Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

There is always in the healthy mind an obscure prompting that religion teaches us rather to dig than to climb; that if we could once understand the common clay of earth we should understand everything. Similarly, we have the sentiment that if we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse. This is the great truth which has always lain at the back of baby-worship, and which will support it to the end.

Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.

I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.

In reality, I never want to grow up.

Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.

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

I just like being a kid. I enjoy it, I don't want to grow up.

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

I aspire to feel like a child, how about that!

I remember how much fun it was to be a child in the kibbutz.

We're children. We're supposed to be childish.

It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.

Come clean with a child heart Laugh as peaches in the summer wind Let rain on a house roof be a song Let the writing on your face be a smell of apple orchards on late June.

In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.

We all know how to be a child.

When I was a kid my parents used to tell me, "Emo, don't go near the cellar door!" One day when they were away, I went up to the cellar door. And I pushed it and walked through and saw strange, wonderful things, things I had never seen before, like... trees. Grass. Flowers. The sun... that was nice... the sun.

I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who's like a child.

You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.

Don't you ever grow up, it could stay this simple.

Everybody's twelve years old in an apple orchard.

See the world as if for the first time; see it through the eyes of a child, and you will suddenly find that you are free.

Golf got complicated when I had to wear shoes and begin thinking about what I was doing.

Childhood is never troubled with foresight.

Aching familiar in a way that made me wish I was still eight. Eight was before death or divorce or heartbreak. Eight was just eight. Hot dogs and peanut butter, mosquito bites and splinters, bikes and boogie boards. Tangled hair, sunburned shoulders, Judy Blume, in bed by nine thirty.

Don't you think it's sometimes wise not to grow up.