Gilbert Hernandez Quotes

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.

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

I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.

More fundamentally, it is a dream that does not die with the onset of manhood: the dream is to play endlessly, past the time when you are called home for dinner, past the time of doing chores, past the time when your body betrays you past time itself.

That boundless freedom of childhood is so wonderful.

Every child dances, and then you learn not to.

I had the most magical childhood, running free and going anywhere I wanted to in my head.

If you play without the shackles and burdens, then you play like you did when you were a kid.

Every western I did and will do; I will do it for the never ending young kid inside of me.

Sendak's 1963 classic 'Where The Wild Things Are' has long been a favorite of mine because of the creative imagery, fantastic adventures and, most of all, because of how this timeless story shows us that children need to be free to roam, explore and invent in order to understand their place in the world that surrounds them.

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

I've never outgrown my childhood.

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

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

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.

I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.

I think that all of us either lose touch with the child inside us or try and hold onto it because it so precious to us and it's such an extraordinary part of our lives.

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.

They gave us the freedom just to play and have fun.

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

To be more childlike, you don't have to give up being an adult. The fully integrated person is capable of being both an adult and a child simultaneously. Recapture the childlike feelings of wide-eyed excitement, spontaneous appreciation, cutting loose, and being full of awe and wonder at this magnificent universe.

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

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

I saw no reason why childhood shouldn't last forever. So I created clothes that worked and moved and allowed people to run, to jump, to leap, to retain their precious freedom.

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.