Jenny Downham Quotes

To be honest, Peter Pan was one of those fairy tales that I sort of related to, and I think that's the case with a lot of kids. The whole idea of escapism really resonates with a lot of kids.

All my life I've wanted to be the kid who gets to cross over into the magical kingdom.

I envy my daughter's childhood.

As a child, I dreamed that my bed could fly and glide and swoop and hover high over the countryside near my home while, snug and secure, I looked down in wonder at the great carpet of life that seemed so perfect beneath me.

I've never outgrown my childhood.

Sometimes I think I am still that 5-year-old girl playing with her dogs in the yard. That's how I see myself.

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 never realized until recently how much my life parallels Peter Pan.

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

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

To be honest, Peter Pan was one of those fairy tales that I sort of related to, and I think that's the case with a lot of kids.

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

I think we all miss our childhood.

When you're around kids you can be a little kid yourself and pretend that life is magic and you don't have to be one of those sweaty people going to work every day.

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

There is a child in all of us.

I need the lightness of children's lit.

I guess when we're young, we all have that fascination with flying.

As kids, we lived in this magical world and roamed free in the gardens. I was obsessed with 'Alice in Wonderland.' My dad cut the hedges so that they started shorter and grew taller, so I could run up and down and feel like I was shrinking.

There was a lot of beauty in my childhoood.

That's one of the great gifts of this, the greatest of all games, baseball: it allows you, still, to lose yourself in a dream, to feel and remember a season of life when summer never seemed to die and the assault of cynicism hadn't begun to batter optimism.

'In Ear Park' perfectly encapsulates the beauty of youth for me.

When I draw, I always recall my mindset when I was a child.

It's an amazing thing to be able to fall into the world of your childhood fantasy.

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.