Art Linkletter Quotes

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

Kids are funny.

Children are funny.

I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.

I adore kids. I enjoy everything that they bring to the party. They just say what they think.

I love kids - they're so carefree and always put a smile on my face.

I'm not ashamed to confess that I often note down many of the crazy things my children say.

Inner child, what do you suggest? 'I WANT A TREEHOUSE!' Anything else to add? 'FARTY NOISE UNDER THE ARM!'

Mother said," mocked the king. "Don't be childish." "We're children," Myrcella declared haughtily. "We're supposed to be childish." The Hound laughed. "She has you there.

Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well, I won't do that.

I wish to you sunshine, my dear one, my dear one. And treetops for you to soar past. I wish to you innocence, my child, my child. I pray you don't grow up too fast. Never know pain, my dear one, my dear one. Nor hunger nor fear nor sorrow. Never know war, my child, my child. Remember your hope for tomorrow.

One of the greatest ways to stay young is to have little kids.

The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown.

For a second I was just a kid – a kid who had lived all of his life in the same tiny town. Just a child. Because I knew I would have to live a lot more, suffer a lot more, to ever understand the searing agony in Edward’s eyes.

I thought children were pure and innocent, and that was inherently better.

I trust kids far more than I do adults. Kids give you the honest opinion. They tell the truth.

...and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.

Adults always wonder what to say and how to say it when they're talking to a child. You want to be wise, but all you are is a child yourself in a larger body. Nothing is ever what it seems. The things that you think you know are never certain. I know that now. I wish that I didn't, but I do.

The child is naturally meditative. He is a sort of samadhi; he's coming out of the womb of existence. His life river is yset absolutely fresh, just from the source. He knows the truth, but he does not know that he knows.... His knowledge is not yet aware. It is innocent. It is simply there, as a matter of fact. And he is not separate from his knowledge; he is his knowledge. He has not mind, he has simple being.

In its natural state, the child tells the literal truth because it is too naive to think of anything else. Blurting out the complete truth is considered adorable in the young, right smack up to the moment that the child says, 'Mommy, is this the fat lady you can't stand?

Kids. You gotta love them. I adore children. A little salt, a squeeze of lemon--perfect.

The child ever dwells in the mystery of ageless time,unobscured by the dust of history.

Oh, when I was a kid in show business I was poor. I used to go to orgies to eat the grapes.