I detested it. I mean, the sentimental idea that anybody would want to remain a boy.

I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

It's kind of fun being the cute, little one. In fact, I'm finding it hard to grow out of that.

I don't ever want to grow up. That's boring.

Poor little queen. She is at an age at which a girl can hardly be entrusted to choose a bonnet for herself, yet a task is laid upon her from which an archangel might shrink.

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.

Think about when you were 12 or 13. The stuff I watched was awful! I tried to watch a 'He-Man' cartoon recently, and I was like, 'Oh my God!' I just had, like, a small brain. I was stupid.