Adam Neumann Quotes

There was a lot of beauty in my childhoood.

Everybody's twelve years old in an apple orchard.

I've never outgrown my childhood.

You know, it's kind of hard because I really - I see kids on their Rollerblades and their bikes, and just running around, climbing trees, and I used to do that. And I loved doing that.

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

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.

Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children.

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.

The happiest days of my youth were when my brother and I would run through the woods and feel quite safe.

The happiest moment was when I just played with a ball as a boy, carefree, without worrying about anything.

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

I still think I'm playing back home in the street in my town with my mates. That's why I love the game, and mostly, I don't pay too much attention to social media or look at stuff that's out there.

When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.

If I could repeat my childhood, I would repeat it exactly as it was, with the poverty, the cold, little food, with the flies and pigs, all that.

Come clean with a child heart Laugh as peaches in the summer wind Let rain on a house roof be a song Let the writing on your face be a smell of apple orchards on late June.

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.

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

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

I'm still very much a kid inside myself.

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

As a child, the paddy field was my playground.

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

A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.