Heraclitus Quotes

Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies.

The child ever dwells in the mystery of ageless time,unobscured by the dust of history.

Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child.

Time is a game played beautifully by children.

I had a teacher in Paris, who said that if an actor forgot what it's like to play as a child he shouldn't be an actor. I've always loved being with children. It's marvellous to see the fresh ways they see the world. Watching them look at a tree or a river helps you to understand something that's very important.

It says, I think, that at root that we're children, or we'd like to be. And the best of us each keep as much of that childhood with us as we grow into adulthood, as we can muster... And even after we're past the point of being able to play the game with any skill, if we love it, then it's like Peter Pan - we remain boys forever, we don't die.

Young children give us glimpses of some things that are eternal.

age means nothing. If anything I feel that I'm still a child: eternity and childhood are my ages.

The child in us is always there, you know, and it's the best part of us, the winged part that travels farthest.

Be a child again. Flirt. Giggle. Dip your cookies in your milk. Take a nap. Say you're sorry if you hurt someone. Chase a butterfly. Be a child again.

Just try to stay a child as long as you can. Don't force into adulthood.

The soul is healed by being with children.

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

Mr. Disney believed everyone was still a child deep inside.

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Whenever I look at a baby or children in general, I smile and just want to play with them.

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

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

Secretly, I'm a 5-year-old.

The child race is fresh, eager, interested, innocent, imaginative, healthy and full of faith, where the adult race, more often than not, is stale, spiritually debauched, unimaginative, unhealthy, and without faith.

Eternity is full of thrones, upon which dwell thousands of children reigning on thrones of glory, with not one cubit added to their stature.

Learn to get excited like a child. There is nothing that has more magic than childish excitement.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

In everything was the spirit of children's play - not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.

We think that play and fairytales belong to childhood - how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time in our life to live without play and fairytales! We give these things other names, to be sure, and feel differently about them, but precisely this is the evidence that they are the same things, for the child too regards play as his work and fairy tales as his truth. The brevity of life ought to preserve us from a pedantic division of life into different stages - as though each brought something new.