Jonathan Kozol Quotes

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

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.

Children live in a world filled with possibilities. Their thoughts roam without boundaries, like dreams – full of images, places and actions. Unlike adults, they can’t temper their imaginations with experience. So, when a child plays with a toy or reads a story, it becomes an adventure, a new reality to them.

When you're a kid, you should be a kid.

Children haven't changed - the world around them has. Their basic natures haven't changed. They like ice creams. They like to have fun, play games if they get space.

When I was 15, I still liked climbing trees and hiding in cupboards.

There's nothing like young children's energy... They are always curious, and enthusiastic about many different things.

I love child things because there's so much mystery when you're a child.

We should always do something that makes us feel like a child again. Keep learning, no matter what it is.

To have a childhood means to live a thousand lives before the one.

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

Childhood is a long, long road, from which that dark whispering forest of death seems an impossible destination.

Childhood is not a state which only applies to the first phase of our lives in the biological sense. Rather it is a basic condition which is always appropriate to a life that is lived aright.

Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood.

A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.

I had a pretty sexual imagination for a kid.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

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.

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!

One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

I could always flip between emotions and be available to suddenly do something new. I think it's a part of playing, and you hang onto it when you're a kid.

The funny thing about children is that, whichever room we're in, that's where they'll be. If I'm in the bath, they'll want to be in there too, playing with the toothbrush pot or brushing my hair.

I think I am a child. Everything blows my mind.

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

I'm still very much a kid inside myself.