Neil Simon Quotes

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.

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

Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be.

I envy my daughter's childhood.

I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

I think we all miss our childhood.

I just like being a kid. I enjoy it, I don't want to grow up.

When you're really laughing, you feel like a little kid, and nothing matters.

I could run nearly naked on a hot, windy beach and plunge without care into a running diamond sea; roll on the sand and fling my arms wide to the sun and still be what I was...young.

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

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.

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.

Do you hear the children singing?

Everybody's twelve years old in an apple orchard.

You can remember times when you were a kid, when life looked too doggoned deliciously beautiful to be left alone. So you could feel like that again if you worked at it.

For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds.

Be a child again. Flirt. Giggle. Dip your cookies in your milk. Take a nap. Say you're sorry if you hurt someone. Chase a butterfly. Be a child again.

It's so important and easy to be a kid at heart.

Simple pleasures were all the pleasures that I knew as a child.

For me, baseball just brings up a lot of nostalgic, happy feelings because I enjoyed it as a kid, and I liked being out there playing in the sun, and it was a simpler time for all of us.

I can run free here. I can go back to being a kid.

I do think kids should be kids. You have the rest of your life to be an adult.

Laughter brings out the child in all of us.