Bruce McCulloch Quotes

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.

Don't you ever grow up, it could stay this simple.

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

In reality, I never want to grow up.

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

We're all still kids when it comes to baseball.

We're children. We're supposed to be childish.

I think it's important for people to realize that we were all young, all naive, and also we had lived in a time that had magic.

When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.

We all know how to be a child.

Children hold spring so tightly in their brown fists-just as grownups, who are less sure of it, hold it in their hearts.

They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.

Everybody's twelve years old in an apple orchard.

Childhood is never troubled with foresight.

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 I was young my heart was young then, too. And anything that it would tell me, that's the thing that I would do.

I was too young to take it all in. I was too young to even realize I was young. I was just living my life.

Life is bittersweet. Inside our heads, if we're lucky, we're the same kids as we were when we were young.

I never examined what I did in any great detail because I thought it would spoil things. I never read the scripts at all carefully, and never wanted to know what was going on, because I felt that being a benevolent alien that's the way it should be.

I envy my daughter's childhood.

I never want to grow up.

Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.

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

The best substitute for experience is being sixteen.