John Buchan Quotes

Yes, but I don't think of the Teen Angel as of an age.

I can't pretend to be a teenager, but I feel like I never really stopped being a teenager.

I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.

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

She was not too young to be wise, but she was too young to know that wisdom shouldn't be spoken aloud when you are happy.

I just never want to completely grow up.

Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics.

Don't you think it's sometimes wise not to grow up.

When you're 18, 19, you think you know everything, but you have no clue about anything.

You couldn't pay me enough money to go back to being 20. So many tears; what a nightmare it was. It's much better being older.

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.

I'm a big kid, you know?

At times, I might have been too young; I might have been too naive at times and didn't understand who I really was to a whole culture.

We get older and more sophisticated and a bit cleverer, but certainly boys - and men - are as childish and basic as we ever were.

We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.

When you grow up, people don't speak the truth. You can see, when you trust people, you help them.

When I was younger, I was kind of fearless. I think it takes more courage to do things when you know more. I was completely naive, and I was like, 'Why can't I do anything I want to do?'

I tend to go for these half-little-boy characters.

I suppose you always look back at how easier things were being young. There's always a shame that you're not as naive as you were.

It's funny: 'Next Thing' was written in a time of my life when I was actually really naive and thought that I was wise.

I think I'm a little less naive than SpongeBob can sometimes seem to be.

Listen, when I was real young, I thought I was made out of steel. I didn't think anything could hurt me, I was so powerful. But as time goes on, you find out you are not made of steel.

I regret losing my innocence so early.

I'd hate to be too grown-up. That would be dull.

When we are older we are very smart, but when we are younger we don't think we are happy, we have all of life ahead of us.