Charles Lamb Quotes

What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child?

Children are the closest we have to wisdom and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.

I want to make things that put me in the position of innocence, that recreate the feeling of innocence in you.

I'm still very much a kid inside myself.

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

I've always felt like a kid, and I still feel like a kid, and I've never had any problem tapping into my childhood, and my kid side.

I remember being with my mum eating marmalade on toast watching 'Inspector Gadget,' 'Sharky and George,' 'The Pink Panther,' and 'Thundercats,' stuff like that. Those were the days - no idea how brutal the world is.

I think the thing that strikes you when you come back to 'The Little Mermaid' after all of these years is the simplicity and innocence. That's in the look of it, and that's in the sound of it.

The more we become able to become a child again, to keep ourselves childlike, the more we can understand that because we love the world and we are open to understanding, to comprehension, that when we kill the child in us, we are no longer.

I'm sure I shall always feel like a child in the wood.

Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.

It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.

Children know something that most people have forgotten.

Lord, give me the heart of a child, and the awesome courage to live it out as an adult.

It's so important and easy to be a kid at heart.

I've never outgrown my childhood.

Adult characters are all the things they've encountered over time. But kids haven't accumulated all the life experience, all the regrets. They tend to be more in the moment, more willing to play, to be joyful.

I'm just a sweet little kid.

Recently, I've really responded to books that bring the magic of childhood back to us as adults.

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

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

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

There's a bit of the kid in me.

I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.

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