Julie Andrews Quotes

We think that play and fairytales belong to childhood - how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time in our life to live without play and fairytales! We give these things other names, to be sure, and feel differently about them, but precisely this is the evidence that they are the same things, for the child too regards play as his work and fairy tales as his truth. The brevity of life ought to preserve us from a pedantic division of life into different stages - as though each brought something new.

Learn to get excited like a child. There is nothing that has more magic than childish excitement.

I don't want to write for adults. I want to write for readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when they read.

You and I who still enjoy fairy tales have less reason to wish actual childhood back. We have kept its pleasures and added some grown-up ones as well.

The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.

I love kids. I was a kid myself, once.

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

Thank you to the children whose innocent words encouraged me.

I do find the sight of small children eating very moving. Watch the way their tiny fingers clamp the cutlery. The exaggeratedly precise way they move cups or glasses to their lips.

To be honest, Peter Pan was one of those fairy tales that I sort of related to, and I think that's the case with a lot of kids. The whole idea of escapism really resonates with a lot of kids.

One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.

Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.

We do not realize what we have on Earth until we leave it.

I'm a little baby in a barrel just taking everything in. I'm just so fortunate to do whatever I'm doing.

Never ever doubt in magic. The purest honest thoughts come from children, ask any child if they believe in magic and they will tell you the truth.

I'm lucky: I have very funny kids.

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

Children are wonderful!

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

To me, kids are the greatest audience and the greatest critics in the world.

Reading 'IT' again as an adult, you understand it from a different perspective. It is basically a love letter to childhood and talks about all of the treasures of that time, like imagination and belief, that are inevitably lost in adulthood.

My kids have really brought me into maturity on another level and I really appreciate them for that.

Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies.