Kevin Brockmeier Quotes

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

Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.

A lot of things you see as a child remain with you... you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience.

I always cling to things that remind me of being a kid again.

He who sings the praises of his boyhood's days.

Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us.

Don't you wish you could take a single childhood memory and blow it up into a bubble and live inside it forever?

Drawn to childhood, the old man will seek it in a thousand different ways.

I said: I must remember this, being small.

When I was little the sky was closer.

You go back. You search for what made you happy when you were smaller. We are all grown up children, really... So one should go back and search for what was loved and found to be real.

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

The older you get, the more you find yourself looking for things you used to see and liked when you were younger.

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 remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.

At night I dream about going to where I played when I was still young.

I feel it was just a few years ago I was running around in short pants.

I don't yearn to be a child again.

Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?

Me? I'm going to grow backwards and be a kid again.

When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance.

The kids are so much fun. I'm always taking a look over at what they're doing because it reminds me of when I was so small before.

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

I remember myself, age five, sitting on a porch overlooking a very muddy road. The day was rainy. I was wearing rubber boots, yellow - no, not yellow, green - and for all I know, I'm still there.