William E. Vaughan Quotes

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

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

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.

The world is so different for a child, waking in the mornings, wide-eyed and ready to take it all in.

I'm still a kid inside, and adventure is adventure wherever you find it.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

I don't care what town you're born in, what city, what country. If you're a child, you are curious about your environment. You're overturning rocks. You're plucking leaves off of trees and petals off of flowers, looking inside, and you're doing things that create disorder in the lives of the adults around you.

Children should enjoy the few years they have just being a kid.

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.

There is a child inside me that wants to come out and do something to surprise all the adults.

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

I loved the idea of seeing the world through a boy's eyes.

My memories of being nine or ten years old are especially vivid, since this is the time when you have a real sense of who you are - before the self-conscious preteen years start.

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

Sometimes random things that you wouldn't think mean anything mean so much to them. With kids, you can say, 'Let's go pick some flowers' or 'There's a snail. Let's investigate that.'

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

Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.

Being a kid and growing up is such a cool part of life. When you're young, you have no worries, no drama, only your imagination. It's the best!

I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to life.

It's such a potent thing, to be a kid. We grow up, and we don't want to remember how everything is so beautiful and terrifying when we're young. The older you get, the more you hope to muffle things.

I dig in the sand, and I play with pretty pictures, so I never really left kindergarten.

I adore kids. I enjoy everything that they bring to the party. They just say what they think.

I'm really, basically, nine, and I've always been that. I've never, ever allowed the child within me to die.

I love kids - they're so carefree and always put a smile on my face.