Paulo Coelho Quotes

You get to relive your childhood when you have a baby and you see these toys and these books you read when you were little - the innocence that you are able to maintain because you have to find that again in order to connect with your child keeps you in a special state of mind.

I loved movies, growing up. They brought me so much joy.

Some things, I think, like fairy books and secret doors, are only meant to be found by children.

As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy.

Everyone loves Disney, it just has a special place in everyone's heart.

The summer of 1943 at Exeter was as happy a time as I ever had in my life.

My childhood was such an odd one, but with such magic, and the quirky grown-ups who were in it managed to still bring a huge sense of love and magic, so for that I'm really grateful.

For a child everything is wonderful, be it going to a fair or visting a temple with parents. This happiness and enthusiasm needs to reflect in my writing.

Artless fairy stories enchant us in our first years and retain their hold on us until our last.

I think being a kid is a wonderful thing, and I don't want to speed up that process any more.

I like things that make me feel seven again. I don't ever look down on people for the way they choose to have fun; it's just not necessarily the way I like to have fun.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Memories of childhood were the dreams that stayed with you after you woke.

But nothing warps time quite like childhood

Being with a kid always takes you to being a kid somehow, and they really are showing me a childhood I might not have had in some way.

Enjoy a 'world' where the fantastic is fact and magic really works!

Babies do not want to hear about babies; they like to be told of giants and castles.

The magic of childhood is the strangeness of childhood — the uniqueness that makes us see things that other people don't see.

There is such a place as fairyland - but only children can find the way to it...until they have grown so old that they forget the way. Only a few, who remain children at heart, can ever find that fair, lost path again...The world calls them singers and poets and artists and story-tellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.

Happy season of childhood! Kind Nature, that art to all a bountiful mother; that visitest the poor man's hut With auroral radiance; and for thy nursling hast provided a soft swathing of love and infinite hope wherein he waxes and slumbers, danced round by sweetest dreams!

It's been such a huge part of my life, it's hard for me to separate it out. All I can say is that I had an extraordinary childhood. I was around these amazing people and went to exotic locations. The whole movie-making thing is so magical.

Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal. The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations.

Many children fly like birds, guess other people's dreams, and speak with ghosts, but ... they all outgrow it when they lose their innocence.

He had read books, newspapers and magazines. He knew that if you ran away you sometimes met bad people who did bad things to you; but he had also read fairy tales, so he knew that there were kind people out there, side by side with the monsters.

When you're touched by magic, nothing's ever quite the same again. What really makes me sad is all those people who never have the chance to know that touch. They're too busy, or they just don't hold with make-believe, so they shut the door without really knowing it was there to be opened in the first place.