Flannery O'Connor Quotes

I was growing, so I had to scrunch my feet up. Now people are like: "Why do you have so many shoes." I jump at the fact that I can wear something new everyday.

Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be.

Children are happy because they don't yet have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong." They don't have a mind-set that puts "Things to Fear" before "Things to Love." Unless we can be like little children, we can't enter into the kingdom of heaven; unless we can be like little children, we can't be happy. Children are happy because they don't have all the facts yet.

Childhood, whose very happiness is love.

Out of the sky, the birds, the parrots, the bells, silk, cloth, and drums, out of Sundays dancing, children's words and love words, out of love for the little fists of children, I will build a world, my world with round shoulders.

A house is never perfectly furnished for enjoyment unless there is a child in it rising three years old, and a kitten rising three weeks.

I love kids; I think they are fun and funny.

I love kids. I just love kids. They put you in a good mood and they are so full of life.

I do have a childlike enthusiasm at times. I certainly enjoy life and get pleasure sometimes in childish things.

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

A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Success, for me, is being able to wake up in the morning and feel like a 12 year old.

I love being around kids, and I love to see them happy.

With my mom and dad around, I became a child yet again.

The happiest moment was when I just played with a ball as a boy, carefree, without worrying about anything.

Kids are the best thing ever.

In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child.

One of the injustices of the world was that it was so easy to make the innocent and caring ones happy with so little.

He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass.

One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still.

Babies don't know who's rich and who's poor. You love 'em and they're happy.

Let's say I hope that I appeal to the more carefree times in a person's life rather than to his reasoning adulthood. I'd just like to be an image that reminds someone of joy rather than of the problems of the world.

A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.