Robert Frost Quotes

One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

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.

Everybody's twelve years old in an apple orchard.

As a child, the paddy field was my playground.

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

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

When I was a kid, we played outside until we couldn't see and had to go in. I rode my bicycle and played tag football, kick the can, and hide-and-go-seek.

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

I was very physical as a child - we lived on a smallholding, and I was always outside making mud pies or building structures up trees.

There was a lot of beauty in my childhoood.

I'm really thankful for the time that I grew up in that we didn't have cell phones, and we made a lot of our own fun.

I remember how much fun it was to be a child in the kibbutz.

Somewhere beyond the sink-hole, past the magnolia, under the live oaks, a boy and a yearling ran side by side, and were gone forever.

I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~ And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

When we were children we were errant enough to wish to be birds for the day but there's nothing easier to lose than playfulness.

...and again she wished for Sherwood, and the dappled roof of leaves that never weighed upon her. She pulled her scarf closer around her and thought, I would rather live in a hut in the woods; a hut like the one of my first memories, with a clean-swept dirt floor, and a brown-eyed boy watching me from behind his mother's skirts as I watched him from behind mine.

As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.

I envy my daughter's childhood.

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

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

Oh, to be home again, home again, home again! Under the apple-boughs, down by the mill!

When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.

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

I was a typical American boy. I did a lot of outdoor activities, played a lot outside with my friends, loved to go the beach, liked to hike, boating and fishing, and I flew a lot of model airplanes as well.

I came from a house full of books, so I took reading for granted. I was an outdoorsy little kid, too, so I got the best of both worlds by taking books up trees and reading there.